manager, portfolio strategy & integrated planning

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Job Summary
This role contributes to the success of Starbucks Asia Pacific by serving as analytical and data engine of the AP product & marketing and product innovation team. The role builds and leverages the team’s data ecosystem, synthesizing business, consumer and market insights into actionable short term and long-term growth strategies. This role tracks and measures initiatives to maximize ROI. This role works with cross-functional and international teams to inform, guide and deliver product and marketing initiatives.

Key Responsibilities
I) Regional Portfolio Strategy and Architecture
•    Develop and guide portfolio strategy. optimize planning across the product & marketing team and creating relevant recommendations to drive product roadmap across beverage, merchandise and lobby to drive growth.
•    Category Health and Performance tracking. Monitor category health and identify opportunities for growth and optimization. Project category growth and set targets to achieve business goals.
•    Insights Partnership. Partner with corporate strategy & insights team to define consumer research and leverage learnings for strategy development.
•    Consumer-centric trend analysis. Leverage quantitative and qualitative consumer insights to identify whitespace and protect brand and product relevance.
•    Inform innovation pipeline. Identify trends, competitor insights and local market nuances to inform product development pipeline.

II) Integrated Business Planning & Strategic Operations
•    Planning execution. Operationalize integrated planning for fuller product & marketing teams, connecting product pipelines with master calendar. Ensure teams are aligned to vision and executing to strategy
•    Monitor business performance. Tracking performance vs. plans regularly, and proposing plans to address potential gaps.
•    Manage and update calendars. Collate markets’ calendars, identify opportunities and make recommendations for future initiatives in the regional calendar.
Ensure regional product & marketing calendar is regularly reviewed, updated and socialized with key stakeholders.
•    International alignment. Operationalize processes to streamline planning and coordination with international regions and US. 
•    Reporting & analysis for decision making. Creating actionable reports that leaders and markets can leverage to inform strategies and define necessary actions to be taken 
•    Lead Cross functional projects. Own and manage cross functional AP strategic projects and reporting, to help eliminate silos and drive speed to market 
•    Organizing strategy workshops. Work internal and international stakeholders to design workshops for discussions on performance and informing plans.
•    Center of Excellence best practice sharing. Identify, collect and share best practices to scale successes in AP and with other regions.

Required Skills & Competencies

•    Customer Focus: Tuned in to customer trends and understanding local market dynamics; Adheres to Starbucks values, beliefs and principles during good and bad times
•    Personal Learning: Takes personal responsibility for the continuous learning of new knowledge, skills and experiences
•    Presentation Communications: Ability to put together clear, elegant slides to communicate varied and complex information in an accessible way. Ability to explain complex information in user friendly way and align audience to vision
•    Decision-Making: Makes timely and quality decisions based on a mixture of analysis, wisdom, experience and judgment
•    Interpersonal Savvy: Builds effective relationships with all people; up, down and sideways, inside and outside of Starbucks
•    Results Oriented: Gets results and achieves goal
•    Ability to see beyond the spreadsheet and connect the dots beyond own scope of work
•    Ability to manage raw data
•    Ability to perform statistical, mathematical and financial modeling
 

Our Promise

• Our partner promise: Bridge to a better future
  • Our customer promise: Serve the world's finest coffee with a moment of connection
  • Our farmer promise: Ensure the future of coffee for all
  • Our community promise: Contribute positively
  • Our environmental promise: Give more than we take
  • Our shareholder promise: Generate long-term returns

Let us give you the opportunity to be part of something bigger than yourself. It is time for you #tobeapartner. Apply today!

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