Senior Director, Strategy & Business Development

About Old Navy

Forget what you know about old-school industry rules. When you work at Old Navy, you're choosing a different path. From day one, we've been on a mission to democratize fashion and make shopping fun again. Our teams make style accessible to everyone, creating high-quality, must-have fashion essentials for the whole family, with love, season after season.

We opened our first store in 1994 in San Francisco and have been on a roll ever since. We cultivate a community of playful personalities that thrive in a fast-paced environment where our employees can be their most authentic selves. Here, we're family.

What you'll do

• Lead business development projects that enable brand growth across all markets and channels
• Work with marketing and merchandising on developing brand and product partnerships with other brands and partners
• Lead business development activities; financial modeling, market due diligence, negotiations, and transaction project management
• Develop market entry models and analyze market entry potential along qualitative and quantitative measures
• Deliver insights and packaging findings into executive-ready content
• Drive the development of Old Navy's growth strategy, including overseeing quantitative and qualitative analyses (e.g., market and competitor assessments, financial performance analysis) and leading and partnering with cross-functional business partners
• Lead strategic projects that support revenue and cost management for our international markets by:
  • Price architecture recommendations through competitor benchmarking, consumer insights, internal data analytics and financial modeling
  • Identifying key issues and developing hypotheses
  • Performing quantitative and qualitative analysis, including competitor benchmarking and financial modeling
  • Partnering closely with cross-functional teams to review analysis and determine next steps
  • Synthesizing findings, and preparing presentations that communicate action itemsecommendations to senior management and leadership team
  • Developing and managing work plans
• Serve as a thought leader and liaison with business partner inside Old Navy's Outlet and International markets, and across Gap Inc., proactively identifying and communicating business issues and sharing best practices across brands
• Support business critical strategy projects including:
  • Creation of Long-Range Plans across brands through research, analysis and close collaboration with teams
  • Process improvement initiatives through analysis of current state and development of recommendations for future improvement
  • Identify new data or analytic capabilities that can support teams in improved decision making
  • Anticipate roadblocks and proactively address issues before they impact business results
  • Proactively foster cross functional relationships to collaborate or gain buy-in on analyses and process recommendations

Who you are

• Demonstrated track record as an outstanding problem-solver and strategic thinker
  • Able to quickly identify key issues and develop hypothesis
  • Able to work in and bring structure to ambiguous environments
  • Very strong analytic and financial modeling skills, with deep understanding of how to link strategy to financial plans
  • Able to synthesize disperse information into effective strategies and innovative insights, translating complex ideas into simple, actionable recommendations
  • Very strong written and oral communicator with proven ability to communicate with senior executives
• Strong retail business acumen
  • Demonstrated understanding of retail and consumer-facing businesses
  • Able to assess impact of decisions on overall business
• Excellent interpersonal and people leadership skills
  • Able to collaborate effectively using broad range of influence styles to drive desired results; works well with others and is considered a true team player
  • Proven experience in leading teams (that might include senior leaders) including providing direction, understanding resource capability and successfully driving results working with internal or external resources
  • Strong executive presence and command skills
  • Able to identify barriers to successful implementation and capable of working with teams/leaders to mitigate barriers
  • Approaches conflicts as opportunities; understands others quickly; can find common ground without comprising total position
• Very strong project and process management skills, including ability to independently disaggregate problems into defined workplans
• Able to effectively juggle multiple projects at one time
• Demonstrated initiative and ability to work independently and to manage cross-functional business partners who are not direct line reports
• Experienced leader with a proven track record of successfully leading teams
• 10+ years of professional work experience, preferably within strategic management consulting, retail, consumer products, and/or investment banking
• Strong interest in knowledge of retail industry, preferably with some experience in apparel
• MBA required

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Benefits at Old Navy

• Merchandise discount for our brands: 50% off regular-priced merchandise at Old Navy, Gap, Banana Republic and Athleta, and 30% off at Outlet for all employees.
• One of the most competitive Paid Time Off plans in the industry.*
• Employees can take up to five "on the clock" hours each month to volunteer at a charity of their choice.*
• Extensive 401(k) plan with company matching for contributions up to four percent of an employee's base pay.*
• Employee stock purchase plan.*
• Medical, dental, vision and life insurance.*
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*For eligible employees

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