strategic market planning manager

Strategic Market Planning Manager (Hybrid - Toronto & Vancouver)

Now Brewing - Strategic Market Planning Manager ! #tobeapartner

From the beginning, Starbucks set out to be a different kind of company. One that not only celebrated coffee and the rich tradition, but that also brought a feeling of connection.

The Market Planning Manager partners closely with regional Store Development and Store Operations leaders to evolve and grow the Starbucks store portfolio. This role is a unique opportunity to serve as a strategic consultant and influence real estate and reinvestment plans. Key workstreams include growth strategy, retail analysis, portfolio planning, and strategic initiative support.

Successful candidates are self-motivated, detail-oriented, organized, and have a growth mindset. The role requires strong analytical capabilities across financial, real estate, and macro-economic domains to synthesize actionable insights that inform the collective plan.

As a strategic market planning manager, you will:

• Contribute to the creation, development, and prioritization of growth strategies, plans, and goals.

• Provide research, quantitative analysis, and modeling to analyze current and potential opportunities, business plans, competition, and performance.

• Support planning and deployment of Starbucks key strategies across real estate, trade area optimization, new store growth, store relocations, and store concept optimization.

• Utilize data to guide Starbucks leaders in crucial network optimization and store format decisions.

• Research and develop strategic recommendations to create critical value to clients, markets, business units and the company.

• Apply analytical methods to quantify threats and to identify opportunities to increase market share and/or identify organic growth opportunities.

• Lead cross-functional teams through ambiguity by integrating data, cross-functional expertise, and prior learnings to navigate constantly changing market dynamics.

We'd love to hear from people with:

• Analytic skills: Ability to think objectively and interpret meaningful themes from quantitative and qualitative data

• Collaboration skills : Ability to build constructive and effective relationships with a broad and diverse group of business partners

• Influencing & negotiation skills : Can present ideas and directions that lead others to action

• Presentation skills : Effective in a variety of presentation settings including one-on-one, small, and large groups, and with peers and managers.

• Financial and business acumen : Ability to evaluate financial and business indicators and translate data into actionable information to drive results; proficiency in retail math

• Systems and tools acumen : Proficiency in geographic information systems (ArcGIS), Tableau, Power BI, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, and aptitude to learn technical applications quickly

• MBA or other master's degree preferred

• Experience in statistics, modeling, business intelligence and spatial analytics.

• Ability to travel outside of home province 10%-15% of the time

From free coffee to competitive pay, Starbucks is proud to offer a comprehensive compensation and benefits package to our eligible part-time and full-time partners. Benefits include tuition reimbursement, health coverage with a variety of plans to choose from, and stock & savings programs like our Future Savings plan and Bean Stock. What's more, Starbucks offers flexible scheduling and opportunities for paid time off. Visit ~~~ for details.

If you live in the greater Toronto or Vancouver area , we offer a flexible workplace that allows for hybrid work. Partners can work remotely up to two days per week.

Join us and inspire with every cup. Apply today!

At Starbucks, one of our values is to create a culture of warmth and belonging, where we treat each other with dignity and care in a diverse and welcoming workplace. We believe that enables us to better meet our mission and values while serving our customers from diverse communities.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national or ethnic origin, colour, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital status, family status, genetic characteristics, disability, or language and any other factor protected by applicable law.

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