Manager, Strategic Planning and Analysis

• 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

• 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

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