Senior Manager, Operations - Market Expansion

Position Summary...

Role summary:

The Senior Manager, New Market Expansion is a critical role within Data Ventures, responsible for operationalizing market expansion initiatives and ensuring successful launch, readiness, and transition activities across new markets and banners. This role serves as the operational lead for expansion efforts, partnering across Product, Engineering, Data, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Training, Account Management, and Business Development teams to deliver successful market readiness, activation, and scalable growth.

Reporting to the Senior Director of Operations, this role will be responsible for coordinating readiness activities, driving operational development, implementing expansion frameworks, and supporting the successful scaling of global Data Ventures products and capabilities.

The New Markets Expansion team leads market exploration and readiness to support startup scaling and deliver comprehensive expansion outcomes for Data Ventures. Managing multiple operational work streams, the team emphasizes operational planning, resource allocation, and process improvements to boost business efficiency and ensure successful launch integration. Collaborating across functions, they develop innovative solutions aligned with business goals. Committed to operational excellence, the team drives timely execution, continuous learning, and accountability to achieve measurable results, reflected in launch completion, speed to profitability, integration efficiency, and leveraging insights to accelerate future enterprise growth.

• Lead readiness activities across future market expansion opportunities by identifying operational requirements, coordinating launch plans, tracking readiness milestones, managing risks and dependencies, and ensuring successful market readiness and implementation.
• Develop, implement, and improve operational playbooks, governance processes, readiness assessments, launch procedures, and best practices that enable repeatable and scalable market expansion.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to drive business plans, remove obstacles, and meet performance standards.
• Partner with market stakeholders to understand local requirements, coordinate localization efforts, and ensure operational processes appropriately balance global standards with market-specific needs.
• Take feedback to action by incorporating shared global learnings and stakeholder input into operational improvements across future expansion efforts.

• Proven expertise leading complex operations and project management initiatives, multiple work streams, operational transformations, and/or global large-scale organizational change.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret data, identify trends, and develop actionable business recommendations.
• Experience driving process improvements and enhancing business efficiency through innovative solutions.
• Knack for cultivating relationships built on trust, understanding different perspectives, and advocating for partners in a respectful and collaborative manner.
• Excellent communication and conflict resolution abilities to foster productive team environments.
• Consistent comfortability in ambiguous environments and in creating structure, shared accountability, and momentum where needed.
• Commitment to maintaining high standards of integrity and ethical conduct in all business activities.

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