Hybrid Senior Manager – Digital Strategy and Planning

at Acuity

• Job title: Senior Manager – Digital Strategy and Planning
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $104,200 - $187,500 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Atlanta, United States

About the role

• Senior Manager driving digital strategy and planning at Acuity Inc., focusing on technology investments and business outcomes. Leading efforts in strategy, planning, and integration across teams.

Responsibilities

• Provide structure and organization to strategy and planning work that sets and resets the technology investments and priorities.
• Work with the team to establish and run the process, set milestones and artifacts for strategic planning and prioritizing.
• Work with the tech and business teams to align their work and outputs with a common set of deliverables.
• Lead efforts across teams to integrate strategic plans, roadmaps, resource needs, and co-dependencies into top down view of the plans and outcomes.
• Prepare necessary leadership team updates and documents for communicating with the Executive Leadership Team, Board and other critical stakeholders including strategy and budget target reviews
• Create an integrated view of outcomes and value delivered across investments.
• Work with teams to understand differences between forecast and actuals for insight into acceleration and deceleration of value realization
• Work with program and product teams to define outcomes from digital investments and transformation initiatives.
• Develop ROI models and dashboards as needed to help business and IT understand and support value being delivered
• Work with Finance and Tech teams to ensure costs are being properly captured and allocated between program areas, capex and opex.
• Set up the mechanisms to automate the financial processes, reduce manual effort and increase accuracy of the numbers
• Identify key cost drivers and analyze opportunities and risks within categories, e.g., software purchases and renewals, FTE additions and attrition, professional services.
• Work with Finance and tech leaders to help frame in a way that drives clarity on the implications of certain spend decisions ahead of commitments

Requirements

• 10+ years experience in planning and strategy
• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in Business, Technology, or a related field
• Demonstrated ability to influence, drive collaboration and integration across multiple teams and functions
• Self starter, entrepreneurial mindset
• Experience with value capture, ROI measurement, KPI tracking and reporting

Benefits

• health care
• dental coverage
• vision plans
• 401K benefits
• commissions/incentive compensation depending on the role