Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. AutoNation is one of the largest automotive retailers in the United States, providing vehicles, financing, parts, maintenance, and repair services through a nationwide dealership network. The Senior Manager, Strategy & Operations (Transformation) will help lead an enterprise-wide transformation program by developing business cases, operating models, analytical tools, and execution roadmaps while driving cross-functional initiatives through rollout and value capture. The role also involves preparing executive-level materials and influencing leaders across operations, finance, technology, and product functions.
Responsibilities
- Work cross-functionally to bring workstreams from approved business case through pilot, rollout, and value capture; accountable not for the plan alone, but for the result and its P&L impact
- Develop the financial and operational models, KPIs, and reporting that size the opportunity, quantify impact, and hold every initiative accountable to its targets
- Structure ambiguous problems, translate complex analysis into a single clear point of view, and prepare and deliver Executive Committee- and senior-leadership-level materials with a high bar for accuracy and clarity
- Turn enterprise strategy into clear operating plans, roadmaps, milestones, and owners that teams can actually run with
- Help architect target-state operating models, the processes, roles, workflows, and store-level economics, across priority areas of the transformation agenda
- Bring leaders across operations, finance, and corporate functions to clear decision points, build adoption in the field, resolve the risks and blockers that stall transformation work, and help manage cross-workstream sequencing and reporting so the program stays honest to its numbers and its timeline
Skills
- 7 years of experience across strategy and operations, with a track record of taking cross-functional initiatives from idea to measurable result
- Superb top-down communication and synthesis skills, and track record of building and owning clear, executive-quality materials
- Demonstrated success leading through influence rather than formal hierarchy, building trust across operators, finance, and other functions to deliver enterprise results
- Ability to move from an ambiguous, enterprise-level challenge to a clear execution roadmap autonomously, without waiting to be told how
- Excellent Excel skills and strong financial knowledge, with the judgment to know which analysis actually drives a decision and the discipline to hold initiatives to their numbers
- Tenure at a top-tier management consulting firm with transformation experience is strongly preferred
- Experience in automotive retail, mobility, or multi-brand, multi-unit distributed consumer operations is highly valued
- BS/BA degree in Business, Economics, Finance, Engineering, or a related field
Benefits
- 401k matching
- Insurance plans (health, dental, vision) and maternity benefits
- Associate purchase and discount programs for new and pre-owned vehicles, services, parts, collision, accessories, and AutoGear
- Deals and discounts through YouDecide, a website with offers from top providers and retailers
- Participation in the DRVPNK mission to raise and donate millions of dollars to cancer research and treatment, partnering with cancer charities nationwide
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