Senior Manager, Growth Strategy

Together We Innovate.

Together We Change.
Are you ready to help transform how innovation comes to life? In this role, you'll lead through influence to support the development and execution of innovation strategy and portfolio goals, helping translate ideas into viable, scalable business opportunities.

You'll partner closely with Growth leadership and cross-functional Pod teams to drive focused execution, inform key decisions, and build the financial, strategic, and analytical foundation required to deliver high-quality innovation outcomes!We are seeking aGrowth Strategy Senior Manager in Richmond, VA to join our FEI Commercial team, but are open to a remote work arrangement.

This position will play a substantial role supporting the Growth Leader and Growth Commercial Leader.

This role focuses on building a robust innovation portfolio developed to support sustained growth objectives.

Guide Pod teams through key decisions, develop cases, define success criteria, and assess risks.
What you will be doing:


* Supporting innovation strategy development: Contributing to company planning, including financial goals aligned to long-term growth plans.


* Leading portfolio performance tracking: Maintaining and presenting dashboards that provide access to project health, portfolio strength, and organizational priorities for leadership.


* Developing cases and benchmarks: Building and updating project arguments and success benchmarks to ensure concepts are financially viable and competitive.


* Collaborating on financial modeling and assumptions: Partnering across Pod teams and go-to-market functions to ensure cases reflect key inputs, risks, and assumptions.


* Assessing financial feasibility: Evaluating BOM, capital, and unit costs with Product Development, Design, Supply Chain, and Commercial teams.


* Developing demand forecasts: Working with Marketing to model investment required to scale new brands or categories.


* Modeling distribution strategies: Partnering with go-to-market teams to evaluate commercialization pathways.


* Supporting stage-gate transitions: Ensuring smooth transitions to operating companies with clear success criteria.


* Leveraging test market insights: Incorporate incubation market findings into financial models and define key performance metrics.


* Supporting risk assessment: Help identify and evaluate project risks as new findings emerge.

We want you to have:


* Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting; MBA is a plus.


* 10+ years in Finance Leadership and Financial Analysis, with 5+ years in CPG innovation.


* 5+ years of leading a team and developing a high-performance cross-functional organization with strong communication skills.


* Strong financial proficiency, ideally with experience owning or having accountability to the P&L and in modeling out financial scenarios.


* Experience working in consumer brands to design and model innovation that built categories ...