Role Specific Information

Job Description

About the Role

As Senior Manager of Strategy, you will be a strategic thought leader, working with cross-functional executives in the development, planning, and prioritization of their resources to support strategic initiatives

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design and execution for a portfolio of initiatives, grounded in internal performance insights and business knowledge, competitive intelligence, macroeconomic trends, and evolving customer behavior  

• Serve as a strategic thought partner to senior and executive leaders, providing data-driven recommendations that shape long-term growth, margin expansion, and operational effectiveness  

• Continuously assess business performance, customer trends, and industry dynamics to inform projections, identify risks and opportunities, and refine strategic direction 

• Translate high-level strategies into clear, actionable roadmaps with defined priorities, measurable KPIs, financial targets, and milestones—bringing structure and clarity to complex and ambiguous challenges  

• Align executive stakeholders around shared objectives, facilitate decision-making, and ensure cross-functional teams work toward common enterprise outcomes  

• Develop robust business cases, analyses, and executive-ready narratives to support investment decisions and strategic trade-offs  

• Partner across all functions to ensure strategies are grounded in operational realities and customer impact 

• Establish governance and tracking mechanisms to monitor progress against strategic initiatives, evaluate performance, and recommend course corrections in response to shifting market conditions  

• Partner with senior executives to translate high-level strategy direction into action

• Foster a high-performing team environment by setting a clear vision, driving accountability, encouraging collaboration, and recognizing strong performance  

• Lead or support additional strategic priorities as business needs evolve 

• Additional tasks may be assigned as necessary 

What Skills You Have

Required

• Bachelor’s Degree

• 8+ years related experience in strategy, finance or related role/responsibility

• Demonstrated strength in strategic thinking, planning, problem solving, analytics and critical thinking

• Management experience leading complex projects with cross-functional teams in a highly collaborative way

• Ability to bring structure and a path forward to ambiguous problems/situations

• Advanced communication skills and ability to influence others

• Experience managing cross-functional projects 

Preferred

• MBA

• Experience in retail or corporate strategy

• Consulting experience

Essential Functions

The requirements listed below are representative of functions you will be required to perform, however you may be required to perform additional functions. Kohl’s may revise this job description from time to time. To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions, absent undue hardship.

• Ability to perform the accountabilities listed in the “What You’ll Do” Section

• Ability to comply with dress code requirements

• Basic math and reading skills, legible handwriting, and basic computer operation

• Ability to maintain prompt and regular attendance and meet scheduling requirements as set by the company

• Ability to learn and comply with all company policies, procedures, standards and guidelines

• Ability to give direction and to receive, understand and proactively respond to direction from leadership and other company personnel

• Ability to work as part of a team and interact effectively and appropriately with others

• Ability to maintain composure and work in a fast paced environment while accomplishing multiple tasks within established timeframes

• Ability to satisfactorily complete company training programs

• Ability to use a personal computer for tasks such as communicating, preparing reports, etc.

• Ability to plan, prioritize and monitor activities across business units

• Ability to complete or oversee the completion of assigned projects in a timely manner