Global Fulfillment Strategy Manager

lululemon is an innovative performance apparel company for yoga, running, training, and other athletic pursuits. Setting the bar in technical fabrics and functional design, we create transformational products and experiences that support people in moving, growing, connecting, and being well. We owe our success to our innovative product, emphasis on stores, commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we make in every community we're in.

As a company, we focus on creating positive change to build a healthier, thriving future. In particular, that includes creating an equitable, inclusive and growth-focused environment for our people.

The Global Fulfillment Strategy team serves as the strategic engine for lululemon's Global Fulfillment organization - lean by design, operating with high impact across a broad mandate through analytical excellence, structured thinking, and strong cross-functional partnerships.

The Strategy Manager is a core member of lululemon's Global Fulfillment Strategy team, responsible for both the analytical rigor and strategic execution that underpin fulfillment strategy and network investment decisions across the Global Fulfillment portfolio. This role operates across the full spectrum of the team’s mandate - from building and maintaining quantitative models that inform long-range network decisions, to developing executive-ready strategic deliverables and coordinating across a complex set of cross-functional partners.

The Strategy Manager works within defined work streams set by the Manager, bringing both analytical precision and structured thinking to high-visibility work that regularly reaches VP+ audiences across the enterprise.

functional strategy program

• Support the development, coordination and maintenance of functional strategies across the Global Fulfillment portfolio, working in partnership with strategic partners and leaders across capability and regional functions.
• Lead Functional Strategy program for 2-3 assigned fulfillment capability and/or regional functions - tracking progress, consolidating inputs, facilitating workshops and generating executive deliverables for leadership.
• Synthesize functional strategy outputs into portfolio-level summaries and cross-functional themes to define the enterprise’s Global Fulfillment Strategy.

long-range network strategy

• Build and maintain network and capacity models to support long-range network strategy, scenario analysis, and investment evaluation across global distribution network.
• Develop quantitative frameworks to assess trade-offs across owned DC, 3PL, and hybrid fulfillment configurations - including storage capacity, throughput, and cost-to-serve dimensions.
• Support ad-hoc Network Strategy work streams with modeling updates, scenario analyses and strategic recommendations as network size and complexity scales.
• Gather and interpret the enterprise’s long-range growth and demand plans by market, channel and product category to assess implications for Global Fulfillment’s capability and regional fulfillment functions.

strategic discovery & business case development

• Develop financial and cost-benefit modeling to support business case development for new and continuing Global Fulfillment strategic initiatives.
• Generate business cases for strategic initiatives - illustrating Cap Ex, OpEx, and Cost Savings - to secure leadership approval, prioritization and funding as part of Annual Operating Plan (AOP) and in-year portfolio budgeting processes.
• Responsible for ensuring that strategic initiatives are clearly defined, aligned, and appropriately prioritized to effectively support Global Fulfillment’s multi-year portfolio and functional strategy.
• Partner with Portfolio…