Strategy Manager

Talantir; United States; Hybrid; USD 125,000 - 147,000; Full time

Job summary

CareQuest Institute for Oral Health seeks a Strategy Manager to lead and implement the organization's strategic planning and performance management efforts, aligning initiatives with priorities. The role partners with the Vice President of Strategy to drive cross-functional collaboration, develop measurable goals, and deliver dashboards that track progress and inform executive decisions.

A data-driven, communicative leader is essential.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in strategic consulting, planning, or related roles.
• Experience in enterprise-level planning and measurement processes.
• Ability to align strategy with execution and drive multi-faceted initiatives.
• Strong communication and relationship-building with leadership.
• Nonprofit or mission-driven sector experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and manage annual and multi-year strategic planning processes.
• Collaborate with leaders to ensure cross-functional alignment.
• Provide market analysis and synthesize insights for decisions.
• Create reports and dashboards to communicate strategic progress.
• Support executive leadership with strategy decks and narratives.

Job description

The Strategy Manager will play a pivotal role in managing and executing the strategic vision of the organization. The role is responsible for managing, coordinating, and implementing the organization’s strategic planning and performance management efforts. This position is responsible for managing both the strategic and annual planning processes, fostering cross-team collaboration, and guiding teams in setting measurable goals. The role will also help refine and operationalize a performance measurement framework that ensures alignment between initiatives and strategic priorities.

This role will serve as the strategic and analytical engine for the Vice President of Strategy, ensuring cross functional alignment, clarity, and accountability across the organization to advance the mission.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Planning & Organizational Alignment

• Develop and manage the annual and multi-year strategic planning processes, including all materials for planning activities.
• Collaborate with leadership and coordinate with teams across the organization to ensure alignment and cross-functional collaboration.
• Provide trends, landscape, and market analysis, delivering synthesized insights and recommendations to inform strategic decision making.
• Track, assess, and monitor organizational initiatives, activities, and partnerships for alignment with overall strategy.
• Assist in translating organization’s mission and vision into clear, measurable strategic goals and outcomes.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Initiative Management

• Prepare and facilitate strategy discussions and working sessions with internal team and foster collaboration between teams.
• Serve as a strategic partner and resource for department leaders as they implement their strategic goals and work plans.
• Prepare clear, actionable reports, templates, and dashboards to communicate strategic progress.
• Monitor key strategic projects related to organizational growth and innovation.

Performance Management & Organizational Reporting

• Develop and refine performance metrics and evaluation frameworks to track progress and measure impact of strategic initiatives across Enterprise to ensure accurate tracking and updates across departments.
• Partner with teams to evaluate progress on strategic initiatives and measure outcomes against expected results.
• Prepare regular reporting and insights for executive team, Board, and leadership.

Executive Communications & Leadership Support

• Support executive level leadership activities and major organizational processes, ensuring leaders have timely, accurate information to make decisions
• Prepare high quality presentations, briefings, strategy decks, and narratives for Vice President, Strategy, ELT, Board, and external stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in strategic consulting, planning, or related roles with a record of high performance.
• Proven experience in enterprise-level planning and measurement processes.
• Demonstrated ability to align strategy with execution, ensuring successful outcomes for complex, multi-faceted initiatives.
• Strong analytical, facilitation, and project management skills, with experience working closely with leadership teams.
• Exceptional communication and relationship-building abilities, including ability to create presentations and models.
• Experience in the nonprofit or mission-driven sector preferred.

The target hiring range for this role is $125,205- $147,300 (annually). The starting base salary will be determined based on skills, experience, and other job-related factors. In addition, our total rewards package includes medical, dental, and vision plans; generous time off including PTO, short and long-term disability insurance and a competitive 401(k) savings match including financial planning workshops. See our Careers Page for more information.

The specific statements shown in each section of this description are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements and criteria necessary to successfully perform this position.

In accordance with CareQuest Institute for Oral Health’s Compliance Plan, all employees must conduct CareQuest Institute for Oral Health business and activities in accordance with applicable laws, regulations, professional standards and ethical standards and report potential compliance or ethical issues to CareQuest Institute for Oral Health’s designated Compliance Officer.

CareQuest Institute for Oral Health’s Aff… program affirms our commitment to make reasonable accommodation for known physical or mental limitation of otherwise-qualified individuals with disabilities or special disabled veterans, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business and activities. Please see Human Resources for additional information regarding this program.