Strategic Planning Lead

• Lead the advancement of enterprise strategic planning efforts and ensure organizational priorities are translated into actionable business initiatives.
• Collaborate with senior and functional leaders to develop and refine strategies and plans that support enterprise priorities while address department-specific objectives, opportunities, and operating needs.
• Lead the continued development and maintenance of the strategic planning framework, including enterprise priorities, market objectives, strategies, functional plans, initiatives, portfolios, and projects.
• Facilitate development and ongoing performance management of the O’Reilly FOCUS plan to ensure alignment between strategy, funding, capacity, execution, and expected business outcomes.
• Lead strategic planning activities across the United States, Canada, and Mexico to drive consistency, visibility, and organizational alignment while allowing for market-specific objectives and priorities
• Partner with executive and senior leaders to continuously improve the processes that support enterprise planning, portfolio prioritization, governance, strategic execution, and value tracking.
• Facilitate enterprise planning and governance forums that promote organizational alignment, clarify tradeoffs, and support effective decision-making.
• Develop reporting, metrics, dashboards, and performance frameworks that provide visibility into strategic outcomes, initiative progress, risks, dependencies, and progress towards enterprise priorities.
• Help maintain the planning tools, data structures, reporting processes, and governance standards used to capture, track, and report strategic planning information across the enterprise.
• Perform strategic analysis that helps leadership evaluate opportunities, assess risk, understand tradeoffs, prioritize work, and make informed decisions.
• Transform complex business information into clear insights, recommendations, executive materials, and decision-support analysis.
• Partner directly with functional leaders to ensure strategic priorities and functional plans are aligned with funding, operational planning, resource capability, timing, and execution capabilities.
• Maintain governance standards that ensure strategic planning and portfolio information remains accurate, consistent, and actionable.
• Help mature enterprise planning capabilities through the continuous improvement of strategic processes, tools, data standards, reporting methods, and operating practices.
• Serve as a subject matter expert for strategic planning, performance measurement, portfolio reporting, and enterprise decision-support practices.
• Serve as a strategic connector across the organization, helping stakeholders work together to advance enterprise priorities, functional strategies, and key initiatives.
• Proactively identify barriers to execution and develop recommendations that strengthen strategic alignment, accountability, and organizational effectiveness.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.

SKILLS/EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE

REQUIRED

• 7+ years of experience in strategic planning, enterprise strategy, portfolio management, business analytics, finance, management consulting, program management, or a related field.
• Experience supporting annual planning, strategic planning cycles, portfolio reviews, governance forums, or business performance management processes.
• Experience working with leaders to define strategic objectives, performance measures, business cases, value tracking, or executive scorecards.
• Experience developing executive-level reporting, dashboards, presentations, and decision-support materials for senior leadership.
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving skills, including experience with KPIs, trend analysis, scenario analysis, prioritization models, and value measurement.
• Ability to synthesize complex information into practical recommendations and compelling executive communications.
• Experience working cross-functionally and influencing leaders and stakeholders without direct authority.
• Strong verbal, written, facilitation, and presentation skills.
• Experience leading cross-functional initiatives, facilitating alignment among diverse stakeholder groups, and influencing outcomes without direct authority.
• Strong organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities with a high degree of ownership, judgment, and follow-through.
• Proficiency with Excel, PowerPoint, and enterprise portfolio, project, reporting, analytics, or business intelligence tools.
• Four-year college degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Analytics, Management, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

DESIRED

• 10+ years of relevant experience in strategic planning, strategy analytics, FP&A, consulting, corporate strategy, transformation, or EPMO/PMO support.
• Master of Business Administration or other relevant advanced degree.
• Proficiency with dashboarding or business intelligence tools such as Domo, Power BI, Tableau, or similar platforms.
• Experience supporting enterprise strategies, departmental strategies, functional roadmaps, demand planning, capacity planning, prioritization frameworks, or portfolio governance.
• Experience supporting, implementing, or serving as a business owner for planning, portfolio management, reporting, workflow, dashboarding, database, or business intelligence tools.
• Background in retail, distribution, automotive aftermarket, supply chain, technology, or other large, multi-site operating environments.
• Experience supporting executive planning cycles, quarterly business reviews, or enterprise governance discussions.