Manager, Strategic Planning and Analysis

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🇲🇽 Mexico – Remote

💵 MX$900k - MX$1M / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🧐 Strategy

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The Institute for Study Abroad

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1988

💼 Consulting

✈️ Travel

📚 Education

Consulting • Travel • Education

The Institute for Study Abroad is a U. S. -based organization that designs and administers international study abroad programs for college students, providing program search, admissions support, scholarships and financial aid, health and safety resources, and career development services like a Career Accelerator. It partners with educators and institutions to offer quarter, semester, summer, and custom programs worldwide, while emphasizing experiential learning, diversity and inclusion, and student wellbeing.

📋 Description

• Lead annual, multi-year, and scenario-based strategic planning processes • Help leadership evaluate opportunities and determine enterprise-wide priorities • Recommend initiative sequencing while balancing growth, risk, resources, feasibility, and capacity • Assess competing initiatives across departments, programs, markets, and operations • Develop portfolio frameworks comparing strategic alignment, impact, cost, risk, feasibility, dependencies, and resource requirements • Recommend where resources should increase, decrease, shift, or be delayed • Translate research, data, and organizational context into actionable recommendations • Develop strategic scenarios, model potential outcomes, identify implications and dependencies, and present leadership with clear options • Coordinate planning across departments, functions, and regions • Facilitate stakeholder discussions and integrate distributed information into coherent planning outputs • Analyze competitive trends, market developments, customer and partner needs, industry shifts, emerging risks, and internal performance signals • Identify opportunities and threats, assess future scenarios, and recommend strategic responses • Help determine how budgets, staffing, technology, and operational capacity should support strategic priorities • Evaluate ROI and resource implications, define success metrics and strategic KPIs, and recommend corrective actions • Develop prioritization tools, scoring models, portfolio views, templates, and decision frameworks • Conduct ad hoc strategic analyses and synthesize findings for functional leaders • Support evidence-based, enterprise-level, decision-oriented planning • Collaborate with Research, Finance, Academic Programs, IT, Career Readiness, International Markets, and other teams • Work as an individual contributor through analysis, influence, facilitation, and cross-functional partnership rather than direct supervision

🎯 Requirements

• Master’s degree preferred in business administration, strategy, economics, public policy, data analytics, or a related field; bachelor’s degree with substantial relevant experience may be considered • Minimum of 3–5 years of progressive experience in enterprise planning, strategic planning, portfolio management, business analysis, consulting, institutional planning, market analysis, or a related analytical strategy role • Professional proficiency in written and spoken English at CEFR B2 or higher • Ability to present complex analysis clearly to senior leaders and executive audiences • Experience developing decision frameworks, business cases, prioritization models, portfolio assessments, dashboards, scenario analyses, or executive briefing materials • Ability to evaluate tradeoffs across strategic value, financial impact, feasibility, risk, timing, resources, and capacity • Advanced Excel skills • Comfort working with quantitative data, qualitative findings, mixed-method evidence, and incomplete information • Strong intercultural communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with diverse communities and stakeholders • Legal authorization to work in Mexico • Must physically reside in Mexico City • Preferred: experience in higher education, nonprofit strategy, enrollment management, project management and prioritization, program development, or mission-driven organizations • Preferred: experience supporting executive leadership, Board preparation, strategic planning cycles, enterprise initiatives, or investment prioritization decisions • Preferred: familiarity with technology prioritization, operational improvement, digital transformation, or AI-related investment evaluation • Preferred: experience with Power BI, Tableau, or similar data visualization or business intelligence tools • Availability to occasionally work outside standard local business hours • Occasional domestic and international travel may be required

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible work arrangements • Support for professional development • Work/life balance • 13.5 salaries annually • Occasional domestic and international travel