Manager, Business Strategy

Pay range: USD $102,500.00 - $129,800.00 / Year

Your opportunity

At Schwab, you are empowered to make an impact on your career. Here, innovative thought meets creative problem solving, helping us "challenge the status quo" and transform the finance industry together.

The Business Strategy team within Schwab's Client Service & Support organization enables leaders across the service organization to explore and set strategy, prioritize our investments, understand the perspective of our clients, and tell our strategic story along the way. As a Strategy Manager, you will be charged with delivering thoughtful and insightful contributions across a range of high-stakes strategic results for the service organization. You will work across the Retail organization alongside senior leaders and a hardworking team of strategy and industry veterans who are defining the Schwab of the future.

• Drive direction: Provide thought leadership and drive effective decision making, prioritization, alignment across the organization.

• Perform analysis and develop recommendations: scope and execute analysis, synthesize findings, identify gaps, recommend improvement actions by interpreting complex data sets to uncover trends and insights that drive decision making process and shape business strategies.

• Manage strategy projects: Partner with cross functional teams to drive actions, bring strategy to life and deliver results using strategic frameworks and project management capabilities, driving activation through clarity of recommendations, balancing multiple and potentially conflicting priorities and identifying and managing sophisticated dependencies.

• Influence and communicate: Lead executive level communication and influence cross-functional stakeholders through distillation and synthesis of data to tell a clear and compelling narrative for multiple audiences.

• Oversee strategic business initiatives from ideation through successful execution.

• Bachelor's degree in business or quantitative field that emphasis application of the scientific method such as: Finance, Economics, Math, Statistics, Engineering

• Quantitative and qualitative analytical skills, creativity in problem solving, and attention to detail with 2+ years of experience within general consulting, corporate strategy or an analytical operations function

• Strong team-oriented mindset, able to focus on team-goals and both leverage and contribute to a peer-support team model

• Demonstrated success supporting delivery for concurrent projects

• Proven ability to write clearly, succinctly, and in a manner that appeals to a wide audience

• Confidence dealing with ambiguity in a dynamic and fast paced work environment

• Ability to interpret and analyze data to support decision making

• Personally, and professionally aligned with Schwab's vision and values, and a strong interest in financial services

• Self-motivated and driven, with a relentless pursuit to follow through from start to execution.

• Superior analytical skills, research driven, and attention to detail.

• Structuring complex business problems, validating hypothesis through analysis and telling a compelling story for senior leadership

• Thrive on initiating, building, and cultivating strong authentic relationships inside and outside the group, navigates and activates alignment across organizational silos.

• Hunger to learn about our retail business, our processes, and our rep's needs.

• Working independently to deliver insights in a fast-paced and ever evolving environment

• Base salary + annual bonus
• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and a 4-week sabbatical after 5 years of service
• Paid parental leave and family building benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health, dental, and vision insurance

• 401(k) with company match and Employee stock purchase plan
• Paid time for vacation, volunteering, and 28-day sabbatical after every 5 years of service for eligible positions
• Paid parental leave and family building benefits
• Tuition reimbursement
• Health, dental, and vision insurance