Manager Corporate Strategy

Manager, Corporate Strategy (M2)

For more than three decades, Crown Castle has led the way in shared communications infrastructure, delivering profitable solutions by connecting communities, businesses, and people, and enabling each to thrive with reliable access to voice and data in more places, faster than ever before. When you join Crown Castle, you become part of a dynamic team of passionate and collaborative professionals engaging in complex challenges and contributing to projects that shape the future of life and work.

The Manager, Corporate Strategy plays a key role in driving enterprise value creation by helping shape and execute the company's strategic priorities. Reporting to the VP, Chief of Staff, this highly analytical leader will partner with executive leadership to identify and evaluate growth opportunities, improve business performance, develop actionable strategic plans, and track execution against key objectives.

This role serves as an internal consultant across the organization, leading analyses related to organic revenue growth, customer expansion, new product and service opportunities, operational efficiency, cost optimization, competitive positioning, and long-term value creation. The Manager will transform insights into actionable recommendations and work cross-functionally to ensure strategic initiatives are successfully implemented and achieve measurable results.

The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with strong financial and analytical capabilities, executive presence, and the ability to influence leaders across a complex, publicly traded infrastructure business.

Strategy Development & Execution

• Support the development and ongoing refinement of the company's corporate strategy and long-range plans.
• Translate strategic priorities into actionable initiatives, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Partner with business leaders to drive execution of enterprise-wide strategic initiatives and monitor progress against goals.
• Develop business cases and strategic recommendations for executive leadership and senior stakeholders.
• Facilitate strategic planning sessions, annual operating planning activities, and executive strategy reviews.

Growth Strategy

• Identify and evaluate opportunities to accelerate organic growth across existing and emerging markets.
• Assess opportunities to deepen customer relationships, increase share of wallet, and expand utilization of company assets and services.
• Analyze market trends, customer needs, competitive dynamics, and industry developments to identify new growth opportunities.
• Develop recommendations for new products, services, and business models that support long-term revenue growth.
• Conduct market sizing, opportunity assessments, and customer segmentation analyses.

Business Performance & Cost Optimization

• Identify opportunities to improve operating performance, increase efficiency, and reduce costs across the enterprise.
• Lead analyses focused on productivity improvements, process optimization, and resource allocation.
• Develop business cases supporting cost savings initiatives and capital investment decisions.
• Establish measurement frameworks to track financial and operational benefits from strategic initiatives.

Strategic Analysis & Executive Insights

• Conduct complex quantitative and qualitative analyses using financial, operational, customer, and market data.
• Develop executive-level presentations, reports, dashboards, and recommendations for senior leadership and Board-level discussions.
• Evaluate strategic scenarios, risks, and alternatives to support informed decision-making.
• Benchmark company performance against competitors and industry best practices.

Leadership & Talent Development

• Lead, coach, and develop a Senior Strategy Analyst.
• Foster a culture of curiosity, analytical rigor, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Provide guidance on analytical methodologies, financial modeling, and strategic problem-solving approaches.

Qualifications

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Strategy, or related field.
• 6+ years of experience in corporate strategy, management consulting, strategic planning, corporate…