About the Role
In this role you'll work front and center in defining the best path forward for our company. Through rigorous analyses, focus on our customers, creative thinking, and deep partnership with the business, we develop the strategic direction for our portfolio of brands. We are responsible for the definition and evolution of our overall corporate strategy, for identifying organic and inorganic growth opportunities where we can create structural advantage, and for preparing and supporting our C-Level executives for key stakeholders’ meetings. You will be in charge of driving critical projects to advance our priorities, growth, and long-range plans. Your goal is to drive long-term, value creation through deep partnership with leaders and stakeholders across the company.
What You'll Do
- Identify and evaluate key enterprise level growth initiatives to better understand opportunities and serve as a key input to prioritization decisions.
- Activities include: identifying key issues and enablers, structuring problems, developing and delivering on workplans that drive value creation across Gap Inc; performing quantitative and qualitative analysis, including analyzing data, creating financial models, and conducting market and competitive research; synthesizing findings, developing a storyline and the supporting materials to communicate recommendations to Senior Management and Leadership Team
- Lead and support creation of materials for Board Meetings
- Support the overall Strategic Planning Process, including Long Range Planning and Annual Operating Plans
- Support cross functional business partners with analytical insights and problem solving
- Identity and analyze emerging macro level trends
- Build cross functional partnerships and consensus
- Influence strategy for area/team
Who You Are
- Professional work experience, preferably with experience in apparel, retail, management consulting, or private equity
- Demonstrated track record as an outstanding problem solver and strategic thinker with the ability to quickly identify key issues, develop hypotheses and clearly communicate a point of view.
- Ability to work in the details and click up a level to grasp the “big picture”
- Ability to translate complex ideas and dispersed information into simple, actionable recommendations
- Strong analytical skills, with ability to collect, organize and analyze large / complex data sets efficiently and effectively
- Strength in written and oral communication with proven ability to connect with senior executives
- Experience working with AI tools