Senior Director Growth Strategy

Enterprise Growth & Planning Process

Orchestrate the quarterly and annual Growth Pyramid planning cycles, converting enterprise priorities into clear growth pathways with milestones and success criteria.

Cook up enterprise-wide inputs into growth pyramid reviews and planning cycles.

Support annual and multi-year planning by aligning the growth agenda to longer-term business plans.

Enterprise Portfolio Management

Own and operate a standardized enterprise growth portfolio management discipline, ensuring all growth initiatives are evaluated and governed using consistent investment cases (e.g., ROI, NPV/IRR, LTV/CAC where applicable).

Establish and enforce stage gates for initiatives (idea → validation → scale), including clear entry/exit criteria and escalation paths.

Track benefits realization against approved business cases to ensure promised value is delivered.

Maintain a single enterprise portfolio view that reflects initiative dependencies, constraints, and sequencing across functions.

Progress Tracking & Risk Escalation

Track progress against growth priorities and surface risks.

Establish cadences for monitoring execution of top growth initiatives ensuring owners are accountable for outcomes.

Facilitate course corrections via data-driven insights.

Cross-Functional Alignment

Facilitate alignment among functional leaders so that Merchandising, Sales, Marketing, Digital, Supply Chain, Stores, and Revenue Management are pulling in the same direction, with fewer conflicting priorities and clearer enterprise trade-offs.

Ensure growth initiatives are launched with clear ownership and alignment across functions.

Drive accountability to standards with appropriate escalation/intervention.

Growth Decision Support

Frame and support enterprise growth trade-offs by enabling explicit, economically grounded choices.

Ensure decisions in growth forums are framed with clear options, impacts, and recommendations.

Structure strategic reviews to focus on choices and implications, not lists of initiatives.

Thought Partnership to SLT

Serve as a trusted strategic advisor to SLT.

Partner with the Market & Competitive Strategy team to translate market, customer, and competitive signals into explicit growth bets and where-to-play / how-to-win choices.

Build an insight-to-decision cadence (monthly signal review feeding Pyramid).

Define, maintain and govern the enterprise growth scorecard.

Establish key metric definitions and connection to P&L impact.