Senior Strategy Analyst

Job Description

Job Description

With over 58 stores and the largest avocational cooking program in the US, Sur La Table offers an unsurpassed selection of exclusive and premium-quality goods for the kitchen and table – and the culinary expertise and inspiration to go along with it. Whether the job entails interacting with our customers, driving digital growth, or providing vital behind-the-scenes support, we’re all here for the same reason – to roll up our sleeves and create happiness through cooking and sharing good food.

This role offers a unique opportunity for the right strategist to drive an outsized impact across a company that is poised for significant growth over the next 3 years. Reporting into Sur La Table’s Head of Strategy & AI Transformation, this is a highly visible role within the organization. You’ll work closely to not only help shape the strategic direction of the company but also roll up your sleeves and bring it to life. This role is challenging as you will wear many hats and touch every part of our business so you will need to be scrappy, agile and able to work cross-functionally, but the role also promises to be highly rewarding for a strong performer who is looking to take the next jump in their career.

This role is challenging – above and beyond the day-to-day responsibilities, you’ll have a big role within a fast-paced team.

This position will report into the  VP of Strategy & AI Transformation

What you get to do :

• LRP & AOP : Partner with Head of Strategy, President, CFO, and Leadership Team to develop our Long-Range Plan and Annual Operating Plan, including ensuring Tech and AI Roadmaps are aligned to strategy, then track and monitor in year progress against core initiatives and KPIs
• Real Estate : Help support the development of our multi-year Real Estate strategy based on analytical rigor, customer insights, and our brand position. Help track real estate pipeline / lease renewals by working closely with our RE consultant and broker, partnering with Finance to develop new lease proformas, reviewing lease terms, and leading communications / handover with construction / store ops team
• Functional Strategy Support : Partner with Functions to drive strategic / analytical rigor (e.g., Merchandising category-level LRPs, Store Ops P&L dashboarding, Digital customer journey)
• Services : Partner cross-functionally to help drive growth strategy and execution roadmap for expanding our service offerings (cooking classes, knife sharpening, registry, etc.)
• Business Intelligence : Support critical business decisions by building business cases, analyzing company / customer / external data, assessing consumer insights and competitive benchmarks, building key decision dashboards
• GTM : Help support the go-to-market process by identifying key consumer, competitive, vendor, and market trends, and translating the insights into implications and recommendations
• President & Leadership Team Support : Help enhance the effectiveness / efficiency of the President and Leadership Team through ad hoc support on various initiatives and efforts (e.g., development of board decks, partnership presentations, townhall materials, survey analysis, project and process management, etc.)

What you bring :

What’s in it for you?

Our interview process :

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