Strategy Manager

About the Role

Gathern is seeking a Strategy Manager to oversee the company's strategic planning and performance cycle. This full-time role involves managing the North Star driver model, OKR and initiative portfolio planning, and executive and board reporting. The primary objective is to ensure that leadership decisions are based on current, reconciled, and traceable data.

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain planning and analysis for key metrics including revenue, reservations, ARPR, SCR, ADR, LOS, and take rate.
• Ensure monthly reconciliation of targets, actuals, and variances.
• Conduct diagnostic analysis to attribute revenue and reservation gaps to primary and supporting drivers, translating attributions into actionable items with owners and deadlines.
• Develop and maintain scenario and sensitivity models for pricing, segmentation, and destination planning.
• Support annual and quarterly planning cycles, including target setting and monthly ramp-up.

Performance Management

• Own the OKR planning process, including objectives, key results, initiative cards, scoring, and milestone tracking.
• Manage the monthly performance cycle, data cut-off, variance review, commentary drafting, and publication according to a fixed calendar.
• Ensure all commitments and initiatives translate into required performance outcomes.
• Maintain the metric definitions library and enforce consistency across all published reports.

Executive and Board Reporting

• Produce monthly executive reports, quarterly one-pagers, and board materials to a consistent standard, including action titles, concise commentary, and internally consistent metrics.
• Prepare pre-reads and decision papers for the Executive Committee and Board of Directors.
• Act as the quality gate for all numerical data leaving the department, ensuring every figure can be traced to a source and definition.

Qualifications and Experience

Candidates for this role should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience in strategic planning and performance management. A strong analytical background and attention to detail are essential for success in this position.

Work Type

This is a full-time position at Gathern.