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SmartSign
Manager, Commercial Strategy & Insights
This role is for a Manager, Commercial Strategy & Insights focused on e-commerce growth initiatives. It requires 3–5 years of experience in consulting or business operations, strong analytical skills, and proficiency in BI tools. The position is permanent.
🌎 Country
United States
🏝️ Location
Unknown
📄 Contract
Full-time
🪜 Seniority
Mid-Senior level
💰 Range
Unknown
💱 Currency
$ USD
💸 Pay
Unknown
🗓️ Discovered
July 24, 2025
📍 Location detailed
Brooklyn, NY
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🧠 Skills
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Role description
SmartSign is seeking a high-performing Manager of Commercial Strategy & Insights to support the business in delivering critical growth and revenue initiatives across our portfolio of e-commerce businesses and SaaS platforms. This is a cross-functional role that blends commercial strategy, insights and analytics, and execution. You’ll be central to identifying and quantifying growth opportunities, building scalable frameworks, supporting strategic initiatives, and improving decision-making across the business.
The ideal candidate is a commercially minded problem-solver—ideally with a background in consulting or as a generalist—who brings strong analytical skills, sharp business acumen, and experience partnering with senior leaders. You thrive in fast-paced, digital-first environments and are energized by leading diverse workstreams and building from the ground up.
Key Responsibilities
1. Commercial Strategy Development
• Assess new markets, customer segments, business models, and product extensions to identify and size high-potential opportunities
• Build structured frameworks and business cases to evaluate new sales channels and B2B partnerships
• Prioritize opportunities based on strategic fit and financial impact
• Translate insights into strategic recommendations for executive and Board-level audiences
1. Execution of New Business Strategies & Ideas
• Drive and own the launch of new initiatives, business models, and commercial experiments from idea to execution
• Manage workstreams across scoping, analysis, stakeholder coordination, implementation, and early-stage iteration
• Evaluate early performance and contribute to go/no-go scaling decisions
1. Organizational Capability Building
• Help elevate the strategic and analytical capabilities of the organization to better compete in e-commerce and digital operations – including topics like pricing, go-to-market, channel strategy, etc.
• Introduce scalable frameworks, tools, and decision-making processes across the business
• Partner with cross-functional teams to embed strategy and insights into daily operations
1. Commercial Analytics, Dashboarding & Insights
• Develop and manage BI dashboards that deliver real-time visibility into commercial performance for executives and business owners
• Maintain consistency and integrity across all core commercial metrics
• Conduct market and competitive research to gather insights across signs, labels, tags, and adjacent categories
• Translate data and trends into actionable recommendations that shape company priorities
Qualifications
• 3–5 years of experience in management consulting, marketing and sales strategy, or business operations; former consulting experience is plus
• Strong analytical skills and fluency with financial modeling and business case development
• Proficient in advanced data visualization and business intelligence tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Looker)
• Demonstrated experience working cross-functionally and with executive stakeholders
• Strategic generalist comfortable managing multiple diverse workstreams
• Industry experience in e-commerce, retail is strongly preferred. B2C and B2B experience helpful.
• Excellent communication and synthesis skills; able to move from data to insight to recommendation
What Success Looks Like
• You shape SmartSign’s strategic direction with clear thinking, smart frameworks, and actionable insights
• You deliver results across multiple workstreams, from pricing to growth to new ventures
• You elevate how the business operates—through better tools, more consistent data, and stronger strategic discipline
SmartSign is seeking a high-performing Manager of Commercial Strategy & Insights to support the business in delivering critical growth and revenue initiatives across our portfolio of e-commerce businesses and SaaS platforms. This is a cross-functional role that blends commercial strategy, insights and analytics, and execution. You’ll be central to identifying and quantifying growth opportunities, building scalable frameworks, supporting strategic initiatives, and improving decision-making across the business.
The ideal candidate is a commercially minded problem-solver—ideally with a background in consulting or as a generalist—who brings strong analytical skills, sharp business acumen, and experience partnering with senior leaders. You thrive in fast-paced, digital-first environments and are energized by leading diverse workstreams and building from the ground up.
Key Responsibilities
1. Commercial Strategy Development
• Assess new markets, customer segments, business models, and product extensions to identify and size high-potential opportunities
• Build structured frameworks and business cases to evaluate new sales channels and B2B partnerships
• Prioritize opportunities based on strategic fit and financial impact
• Translate insights into strategic recommendations for executive and Board-level audiences
1. Execution of New Business Strategies & Ideas
• Drive and own the launch of new initiatives, business models, and commercial experiments from idea to execution
• Manage workstreams across scoping, analysis, stakeholder coordination, implementation, and early-stage iteration
• Evaluate early performance and contribute to go/no-go scaling decisions
1. Organizational Capability Building
• Help elevate the strategic and analytical capabilities of the organization to better compete in e-commerce and digital operations – including topics like pricing, go-to-market, channel strategy, etc.
• Introduce scalable frameworks, tools, and decision-making processes across the business
• Partner with cross-functional teams to embed strategy and insights into daily operations
1. Commercial Analytics, Dashboarding & Insights
• Develop and manage BI dashboards that deliver real-time visibility into commercial performance for executives and business owners
• Maintain consistency and integrity across all core commercial metrics
• Conduct market and competitive research to gather insights across signs, labels, tags, and adjacent categories
• Translate data and trends into actionable recommendations that shape company priorities
Qualifications
• 3–5 years of experience in management consulting, marketing and sales strategy, or business operations; former consulting experience is plus
• Strong analytical skills and fluency with financial modeling and business case development
• Proficient in advanced data visualization and business intelligence tools (e.g., Power BI, Tableau, Looker)
• Demonstrated experience working cross-functionally and with executive stakeholders
• Strategic generalist comfortable managing multiple diverse workstreams
• Industry experience in e-commerce, retail is strongly preferred. B2C and B2B experience helpful.
• Excellent communication and synthesis skills; able to move from data to insight to recommendation
What Success Looks Like
• You shape SmartSign’s strategic direction with clear thinking, smart frameworks, and actionable insights
• You deliver results across multiple workstreams, from pricing to growth to new ventures
• You elevate how the business operates—through better tools, more consistent data, and stronger strategic discipline