Apple

Senior Leader, Worldwide Enterprise Strategy - Retail

Apple$180K — $220K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 15+ years in enterprise strategy, business development, or sales leadership, focused on Retail.
  • Deep understanding of Retail industry trends, technology decision-making, and omnichannel transformation.
  • Experience crafting and executing complex go-to-market strategies involving direct and partner channels.
  • Proficient in the enterprise technology landscape and how Apple products serve business needs.
  • Skilled in market analysis, developing actionable insights, and formulating executive-level recommendations.
  • Ability to engage and influence executive leaders across various roles in organizations.
  • Strong financial acumen in forecasting and investment prioritization.

Responsibilities

  • Develop Apple's global enterprise strategy for the Retail sector.
  • Identify high-value market opportunities to shape strategic initiatives.
  • Lead engagement with the Top 50 global Retail companies to drive platform standardization.
  • Scale market coverage through channel and partner-led motions.
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure a clear and executable Retail strategy.
  • Provide a strong vision for Apple as a trusted enterprise endpoint and experience layer in Retail.
  • Champion digital transformation and operational efficiency within Retail organizations.

Benefits

  • Opportunity to lead strategic initiatives with global impact.
  • Collaborative and innovative work environment with a strong emphasis on teamwork.
  • Access to and influence over cutting-edge Apple technologies and products.
  • Professional development opportunities and potential international travel.
  • Involvement in shaping digital transformation in the Retail industry.
Full Job Description
As Senior Leader, Worldwide Enterprise Strategy for Retail, you will develop and champion Apple's global enterprise strategy for the Retail sector. You will identify the highest-value opportunities across the market, build the strategic playbook for direct and partner-led coverage, and align Apple's cross-functional teams around a clear plan to capture the estimated $24 to $26B annualized hardware revenue opportunity.

You will lead Apple's strategy for directly engaging the Top 50 global Retail companies, driving Apple platform standardization across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. You will also scale coverage across the broader Retail market through channel and partner-led motions, including regional retailers, specialty merchants, and the broader ecosystem of partners, systems integrators, ISVs, and resellers.

This role requires someone who can sit credibly with CIOs, CISOs, COOs, CDOs, and senior business leaders because they have lived the challenges of retail transformation from the inside. You will bring a strong point of view on how Apple can become the trusted enterprise endpoint, frontline experience platform, and secure device identity layer for Retail organizations globally.

You will partner closely with Apple's Industry Leadership, Enterprise Sales, Retail Partner Sales, Product Marketing, Engineering, Finance, and Operations teams to ensure Apple's Retail strategy is clear, executable, and globally scalable.

Minimum Qualifications

15+ years of progressive experience in enterprise strategy, business development, digital transformation, industry leadership, or sales leadership, with significant experience in the Retail sector.

Deep understanding of the Retail industry, including enterprise technology decision-making, omnichannel transformation, store operations, frontline workforce enablement, security, customer experience, and operational scale.

Demonstrated success developing and executing complex go-to-market strategies involving both direct enterprise engagement and indirect channel or partner ecosystems.

Strong understanding of the enterprise technology landscape and the value proposition of Apple platforms, including iPhone, iPad, and Mac, in business environments.

Proven ability to analyze large market datasets, identify strategic opportunities, and translate insights into actionable plans, business cases, and executive-level recommendations.

Experience engaging and influencing senior executives, including CIOs, CISOs, COOs, CDOs, and other business decision-makers.

Strong financial acumen, including experience with revenue forecasting, TAM analysis, business case development, and investment prioritization.

Exceptional leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate effectively across a global matrixed organization.

Experience building and leading cross-functional initiatives without direct reporting authority.

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, ambiguous, and highly collaborative environment with a high degree of autonomy, adaptability, and resilience.

Preferred Qualifications

Experience operating within or directly advising large-scale Retail organizations.

Experience leading digital transformation, enterprise technology modernization, store technology strategy, or omnichannel transformation initiatives.

Strong understanding of partner ecosystems, including systems integrators, resellers, ISVs, and channel-led enterprise motions.

Experience building vertical-specific playbooks, reference architectures, deployment models, partner programs, or lifecycle adoption strategies.

MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred.

Education and Experience

Bachelor's degree required. MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred.

Additional Requirements

Ability to travel domestically and internationally as needed.

About Apple

Apple is a corporation that designs, manufactures, and markets mobile communication and media devices, personal computers, portable digital music players, and sells a variety of related software, services, peripherals, networking solutions, and third-party digital content and applications. Apple provides many products and services, including iPhone; iPad; iPod; Mac; Apple TV; a portfolio of consumer and professional software applications; the iOS and OS X operating systems; iCloud; and accessories, service, and support offerings. It sells its products worldwide through its retail stores, online stores, direct sales force and third-party cellular network carriers, wholesalers, retailers, and value-added resellers to the consumer and also sells third-party iPhone, iPad, Mac and iPod compatible products, including application software and accessories through its online and retail stores. Introduced in 1984, the Macintosh was the first widely sold personal computer with a graphical user interface (GUI). That feature and others such as an improved floppy drive design and a low-cost hard drive that made data retrieval faster helped Apple cultivate a reputation for innovation. Apple was named as the most admired company in the United States in 2008 and in the world from 2008 to 2012 by the Fortune magazine. The company was founded by Steven Paul Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Gerald Wayne on April 1, 1976, and is headquartered in Cupertino, California.

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