Principal Strategic Analyst

Summary

Join ecobee's Strategic Analytics team as a leader, reporting to the VP of Strategic Analytics. You will conceptualize and refine the corporate strategy process, support long-range plan development, oversee internal reporting, partner with lines of business for data insights, build business cases, guide a team, and present to senior management. This role requires 5+ years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, or business operations, along with strong business acumen and communication skills. ecobee offers competitive salaries, health benefits, a progressive parental top-up program, flexible hours, and various work environment options (office-based, fully remote, or hybrid). The company fosters a diverse and inclusive workplace with opportunities for professional development.

Requirements

• 5+ years of management consulting, corporate strategy, or business operations experience
• Proficiency in developing strategy (e.g., market identification, market sizing, strategic positioning, playbooks, research, etc.)
• Strong business and financial acumen (e.g., understand P&L levers, ROI, IRR, etc.)
• Critical thinking, with ability to postulate, triangulate, and connect the dots across the business
• Entrepreneurial spirit, balancing the need for both ideation and discipline
• Proven ability to manage multiple stakeholder requirements and input
• Exceptional communicator & consensus-builder
• Experience presenting complicated assessments to senior management
• Collaborative and inclusive personality
• The hired candidate will be required to complete a background and credit check

Responsibilities

• Conceptualize and refine our end-to-end corporate strategy process from mapping competitive spaces / positions, triangulating our addressable markets, managing our strategic framework, and augmenting our business model and long-range plans
• Support the development of our long-range plans, collaborating with both the executive team and our lines of business
• Oversee and own our internal reporting mechanisms, including OKRs, to align teams and drive fulfillment of business mandates
• Be a trusted partner to our lines of business in generating data insights, consumer / market research, product and services evolution, and deepen our understanding of the spaces, players and trends impacting our business
• Build and harden business cases by providing financial and business acumen support
• Own solution development for top questions/challenges identified by senior management and stakeholders
• Guide and mentor a dynamic team of business strategists

Preferred Qualifications

Industry expertise in clean-tech, high-tech, consumer electronics, energy services and/or SAAS subscription-based sectors is a plus

Benefits

• Competitive salaries
• Health benefits
• Progressive Parental Top-Up Program (75% top-up or five bonus days off)
• Flexible hours
• Option of a office-based, fully remote, or hybrid work environment
• Learn with our in-house learning enablement team, and enjoy our generous professional learning budget