Manager Corporate Strategy

OVERVIEW

Live the
experience
. From professional empowerment to continual learning opportunities. From ongoing investment in our strategic initiatives to a career of self-determination. At Ulta Beauty, our team is critical to our scalability—and is recognized that way. We’ve been defined as a “mature start‑up.” A place where interdepartmental exposure, open doors, and genuine collaboration is ubiquitous. Where challenges come fast and furious, requiring agility, mental dexterity, and creativity.

Where our passion for better solutions
drives us and is core to who we are.

We’re engineering for the future of retail, and it’s no‑holds‑barred. But for those motivated by continual change and ambiguity, by superior leadership, by whip smart colleagues who will press you daily for your very best, you’ll find that virtually nothing’s impossible at Ulta Beauty.

The Corporate Strategy team is responsible for developing the enterprise strategy and long-term vision for Ulta and identifying, evaluating and executing new growth opportunities and strategic initiatives.

The Manager, Corporate Strategy will be responsible for working with the team to lead targeted strategic efforts with enterprise and functional leaders. These efforts will include driving the long-term and annual strategic planning processes, supporting problem solving and opportunity evaluation, performing strategic and financial analysis, visioning and creating business cases and executing efforts to develop high potential strategic opportunities with excellence.

Because the work involves close partnership with cross‑functional leaders, this individual will also support facilitation and alignment to key strategic decisions and serve as a thought partner to leadership at a senior level, including the C-suite. Further, the individual in this role should have strong ability to structure problems and be comfortable developing approaches to frame ambiguous business issues. This individual will also drive the beauty market assessment and / or competitive intelligence for the enterprise, including supporting structuring and execution of the comprehensive monitoring and codification of the competitive landscape, tracking and forecasting the beauty market, and assessing dynamics and shifts in competitors’ strategies, connecting it back to our enterprise strategy.

This individual will blend strong analytical capabilities with a strategic mindset and the drive to deliver impact with excellence.

* Position is located at corporate offices in Bolingbrook, IL (Hybrid work schedule - approx. 6 days in office per month)

• Support the long-term and annual strategic planning processes with the Corporate Strategy team, including building the enterprise long-term strategy and new growth opportunities
• Collaborate with Corporate Strategy, Finance, and Investor Relations to translate our long-term strategy and build our investor narrative for Investor Day
• Structure problems and develop frameworks and approaches to address complex, cross‑functional and ambiguous business issues
• Work with cross‑functional teams including Retail Ops, Digital, Merchandising Strategy and others, on initiatives to assess strategic opportunities, leveraging strategic, analytical, and financial frameworks
• Support market and competitive intelligence for both the enterprise and specific functional areas – bring an analytical mindset to strengthen our understanding of the market and competitive landscape through data‑driven and forward‑looking insights
• Develop Board and executive level presentations articulating Ulta Beauty’s strategy and growth opportunities and facilitate Executive Team workshops on strategic topics
• Define and bring forward creative, out‑of‑the‑box thinking to identify white space opportunities for new growth – assess and articulate the strategic rationale, grounded in data‑driven insights, in support of enterprise‑wide strategic plan
• Work and expand network and reach cross‑functionally to identify strategic priorities throughout the organization
• Excel in all areas of strategy development at the Manager level, including problem…