Manager, Corporate Strategy

CarMax, Inc.

$102K — $163K *
Business Services
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Proven strategic thinking with demonstrated leadership skills
  • Strong ability to translate business objectives into actionable plans
  • Skilled in analyzing qualitative and quantitative data for decision-making
  • At least four years in an analytical role with strategy formulation experience
  • Competence in Excel and PowerPoint, SQL experience preferred
  • Ability to manage multiple projects while achieving results
  • Excellent communication skills for influencing at all organizational levels

Responsibilities

  • Lead sessions to identify new initiatives and maintain a strategic roadmap
  • Collaborate with functional experts to develop solutions
  • Define test plans to assess initiative interdependencies and performance metrics
  • Analyze test results to identify enhancement opportunities
  • Determine readiness for market expansion of initiatives
  • Maintain executive communication strategy on strategic initiatives and business performance

Benefits

  • Accrue up to 48 hours of sick time annually and between 80 to 200 hours of vacation based on service
  • Eligible for 8 hours of pay for 6 paid holidays plus one floating holiday
  • Unlimited paid time off for full-time salaried employees, subject to manager approval
  • Consideration for reasonable accommodations during the application process
Full Job Description
8116 - Midtown Office - 2220 W. Broad Street, Richmond, Virginia, 23220

Essential Responsibilities

As a Manager of Corporate Strategy, you will work with the CarMax leadership to help shape the company's strategy within our Product and Operational departments. You will ensure success in those departments by:

  • Identifying opportunities across the organization by periodically leading sessions to identify potential new initiatives for development, and developing and maintaining a roadmap of new initiatives and tests for development that roll up to our long-range Strategic Plan
  • Supporting the development of solutions in partnership with our functional experts in each area
  • Defining the test plan to understand interdependencies between tests, the sequencing of testing, and identifying key performance metrics
  • Conducting test analysis to understand performance and identifying opportunities to further enhance the initiative
  • Determining when ready for market expansion
  • Maintaining a communication strategy to inform all executives on results from strategic initiatives as well as overall business performance


Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
  • Track record of strategic thinking and proven thought leadership
  • Ability to convert high-level business objectives into concrete action plans and analytical tasks
  • Ability to assimilate numerous qualitative and quantitative inputs in the face of ambiguity and drill down to a good decision
  • Proven leadership and management skills
  • Ability to develop and execute a plan with high degree of independence
  • Ability to deliver great results while simultaneously managing several projects
  • Ability to organize and prioritize work effectively, and manage your time to meet goals/objectives
  • Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
  • Ability to motivate and influence across all levels of the organization Ability to communicate in a clear and concise manner through verbal and written methods
  • Demonstrated success in analytical decision making
  • Ability to apply business and technical knowledge to solve key business problems

Requirements:
  • Completion of a four-year undergraduate degree in a business or quantitative discipline with an excellent academic record; Graduate degree a plus but not required
  • Four or more years of experience in an analytical role
  • Experience with strategy formulation, articulation, and implementation
  • Experience with advanced analytics and modeling preferred
  • Computer skills: Excel, PowerPoint; SQL experience preferred


Work Location and Arrangement: This role will be based out of the CarMax Midtown Office (Richmond, VA) and associates will work onsite 4 days per week.

Work Authorization: Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. Sponsorship will not be considered for this specific role

The annual salary for this position is:
$102,100.00 - $163,400.00
May be eligible for bonus and equity.

Benefits:

Except as otherwise required by state law, CarMax Associates are entitled to the following paid sick, vacation, and holiday time.

Associates that are considered full-time hourly or commission/incentive eligible:
  • To earn up to 48 hours of sick time per year accrued on a per pay period basis and between 80 hours and 200 hours per year of vacation time after a 90 day waiting period depending on years of continuous service with the Company.
  • For 8 hours of pay for each of a total of 6 paid scheduled holidays per year plus 1 floating holiday. If such an Associate does work on a scheduled holiday due to business need, they are eligible for Holiday Premium Pay.


Associates considered full-time salaried are entitled to paid time away with no specified limit as needed for sick, vacation, bereavement, jury duty, holidays, floating holiday, etc. subject to manager approval.

For more details about benefits, please visit our CarMax Benefits website.

Upon an applicant's request, CarMax will consider reasonable accommodation to complete the CarMax Job Application.

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