Strategic Planning Lead — Data-Driven, Cross-Region Focus

O'Reilly Auto Parts; Springfield (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive wages

401k with employer contributions

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Tuition assistance

Career growth

Job summary

O'Reilly Auto Parts is seeking a Strategic Planning Lead to own and advance the company-wide planning framework across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. You will partner with executive leadership to translate priorities into actionable initiatives, with governance, reporting, and analytics driving informed decisions.

The role requires an analytical mindset, strong communication, and the ability to lead multi-region planning efforts, ensuring alignment with funding, capacity, and execution

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in strategic planning, enterprise strategy, portfolio management, business analytics, finance, management consulting, program management, or a related field.
• Experience supporting annual planning, strategic planning cycles, portfolio reviews, governance forums, or business performance management processes.
• Experience working with leaders to define strategic objectives, performance measures, business cases, value tracking, or executive scorecards.
• Experience developing executive-level reporting, dashboards, presentations, and decision-support materials for senior leadership.
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, including experience with KPIs, trend analysis, scenario analysis, prioritization models, and value measurement.

Responsibilities

• Lead the advancement of enterprise strategic planning efforts and ensure organizational priorities are translated into actionable business initiatives.
• Collaborate with senior and functional leaders to develop and refine strategies and plans that support enterprise priorities while address department-specific objectives, opportunities, and operating needs.
• Lead the continued development and maintenance of the strategic planning framework, including enterprise priorities, market objectives, strategies, functional plans, initiatives, portfolios, and projects.
• Facilitate development and ongoing performance management of the O’Reilly FOCUS plan to ensure alignment between strategy, funding, capacity, execution, and expected business outcomes.
• Lead strategic planning activities across the United States, Canada, and Mexico to drive consistency, visibility, and organizational alignment while allowing for market-specific objectives and priorities.
• Partner with executive and senior leaders to continuously improve the processes that support enterprise planning, portfolio prioritization, governance, strategic execution, and value tracking.
• Facilitate enterprise planning and governance forums that promote organizational alignment, clarify tradeoffs, and support effective decision-making.
• Develop reporting, metrics, dashboards, and performance frameworks that provide visibility into strategic outcomes, initiative progress, risks, dependencies, and progress towards enterprise priorities.
• Help maintain the planning tools, data structures, reporting processes, and governance standards used to capture, track, and report strategic planning information across the enterprise.
• Perform strategic analysis that helps leadership evaluate opportunities, assess risk, understand tradeoffs, prioritize work, and make informed decisions.
• Transform complex business information into clear insights, recommendations, executive materials, and decision-support analysis.
• Partner directly with functional leaders to ensure strategic priorities and functional plans are aligned with funding, operational planning, resource capability, timing, and execution capabilities.
• Maintain governance standards that ensure strategic planning and portfolio information remains accurate, consistent, and actionable.
• Help mature enterprise planning capabilities through the continuous improvement of strategic processes, tools, data standards, reporting methods, and operating practices.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for strategic planning, performance measurement, portfolio reporting, and enterprise decision-support practices.
• Serve as a strategic connector across the organization, helping stakeholders work together to advance enterprise priorities, functional strategies, and key initiatives.
• Proactively identify barriers to execution and develop recommendations that strengthen strategic alignment, accountability, and organizational effectiveness.

Skills

Strategic planning

Portfolio management

Analytics

Executive reporting

Cross-functional collaboration

Excel

PowerPoint

Communication

Problem solving

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Power BI

Job description

O'Reilly Auto Parts is seeking a Strategic Planning Lead to own and advance the company-wide planning framework across the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. You will partner with executive leadership to translate priorities into actionable initiatives, with governance, reporting, and analytics driving informed decisions.

The role requires an analytical mindset, strong communication, and the ability to lead multi-region planning efforts, ensuring alignment with funding, capacity, and execution