Portfolio Strategy Sr. Associate

About the Role:

The Portfolio Strategy Sr. Associate is responsible for supporting the growth of Dr. Squatch’s personal care categories by bringing new products to market and optimizing existing products and categories. Should we be expanding within the category? Do we need to improve or cut the products we already have? Are our products fit for the right channels and keeping up with current trends? Is the category set up for long-term success or should we be innovating within the space? These are all questions the Portfolio Strategy Sr. Associate will work on answering on a regular basis, and the answers to these questions will fundamentally steer the business.

A successful Portfolio Strategy Sr. Associate will be highly creative, analytical, and ROI-driven in identifying potentially attractive opportunities. Specifically, they will help build out the strategy for existing product categories, while continuously evaluating new opportunities, and helping oversee the execution of both. A successful Portfolio Strategy Sr. Associate will be an exceptional teammate, leveraging the expertise of our Product Development, Consumer Insights, Data & Analytics, Marketing and Operations to ensure we’re making the best product decisions for the business. Finally, a successful Portfolio Strategy Sr. Associate will understand how to balance data with intuition, and will be energized by helping guide important decisions. 

This role will report to the Senior Manager of Portfolio Strategy. This is a full-time role with company benefits based in Marina del Rey, CA. We are currently operating in a hybrid office capacity, and expect employees to be in the Los Angeles area and in-office for a minimum of two days a week.

The anticipated base compensation range for this role will be $80,000 to $100,000. Compensation will be commensurate with the candidate's experience and local market rates.

What You'll Do:

• Lead the execution of cross-functional initiatives, including product briefs, category reviews, and ad-hoc strategic projects and present findings to the leadership team
• Support the overall performance of categories and products within the Dr. Squatch portfolio, developing a deep understanding of our brand, our customer, and the problems we’re trying to solve through natural personal care products
• Partner with cross-functional teams to create and track revenue and adoption goals by product category, identify opportunities to improve the profitability and reliability of our products, ensure optimal merchandising and claims strategy, and support retail merchandising initiatives
• Help identify potential initiatives and optimizations to grow existing categories and collaborate with the broader team in prioritizing, executing and analyzing the success of those initiatives
• Support in the development and drive of long term strategic initiatives to address gaps or capitalize on whitespace opportunities to grow market share
• As part of the development of new products, translate data from multiple sources (e.g. consumer insights, market research, competitive landscape) into a winning value proposition and set of key product features, own pricing and product margin, work cross-functionally to establish and understand revenue goals, demand planning and merchandising, and manage the product and artwork design
• Support retail merchandising initiatives and decisions in coordination with the Retail and Commercialization teams

About You:

• Bachelor’s Degree - ideally in Business, Marketing, quantitative, or technical field
• 2-3+ years in management consulting, finance, private equity, high-growth startups or similar
• Scrappy problem-solver with a strong sense of urgency
• Highly analytical and strategic thinker excited to ensure Dr. Squatch continues innovating across the universe of existing and new product categories
• A scrappy self-starter with an ability to complete tasks both independently and collaboratively as part of a team 
• Comfortable in a fast-paced environment
• Strong organizational and multitasking skills with high attention to detail
• A team player excited about cross-functional collaboration
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

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