Strategic Planner 4

Job Title: Strategic Planner 4
Job Location: Beaverton, OR 97005
Job Duration: 4+ Months (Possibilities of extension)

Company Overview:
Become a part of the Client Inc. team — a company that outfits the world’s best athletes and encourages employees to explore potential, break boundaries, and push the edges of what’s possible. Client thrives on diversity, imagination, and vision. We seek achievers, leaders, and visionaries who bring skills and passion to a constantly evolving game.
 
Job Summary:
The North America Strategy Lead partners with executive leadership to develop and execute the long-term strategy for Client Direct in North America. This role identifies and evaluates critical strategic priorities and drives action plans through business planning processes. The position serves as a key thought partner to senior executives, leading cross-functional teams and spearheading transformational projects across Client’s diverse businesses and geographies.
 
Key Responsibilities:

• Lead Strategic Planning Process: Author strategic plans and collaborate with senior/executive leaders to address complex business challenges.
• Build Integrated Growth Plans: Develop and drive long-term growth strategies to win with athletes and achieve profitable growth. Perform rigorous strategic analysis and present insights to Client Direct leadership.
• Develop Future Strategies: Create frameworks and analyses to explore Client’s largest growth opportunities. Define workstreams and lead projects as the overall quarterback.
• Assess Impact: Diagnose performance results against strategic plans, prioritize future actions, and assist senior leaders in communicating strategies across the organization. Develop KPIs to measure success.

 
Required Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, experience, or training.
• 5+ years in corporate strategy, management consulting, or investment banking.
• Experience in apparel/footwear, retail, merchandising, or consumer-facing industries, with strong understanding of the competitive retail marketplace.
• Proven success leading complex strategic projects using a methodical problem-solving process: analyzing problems, gathering information, generating options, and implementing solutions.
• Track record of cross-functional leadership with diverse teams.
• Strong business communication skills including verbal/written storytelling to promote understanding and mobilize change.
• Proficient in presentation tools such as Keynote.
• Bias toward action and comfort working in ambiguous, complex environments.
• Superior interpersonal and relationship-building skills.
• Curious mindset with a growth orientation.