Field Strategy and Insights Manager

Working closely with our US Senior Leadership and Field Leadership teams, the Strategy and Insights team delivers projects of the highest strategic relevance to McDonald’s. As a group, we play a critical role in setting, executing, and analyzing our multi-year strategy and business performance; interacting with key stakeholders, including our executive and owner-operator leaders.

As a Field Strategy and Insights Manager, you will play a key role in using analytics to develop insights and drive strategic decisions impacting billions of dollars of McDonald’s business. In this high-visibility position will serve as a talent

Responsibilities :

• Use multiple analytics and insights techniques to evaluate business performance and identify strategic opportunities
• Craft compelling narratives and deliver presentations around business performance and opportunities for growth, influencing the direction of the business
• Act as a trusted advisor to multiple stakeholders and cross-functional partners, including the Field Office Vice President, functional subject areas, ad agencies, and owner-operators/franchisees
• Play a lead role in the planning process, collaborating with Field Office executives and Owner Operators to set the strategy for a multi-billion-dollar geography of McDonald’s
• Develop monthly, quarterly, and annual projections, combining analytical techniques with insights about the market-place and internal initiatives

Requirements

• Bachelors degree or higher in Finance, Marketing, Data Science, or Mathematics/Statistics; MBA preferred
• 5+ years professional experience, previous experience in strategy, analytics, & insights for a large organization is a plus
• Customer-focused strategic thinker with the ability to see how data connects and impacts the overall business
• Effective leadership and presentation skills, with an ability to influence high risk decisions
• Strong prioritization, problem solving and project management skills (from conception to completion)
• Self-motivated with the ability to establish and meet deadlines
• Comfortable with ambiguity
• Operates effectively in a team-based environment
• Willing to travel domestically up to 25%