Manager, Strategic Planning and Analysis

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Mexico.

📋 Description

• Oversee annual, multi-year, and scenario-driven strategic planning initiatives.

• Assist leadership in assessing opportunities and establishing enterprise-wide priorities.

• Propose the sequencing of initiatives while balancing growth, risk, resources, feasibility, and capacity.

• Evaluate competing initiatives across various departments, programs, markets, and operations.

• Create portfolio frameworks that compare strategic alignment, impact, cost, risk, feasibility, dependencies, and resource needs.

• Advise on where resources should be increased, decreased, shifted, or postponed.

• Convert research, data, and organizational context into actionable insights.

• Develop strategic scenarios, model potential outcomes, identify implications and dependencies, and present clear options to leadership.

• Coordinate planning efforts across departments, functions, and regions.

• Facilitate discussions with stakeholders and synthesize distributed information into cohesive planning outputs.

• Analyze competitive trends, market changes, customer and partner requirements, industry shifts, emerging risks, and internal performance indicators.

• Identify opportunities and threats, evaluate future scenarios, and suggest strategic responses.

• Assist in determining how budgets, staffing, technology, and operational capacity should align with strategic priorities.

• Assess ROI and resource implications, establish success metrics and strategic KPIs, and recommend corrective measures.

• Create prioritization tools, scoring models, portfolio views, templates, and decision-making frameworks.

• Conduct ad hoc strategic analyses and summarize findings for functional leaders.

• Support evidence-based, enterprise-level, decision-oriented planning efforts.

• Collaborate with teams in Research, Finance, Academic Programs, IT, Career Readiness, International Markets, and others.

• Function as an individual contributor through analysis, influence, facilitation, and cross-functional collaboration rather than direct oversight.

⛳️ Requirements

• Master’s degree preferred in business administration, strategy, economics, public policy, data analytics, or a related field; a bachelor’s degree with significant relevant experience may be considered.

• A minimum of 3–5 years of progressive experience in enterprise planning, strategic planning, portfolio management, business analysis, consulting, institutional planning, market analysis, or a similar analytical strategy position.

• Professional proficiency in written and spoken English at CEFR B2 level or higher.

• Ability to clearly present complex analyses to senior leaders and executive audiences.

• Experience in developing decision frameworks, business cases, prioritization models, portfolio assessments, dashboards, scenario analyses, or executive briefing materials.

• Capability to evaluate trade-offs across strategic value, financial impact, feasibility, risk, timing, resources, and capacity.

• Advanced skills in Excel.

• Comfort with quantitative data, qualitative findings, mixed-method evidence, and incomplete information.

• Strong intercultural communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively with diverse communities and stakeholders.

• Legal authorization to work in Mexico.

• Must reside physically in Mexico City.

• Preferred: experience in higher education, nonprofit strategy, enrollment management, project management and prioritization, program development, or mission-driven organizations.

• Preferred: experience supporting executive leadership, Board preparation, strategic planning cycles, enterprise initiatives, or investment prioritization decisions.

• Preferred: familiarity with technology prioritization, operational improvement, digital transformation, or AI-related investment evaluation.

• Preferred: experience with Power BI, Tableau, or similar data visualization or business intelligence tools.

• Availability to occasionally work outside of standard local business hours.

• Occasional domestic and international travel may be required.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements.

• Support for professional development.

• Work/life balance.

• 13.5 salaries annually.

• Occasional domestic and international travel.