Manager of Corporate Strategy

Job Description

Manager, Corporate Strategy | CarMax

The Tone:
This is a full-time hybrid role at CarMax, located in Richmond, Virginia. CarMax disrupted the auto industry by delivering an honest, transparent, and high-integrity experience, growing to become the nation’s largest retailer of used cars. This role is crucial for shaping the company’s long-term strategy within its Product and Operational departments, ensuring success and driving new initiatives forward. It involves working closely with leadership to identify opportunities, develop solutions, and analyze performance across the organization.

The TL;DR
• Role: Full Time
• Type: Full-time
• Location: Hybrid – Richmond, Virginia, USA
• Pay: $102100–$163400 yearly
• Mission: To shape the company’s strategy within Product and Operational departments, ensuring their success through identifying and developing new initiatives.
• Tech Stack: Excel, PowerPoint, SQL (preferred)

What You’ll Actually Do
• Identify Opportunities: Lead sessions to find potential new initiatives for development and maintain a roadmap of these initiatives and tests that align with the long-range Strategic Plan.
• Develop Solutions: Support the creation of solutions by partnering with functional experts within each relevant area.
• Define Test Plans: Outline test plans, understanding interdependencies between tests, determining the sequence of testing, and identifying key performance metrics.
• Conduct Test Analysis: Analyze test performance to understand outcomes and pinpoint opportunities to further enhance the strategic initiatives.
• Communicate Results: Maintain a clear communication strategy to inform all executives about the results from strategic initiatives and overall business performance.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Completion of a four-year undergraduate degree in a business or quantitative discipline with an excellent academic record, indicating a manager-level career.
• Experience: Four or more years of experience in an analytical role, with demonstrated experience in strategy formulation, articulation, and implementation.
• Skills: Track record of strategic thinking and proven thought leadership, ability to convert high-level business objectives into concrete action plans, demonstrated success in analytical decision making, and excellent interpersonal and communication skills across all organizational levels.
• Bonus: Graduate degree; experience with advanced analytics and modeling; SQL experience.