Strategy & Business Operations Manager

JOB SUMMARYAs a member of our Strategy & Business Operations team, you will lead planning and delivery of high priority projects.  Projects include accelerating new offerings, identifying and fostering new partnerships, streamlining our operating rhythm, and fostering cross-functional collaboration.  The team partners with business and product leaders to drive B-Stock’s strategy, identify opportunities for growth and investment, and drive innovation and best-in-class execution across teams.  

You'll also raise how the team works by applying AI to accelerate research, analysis, and synthesis, building toward more automated approaches to recurring strategy and operations work over time.
This person would report directly to the Vice President of Strategy & Business Operations.

ESSENTIAL JOB DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES Drive end-to-end strategic projects to define and accelerate the company’s top growth priorities

Lead B-Stock’s foray into new segments, offerings, or partnerships leveraging the depth of B-Stock’s data, customer relationships, and network

Develop strategic frameworks to identify market growth opportunities for B-Stock Help business leaders and executives make smart decisions and drive them to implementation by bringing data, analysis, and industry expertise to bear.

Identify and implement AI-enabled workflows and automations within Strategy & Business Operations to compress analysis cycles and scale the team's output

Design and run the operating cadence — planning cycles, business reviews, and cross-functional execution — turning strategy into delivered outcomes, not just recommendations. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS, JOB SKILLS, ABILITIES5+ years in a strategy, consulting, finance, or business-operations role where you personally drove problems from hypothesis to delivered result

You're highly analytical and quantitatively fluent — you bring rigor to decisions and structure ambiguous problems, model in spreadsheets, pressure-test assumptions, and quantify the size of the prize.

You have a bias to impact — you've owned initiatives from strategy through execution and can point to outcomes you shipped

You communicate with clarity and influence — distilling complex analysis into simple, actionable recommendations that help executives make fast, confident decisions

Hands-on experience applying AI tools within analytical or operating workflows to build automations or multi-step processes, and comfort quickly adopting new AI capabilities as they emerge

You have a learning mindset and adapt quickly - we learn new things every day PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS Two-sided marketplace, Retail, Logistics and/or Supply Chain experience

Interest in or exposure to reverse logistics, returns, or the circular economy

Experience taking a new product, segment, or initiative from 0-to-1

MBA or advanced degree from a top program, or equivalent experience The pay rate for this role will range between $110,000 to $150,000, per annum. We consider many factors when determining salary offers, such as the applicant’s work experience, education and training, skills, market data, and internal equity.

EMPLOYEE BENEFITS Competitive compensation packages, including bonus and options

Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits

Paid Time Off, telecommuting, and matching 401(K)
Support for continuing education

Team offsites, social events, and extracurricular activities are a staple Snacks, drinks, and the occasional box of donutsTHE COMPANYB-Stock is the world's largest B2B re-commerce platform, connecting sellers and buyers of returned, trade-in, and overstock inventory. Our customers range from today’s top brands and retailers that want best-in-class inventory resale management to tens of thousands of entrepreneurs looking to purchase…