Altria Group, Inc

Senior Manager, Growth Strategy

Altria Group, Inc$120K — $150K *
Retail & Consumer Goods
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting; MBA is a plus.
  • 10+ years in Finance Leadership and Financial Analysis, with 5+ years in CPG innovation.
  • 5+ years of leading a team and developing a high-performance cross-functional organization.
  • Strong financial proficiency with P&L accountability and financial scenario modeling experience.
  • Experience in consumer brands focusing on innovation that disrupts or builds categories.
  • Experience with financial analysis across various business model types.
  • Hands-on experience with Agile innovation and navigating ambiguity.

Responsibilities

  • Support innovation strategy development for long-term growth plans.
  • Lead portfolio performance tracking and maintain project health dashboards.
  • Develop financial cases and benchmarks for competitiveness.
  • Collaborate on financial modeling with cross-functional teams.
  • Assess financial feasibility with Product Development and Commercial teams.
  • Develop demand forecasts in collaboration with Marketing.
  • Support seamless stage-gate transitions to operating companies.

Benefits

  • Remote work flexibility.
  • Collaboration with high-performance teams.
  • Access to market insights for informed decision-making.
Full Job Description
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Work Model: Remote

Company: Altria Client Services

State/Province: Virginia

Job Description:

We are seeking a Growth Strategy Senior Manager in Richmond, VA to join our FEI Commercial team, but are open to a remote work arrangement. This position will play a substantial role supporting the Growth Leader and Growth Commercial Leader. This role focuses on building a robust innovation portfolio developed to support sustained growth objectives. Guide Pod teams through key decisions, develop cases, define success criteria, and assess risks.

What you will be doing:

  • Supporting innovation strategy development: Contributing to company planning, including financial goals aligned to long-term growth plans.
  • Leading portfolio performance tracking: Maintaining and presenting dashboards that provide access to project health, portfolio strength, and organizational priorities for leadership.
  • Developing cases and benchmarks: Building and updating project arguments and success benchmarks to ensure concepts are financially viable and competitive.
  • Collaborating on financial modeling and assumptions: Partnering across Pod teams and go-to-market functions to ensure cases reflect key inputs, risks, and assumptions.
  • Assessing financial feasibility: Evaluating BOM, capital, and unit costs with Product Development, Design, Supply Chain, and Commercial teams.
  • Developing demand forecasts: Working with Marketing to model investment required to scale new brands or categories.
  • Modeling distribution strategies: Partnering with go-to-market teams to evaluate commercialization pathways.
  • Supporting stage-gate transitions: Ensuring smooth transitions to operating companies with clear success criteria.
  • Leveraging test market insights: Incorporate incubation market findings into financial models and define key performance metrics.
  • Supporting risk assessment: Help identify and evaluate project risks as new findings emerge.


We want you to have:

  • Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting; MBA is a plus.
  • 10+ years in Finance Leadership and Financial Analysis, with 5+ years in CPG innovation.
  • 5+ years of leading a team and developing a high-performance cross-functional organization with strong communication skills.
  • Strong financial proficiency, ideally with experience owning or having accountability to the P&L and in modeling out financial scenarios.
  • Experience working in consumer brands to design and model innovation that built categories or disrupted categories.
  • Experience conducting financial analysis and case development across various business model types (Make, Partner, License, etc).
  • Experience developing innovation programs and assessing early-stage validation of its projects.
  • Strong ability to guide and coach financial concepts to cross-functional partners and peers of all levels.
  • Hands-on experience with Agile innovation: defining critical questions, testing hypotheses, and making recommendations based on results to strengthen the portfolio and focus limited resources.
  • Experience navigating ambiguity and adapting learning, forecasting, and landscaping as new information emerges.


Compensation and Benefits

Additional Information

About Altria Group, Inc

Altria’s companies have built some of the brands in the world – Marlboro, Copenhagen, Skoal, and Black &? Mild – that today are their respective categories.??? Altria Group owns three premier tobacco companies in the United States.? Philip Morris USA, U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company, and John Middleton have positions in the cigarette, smokeless tobacco, and large machine-made cigar categories. Altria also has a substantial position in the alcohol business with Ste. Michelle Wine Estates and economic interest in SABMiller plc?.

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Learn more about Altria Group, Inc
Size
6,000 employees
Market Cap
$82.4 billion
Industry
Net Income
$4.4 billion
Founded
1985
5 Year Trend
+0.2%
Revenue
$26.1 billion
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