Strategy Manager

Job Description

Job Description

About Us

Ambercycle is a startup revolutionizing fashion by transforming end-of-life textiles into high-quality yarns and fabrics—without relying on petroleum or new agricultural inputs. Our first product, cycora® , is a premium material with a significantly lower environmental footprint. We’re currently scaling production with a new plant in Asia. Using our technology, we are fundamentally changing the fashion industry and building the infinite textile ecosystem. For more information, visit www.ambercycle.com and @cycora.la on IG.

The Job

We’re looking for a Strategy Manager who will partner with senior leadership on the development and implementation of Ambercycle’s strategy, annual operating plans, and guide department heads toward making decisions that maximize achievement of operational goals. In this role, you will utilize your expertise and knowledge to develop, implement, and communicate strategy, create execution plans, gather data on the effectiveness of these strategies, and continually iterate and refine. You will help improve daily functions, build processes based on business goals, and measure the efficiency of these processes.

What You'll Do

• Assist the C-suite in developing comprehensive company strategies.
• Support leadership in business development planning and tracking, which includesaligning priority clients and offerings.
• Work with Business Operations Manager to create a live market and pricing intel hub that tracks competitor moves, brand procurement trends, feedstock signals, and projects gross margin across markets and seasonality.
• Develop a perspective on the future gross margin position based on cost reduction initiatives.
• Devise communication plans and investor-ready storytelling that translate complex operations, cost curves, and TAM data into decisive storylines.
• Synthesize clear takeaways from complex information and make strategic recommendations using both qualitative and quantitative methods.
• Create financial models, make strategic financial recommendations, capture value, etc.
• Structure and solve ambiguous issues within sales, partnerships, and supply chain.
• Manage and contribute to due diligence processes.
• Manage budget justification and reporting tools to create a finance-approved framework tying brand activations to pay-back horizons and ROIC through automated dashboards.
• Design implementation plans and leadspecific initiatives.
• Collaborate on high-level strategic questions, providing data-backed trade-offs and hypothesis-driven solutions.

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

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Ambercycle is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Ambercycle is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin / ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status. We celebrate diversity and are committed to building a team aligned with our mission to regenerate the resources of our planet.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.