Strategic Growth Manager

Ulta Beauty

Bolingbrook (IL)

Hybrid

USD 103,000 - 140,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Job summary

Ulta Beauty is hiring a Manager, Corporate Strategy to shape long-term growth and enterprise strategy from our Bolingbrook, IL offices. This hybrid role engages with senior leadership and cross-functional teams to structure complex issues, build financial models, and craft compelling narratives for Board-level discussions.

You will develop market insights, frames, and business cases, driving opportunities that align with our enterprise strategy and investor narrative.

Qualifications

6+ years of professional experience in Strategy, Finance or Marketing.
At least 2 years of consulting experience at a top-tier management consulting firm strongly preferred.
BA/BS required and MBA from top-tier program preferred.
Experience in retail or consumer goods preferred.
Strategic mindset with the capability to think broadly, support and facilitate the development and implementation of winning strategies at the enterprise level.
Demonstrated ability to structure and solve ambiguous, complex business problems, developing clear hypotheses, frameworks, and recommendations with limited direction.
Strong financial and business acumen, including experience developing business cases, evaluating growth opportunities, and assessing strategic and financial trade-offs.
Experience developing executive- and Board-level materials, with the ability to synthesize complex analyses into concise, compelling narratives and recommendations.

Responsibilities

Support the long-term and annual strategic planning processes with the Corporate Strategy team, including building the enterprise long-term strategy and new growth opportunities.
Collaborate with Corporate Strategy, Finance, and Investor Relations to translate our long-term strategy and build our investor narrative for Investor Day.
Structure problems and develop frameworks and approaches to address complex, cross-functional and ambiguous business issues.
Work with cross-functional teams including Retail Ops, Digital, Merchandising Strategy and others, on initiatives to assess strategic opportunities, leveraging strategic, analytical, and financial frameworks.
Support market and competitive intelligence for both the enterprise and specific functional areas -- bring an analytical mindset to strengthen our understanding of the market and competitive landscape through data-driven and forward-looking insights.
Develop Board and executive level presentations articulating Ulta Beauty's strategy and growth opportunities and facilitate Executive Team workshops on strategic topics.
Define and bring forward creative, out-of-the-box thinking to identify white space opportunities for new growth -- assess and articulate the strategic rationale, grounded in data-driven insights, in support of enterprise-wide strategic plan.
Work and expand network and reach cross-functionally to identify strategic priorities throughout the organization.
Excel in all areas of strategy development at the Manager level, including problem structuring and solving, business analysis, project management, and verbal and written communication.
Facilitate and support discussions with Ulta's senior leadership, demonstrating subject matter expertise and ability to move work forward effectively.
Connect the dots across the organization to ensure effectiveness of work throughout the enterprise, and understand when to seek guidance.
Understand Ulta Beauty's business and possess a deep understanding of the market in which we operate, as well as key competitors.