Strategic Planning Manager, Guild Education
$120-145k
+ Variable compensation
More information about location
3 days a week in office
Upskilling and education platform for America's workforce
Be an early applicant
Upskilling and education platform for America's workforce
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$120-145k
+ Variable compensation
More information about location
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To unlock opportunity for America’s workforce through education and upskilling.
Role
Who you are
- You can distill and communicate complex topics broadly to board members, clients, front-line team members and everyone in between. Comfortable and confident presenting to senior leadership
- You have a positive attitude with a can-do, service-oriented mentality. You are collaborative, with an ability to prioritize, negotiate, and build successful working relationships
- You are a self-starter with a roll-up-the-sleeves, action oriented mindset to have an impact in a fast-paced, rapidly changing growth environment. You have the ability to thrive in a remote and/or hybrid work environment
- You have sharp attention to detail with a natural feel for numbers and data, and have a high degree of accuracy in a fast-paced, results-oriented environment
- You are passionate about serving our students and an unrelenting drive to build an amazing business
- You have strong organizational and time management skills and ability to juggle multiple projects/tasks with multiple stakeholders while hitting deadlines on time sensitive projects
Desirable
- You have 4+ years of relevant work experience in a related role, including management consulting, corporate strategy, business operations, or strategic planning
- You have strong experience in data analysis, financial modeling, business process optimization, and developing executive level presentations
What the job involves
- In this role, you will collaborate with cross-functional partners and leadership to design, measure and execute on Guild’s strategy and annual plan, all while helping Guild achieve its mission
- You’ll form strong relationships across the organization and work with both internal and external stakeholders. In addition, you’d be a critical member of the team, identifying new opportunities, driving process improvements and providing decision support for leadership
- Collaborate with leadership and cross-functional partners to develop long range strategy, annual operating plans, and KPIs across the business
- Lead cross-functional initiatives to improve our systems, processes, and reporting
- Structure Guild’s Rhythm of Business (RoB) for the leadership team, including monthly and quarterly business reviews
- Support preparation for our Quarterly Business Reviews and Board of Directors meetings
- Analyze business and performance trends to provide actionable insights and decision support to Guild’s leadership team, and translate strategy into effective execution
Our take
The recruitment process can be the most costly element of a company's operation, with future-proof skillset requirements resulting in the hiring of staff for niche tasks. Many existing employees of a company could have the potential to fill talent gaps and prevent the need for a new hire, but they often lack the training for such roles. Helping to solve this problem, Guild Education helps employers partner with nonprofit universities to train staff across a variety of subject matters, including high school completion programs, vocational opportunities, and enrollment in higher education.
As professional development is a strong employer benefit, Guild Education also pitches itself as a perk for employees, aiming to increase retention and worker satisfaction. By solving two major problems - a skills shortage and worker retention, it has gained large companies such as Chipotle, Target, Hilton and PepsiCo as corporate clients.
Guild Education closed a Series F financing round in 2022 led by Wellington Management and with participation from Oprah Winfrey. The company is using this funding to develop its healthcare and financial services learning modules and increase its offering to workers by exploring new ways to lower the barriers to learning, for instance through childcare solutions and financial wellness tools.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-5% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Jun 2022
$265m
SERIES F
Jun 2021
$150m
SERIES E
Total funding: $643.5m
Company benefits
- Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Cigna and Kaiser (due to coverage limitations, Kaiser is currently only available in CA & CO)
- Access to a 401k to help save for the future
- Open vacation policy for employees to rest and recharge
- 8 days of fully-paid sick leave, to take the time to heal and or recover
- Family-friendly benefits, including 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents; 4-week ramp-up period for when employees return from a leave of 6 weeks or more; as well as employer-paid short-term and long-term disability, employer-sponsored life insurance, fertility and caregiving benefits
- Well-rounded wellness benefits including free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
- Education benefits and tuition assistance to help your future development and growth
Company HQ
Central Business District, Denver, CO
Leadership
Rachel Carlson
(CEO & Founder)Prior to co-founding Guild Education, was founder and CEO of Blueprint. Before that was a Director at American Honours and an Associate with The Parthenon Group.
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