Senior Manager, Growth Strategy

What You Will Be Doing

• Supporting innovation strategy development: Contributing to company planning, including financial goals aligned to long-term growth plans.
• Maintaining and presenting dashboards that provide access to project health, portfolio strength, and organizational priorities for leadership.
• Developing cases and benchmarks: Building and updating project arguments and success benchmarks to ensure concepts are financially viable and competitive.
• Collaborating on financial modeling and assumptions: Partnering across Pod teams and go-to-market functions to ensure cases reflect key inputs, risks, and assumptions.
• Evaluating financial feasibility: Evaluating BOM, capital, and unit costs with Product Development, Design, Supply Chain, and Commercial teams.
• Developing demand forecasts: Working with Marketing to model investment required to scale new brands or categories.
• Modeling distribution strategies: Partnering with go-to-market teams to evaluate commercialization pathways.
• Supporting stage-gate transitions: Ensuring smooth transitions to operating companies with clear success criteria.
• Leveraging test market insights: Incorporating incubation market findings into financial models and defining key performance metrics.
• Supporting risk assessment: Helping identify and evaluate project risks as new findings emerge.

What You Will Need

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting; MBA is a plus.
• 10+ years in Finance Leadership and Financial Analysis, with 5+ years in CPG innovation.
• 5+ years of leading a team and developing a high-performance cross-functional organization with strong communication skills.
• Strong financial proficiency, ideally with experience owning or having accountability to the P&L and in modeling out financial scenarios.
• Experience working in consumer brands to design and model innovation that built categories or disrupted categories.
• Experience conducting financial analysis and case development across various business model types (Make, Partner, License, etc).
• Experience developing innovation programs and assessing early-stage validation of its projects.
• Strong ability to guide and coach financial concepts to cross-functional partners and peers of all levels.
• Hands-on experience with Agile innovation: defining critical questions, testing hypotheses, and making recommendations based on results to strengthen the portfolio and focus limited resources.
• Experience navigating ambiguity and adapting learning, forecasting, and landscaping as new information emerges.

Compensation and Benefits

• Starting salary range: $132,500.00 - $202,100.00.
• Additional benefits include:
• Flexible and remote options
• 15 days of paid time off, 13 paid holidays, 2 floating holiday days, and a 37.5-hour workweek
• Annual merit increases and performance bonus
• 401(k) matching from day one; plus Deferred Profit Sharing, an annual company contribution in an amount equal to 13%-17% of your base salary
• Student loan repayment assistance, conference attendance, and certification training
• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family
• Paid parental and bonding leave for life’s biggest moments
• Wellness programs that care for your whole well-being at whatever stage you are in your life
• A culture that gives back — paid volunteer days and a shared commitment to making a difference