Job Description:
Director, Corporate Strategy
Job Description
Reporting to the VP of Corporate Strategy, the Director of Corporate Strategy plays a pivotal role in shaping the organization’s strategic direction and driving key initiatives. This individual partners with executive leadership to identify growth opportunities, address complex business challenges, and ensure alignment with overarching organizational objectives. They lead cross-functional teams, manage high-impact projects, and inspire a high-performing strategy team to deliver exceptional results
This job is located on-site at our Global Home Office in Columbus, Ohio.
What You Will Be Doing?
- Strategic Planning: Develop and articulate long-term strategies that align with organizational goals, informed by market trends and competitive insights.
- Executive Collaboration: Partner with executive leadership to evaluate and prioritize strategic opportunities, ensuring alignment with business objectives.
- Project Leadership: Lead large-scale, cross-functional initiatives with significant business impact, ensuring high-quality deliverables and timely execution including preparing materials and facilitating workshops.
- Team Development: Build and manage a high-performing team, providing mentorship and fostering professional growth.
- Change Management: Drive organizational change initiatives, ensuring adoption and measurable impact.
- Trend Monitoring: Analyze industry trends, competitive dynamics, and market shifts to inform strategic recommendations
What You Will Need to Bring?
- Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or equivalent experience preferred
- 8–12 years of experience in strategy, consulting, corporate strategy, or similar roles (retail, consumer, or omnichannel experience strongly preferred)
- Strategic Vision: Ability to translate complex challenges into actionable strategies that drive growth and innovation.
- Leadership Excellence: Inspires, motivates, and develops a high-performing strategy team. Experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives and influencing senior stakeholders.
- Problem Solving: Approaches complex challenges with structured thinking and innovative solutions.
- Stakeholder Engagement: Builds strong relationships with executive leadership, external partners, and cross-functional teams.
- Execution Focus: Ensures timely and high-quality delivery of strategic initiatives and projects
- Business Acumen: Ability to connect strategy to financial outcomes and operational plans
- Communication skills: Ability to synthesize complex ideas into clear, compelling narratives for executive audiences
- Ownership and accountability: Ability to “get things done” in a fast-paced environment . Comfort with ambiguity and able to create structure where it does not exist
Benefits & Perks
As an Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (A&F Co.) associate, you’ll be eligible to participate in a variety of benefit programs designed to fit you and your lifestyle. A&F Co. is committed to providing competitive and comprehensive benefits that align with our company’s culture and values, but most importantly – with you! We also provide competitive incentives to reward the commitment our associates have for moving our global business forward:
- Incentive bonus program
- Annual companywide review process
- Flexible spending accounts
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Life and disability insurance
- Associate assistance program
- Paid parental and adoption leave
- Access to fertility and adoption benefits through Carrot
- Access to mental health and wellness app, Headspace
- Paid time off and one paid volunteer day per year, allowing you to give back to your community
- Work from anywhere (Mondays and Fridays are “work from anywhere” days for most roles and six work from anywhere weeks per year)
- Seven associate wellness half days per year
- Merchandise discount on all of our brands
- Opportunities for career advancement, we believe in promoting from within
- Access to multiple Associate Resource Groups
- Global team of people who will celebrate you for being YOU!
Company Description
Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (A&F Co.) is a global, digitally led omnichannel specialty retailer of apparel and accessories catering to kids through millennials with assortments curated for their specific lifestyle needs.
The company operates a family of brands, including Abercrombie brands and Hollister brands, each sharing a commitment to offer products of enduring quality and exceptional comfort that support global customers on their journey to being and becoming who they are. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. operates stores under these brands across North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, as well as the e-commerce sites abercrombie.com, abercrombiekids.com and hollisterco.com.
Learn more about A&F Co. by visiting our corporate website here.
ABERCROMBIE & FITCH CO. IS AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree
- MBA or equivalent experience
- 8-12 years experience in strategy, consulting, corporate strategy, or similar roles
- Retail, consumer, or omnichannel experience
- Proven ability to develop and articulate long-term strategies
- Experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives and influencing senior stakeholders
- Strong problem solving and structured thinking skills
- Stakeholder engagement and executive communication skills
- Ability to connect strategy to financial outcomes and operational plans (business acumen)
- Demonstrated ownership, accountability, and comfort with ambiguity
What We Do
Abercrombie & Fitch Co. (NYSE: ANF) is a leading, global specialty retailer of apparel and accessories for men, women and kids through five renowned brands. The iconic Abercrombie & Fitch brand was born in 1892 and aims to make every day feel as exceptional as the start of a long weekend. abercrombie kids sees the world through kids’ eyes, where play is life and every day is an opportunity to be anything and better anything. The Hollister brand believes in liberating the spirit of an endless summer inside everyone and making teens feel celebrated and comfortable in their own skin. Gilly Hicks, offering intimates, loungewear and sleepwear, is designed to invite everyone to embrace who they are underneath it all. Social Tourist, the creative vision of Hollister and social media personalities, Dixie and Charli D’Amelio, offers trend forward apparel that allows teens to experiment with their style, while exploring the duality of who they are both on social media and in real life. The brands share a commitment to offering products of enduring quality and exceptional comfort that allow consumers around the world to express their own individuality and style. Abercrombie & Fitch Co. operates approximately 730 stores under these brands across North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East, as well as the e-commerce sites www.abercrombie.com, www.abercrombiekids.com, www.hollisterco.com, www.gillyhicks.com and www.socialtourist.com. Working at A&F Co. We strive to create inclusive, welcoming, omni-channel experiences for our global customers. Every day, our associates show up and empower one another to stay curious and push boundaries. We hold our work and our ideas to the highest caliber, and ourselves to the highest character. We coach, mentor, care, and bring our best selves every day, because we are in this together. Whether you lead yourself, a team, or the company, everyone has a voice at A&F Co.
