Strategy Analyst
•Report directly to the Chief Strategy Officer of a Fortune 200 Company.
•Work directly with the Senior Leadership Team of North America’s leading operator of discount variety stores.
•Bring your perspectives, passions, ideas, and insights… and enhance your leadership skills, while driving real business decisions and results for one of the most innovative companies in the retail space.
•Be a part of the BEST retailer in North America: 15,000+ stores across the Dollar Tree and Family Dollar banners. The most stores of any retailer in North America. $20+ billion in yearly sales. Unprecedented growth at a time when the rest of the retail landscape is struggling.
We are looking for a top performer with outstanding skills and credentials to fill our Strategy Analyst role. This is a high impact, high visibility position reporting directly to our Chief Strategy Officer in helping to set and execute the strategic agenda for Dollar Tree and Family Dollar.
You will be an integral part of our Strategy team which advises the company’s Senior Leadership team and propels the company towards its long term goals by consulting on a variety of critical initiatives related to the customer experience, growth, operational efficiency, competitive insights, and future trends.
Take ownership of major initiatives and partner cross functionally to drive the business across all areas of Dollar Tree and Family Dollar retail (Merchandise, Logistics, Store Operations, Marketing, Real Estate, Human Resources, etc.). Enjoy all the benefits of a top management consultancy, but with unprecedented senior executive exposure, greater avenues to express your perspectives, more input into execution, and direct impact on bottom line results.
After 2-3 years in Strategy, you will have the opportunity to rotate through other functions within Dollar Tree and Family Dollar to get hands-on management experience and continue to propel your career forward.
Dollar Tree continues to grow both organically and through our recent acquisition of Family Dollar. We are now immersed in integrating the two banners consisting of 15,000 stores, 23 distribution centers, and over $20B+ in sales in North America, providing a dynamic and engaging strategy work environment. It’s amazing what Dollar Tree has accomplished in 30 years… with you on our team, imagine where your ideas could take us!
Responsibilities:
•Support strategy initiatives with rigorous analytics, facilitation, hands-on in-store testing of new concepts and opportunities, consumer research, and secondary research. Includes understanding/modeling economics, identifying potential risks and challenges for implementation and prioritizing opportunities.
•Make recommendations after summarizing large groups of data to assist business leaders in making decisions.
•Support the strategy development and integration of Family Dollar
•Analyze company financial and operational performance (e.g., drivers of historical performance, trends over time).
•Identify, prioritize, and initiate process improvements to increase effectiveness of all functions in the business.
•Understand customer behavior and trends.
•Assess market characteristics and trends (e.g., market segment sizes, growth rates, market shares of key competitors and how they are changing over time and why, critical recent developments and sources of competitive advantage).
•Help identify and analyze company platforms for growth.
Minimum Qualifications:
•Undergraduate degree with proven success and analytical abilities (minimum GPA of 3.6)
•Excellent analytical and problem solving skills. Able to generate and evaluate hypotheses.
•Strong written and verbal communication skills.
•Demonstrated initiative, independent thinker and worker.
•Team player in a collaborative environment.
•Detail-oriented. Comfortable working with numerical data and information.
•Deadline oriented. Ability to anticipate and address conflicts, to skillfully negotiate, and deliver great outcomes.
•Advanced skills in Microsoft Office products, especially Excel and PowerPoint.