Internal Strategy Consultant

Position Overview

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Internal Strategy Consultant

The Shaw Industries Group Transformation Management Office (TMO) provides consulting and strategic analysis to the three business unit leaders (Residential, Commercial, and Turf) and the Executive Leadership Team (ELT). The successful consultant will have a strong background in strategic and financial analysis using the Porter’s Five Forces Model and will be asked to conduct environmental scans of our industry and competitors.

The consultant will develop hypotheses, build fact‑bases, identify insights, and help the company convert those insights into action. They will simplify complex topics for broad communication and present ideas and recommendations to the board level. Beyond analytical and business knowledge, the consultant will have a thirst for knowledge, curiosity, and communication skills at all levels.

• Work closely with the three main business unit leaders (Residential, Commercial, and Turf) to identify business needs and analytics required.
• Help build out a 3–5 year strategy document by conducting environmental scans, documenting assumptions, and working with the ELT to transform insights into a well‑defined business plan.
• Maintain appropriate assumptions supporting the strategy document, identify early warning indicators and data sets that would signal that something is not developing as planned, and adjust assumptions as appropriate.
• Highlight changes to leadership.
• Maintain a live fact base for competitors and the market.
• Maintain data feeds from data sources such as FRED, Census Data, and BLS.
• Use this data to support or challenge assumptions and highlight findings to leadership.
• Develop a “point of view” concerning market sizes, Shaw market share, competitor information, and customer buying behavior in conjunction with marketing and consumer‑insights teams.
• Prepare ad‑hoc studies when requested by business units and the ELT.
• Learn the business deeply and be prepared to take leadership roles within the various business units.

• 5 years of experience in a strategic role for a multi‑billion‑dollar company, MBA and/or proven consulting experience with a "top tier" consulting firm (EY, McKinsey, etc.).
• Willingness to move to North Georgia or surrounding communities (Chattanooga, North Atlanta) and be willing to work on site 80% of the time.
• Highly skilled in data analytics and various software programs to analyze data and turn data into insights.
• Proven communication skills with all key leaders of the company, including ELT members.
• Ability to grow into senior leadership positions within the company within 2–3 years.

• Create strategic plans.
• Demonstrate strategic influence.
• Demonstrate customer orientation.
• Lead change.
• Learn continuously – curiosity.
• Deliver compelling communication.

8‑hour non‑rotating shift; hours fall to in‑punch day; observed calendar; shift starts AM.

Shaw Industries is an equal opportunity employer as to all protected groups, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.