Senior Manager, Marketplace Strategic Initiatives

What you’ll do…

Senior Manager, Marketplace Strategic Initiatives

850 Cherry Avenue, San Bruno, CA 94066

Present to and influence team members, customers, and clients, conveying complex information clearly and accurately and addressing ambiguity in a constructive manner; assemble and prepare reports, materials, and storylines that have a structure and logical flow and are based on relevant, fact‑based information; seek and provide constructive feedback, anticipate needs/questions, and respond appropriately. Build, maintain, and enhance internal and external partnerships;

identify and address additional partner needs and educate them on value creation; communicate with other individuals or teams to solve shared problems; identify how changes in business strategy impact talent and recruiting strategies; and consult regularly with leaders of business unit(s) to advise on strategic decisions. Provide recommendations to business stakeholders to solve business issues; develop business cases for projects with a projected return on investment or cost savings;

demonstrate functional knowledge of the business unit/organization being supported; translate business requirements into projects, activities, and tasks and align to the overall business strategy; recommend new processes and ways of working; partner with internal and external stakeholders to identify and assess strategy choices; provide advice and support to improve business and financial understanding and awareness within the business; monitor, analyze, and translate data to provide information and evidence to support business strategies and requirements;

explain financial management reports; analyze the varying approaches to expense and budget management. Leverage data analysis tools; develop and test hypotheses; use data to influence work; build and present insights; identify, implement, and drive technology change within scope of work; use visualization tools to represent data and construct stories to influence decisions; use customer analytics for forecasting purposes; maintain and organize all customer analytics portfolio‑related data;

interpret customer analytics results and present findings to management; participate in the deployment of web‑based surveys used to collect customer data; create business analysis reports from customer analytics data extracts; maintain and organize all business portfolio‑related data; document performance criteria used for evaluating business trends and activities; research business‑related data and generate and interpret basic analytics; assist in preparing charts, graphs, tables, and other tools to reflect business performance.

Prepare annual baseline plan budgets, broken down by time period, task, and cost account; use schedules to prepare cash flow forecasts for projects based on completion status of different project milestones; create reports on the progress of project schedules, costs, and scopes; compare present status to baselines and forecast future trends using earned value analyses; use statistical methods to develop project cost and time estimate ranges quantified by risk probabilities and confidence levels;

track risks and change risk items over the course of projects according to the risk management plans. Understand financials and how product pricing can impact financials; research company history and experience with retail markets and channels; document retail activities and issues related to major trends and directions; discuss existing and planned retail approaches for assigned area of specialization; cite sources of information;

explain rationales for major initiatives. Identify revenue generation opportunities and plans, make recommendations, and execute for less‑complex categories; ensure delivery against business goals by identifying potential risks to the business; supports recommendations around category strategic approaches; make recommendations on best practices and process improvements. This position does not supervise employees.

Master’s degree or the equivalent in Business Administration, Engineering…