Director Market Intelligence & Strategy Insights

Job description

The Enterprise Growth team, led by the Chief Growth Officer, exists to bring clarity, focus, and economic discipline to Staples’ growth agenda by enabling better, more informed choices about where and how to grow. The team acts as a custodian of enterprise focus, a translator of strategy into tactical execution, and an embedded thought partner to the Senior Leadership Team (SLT). In this role, the team is tasked with ensuring the company grows profitably and sustainably, serving as an integrator across businesses and functions to connect strategy to execution, clarify trade-offs, and focus resources on the highest-return opportunities. The Director of Market Intelligence & Competitive Insights is responsible for building and operating a market and competitor “signal engine” that informs Staples’ enterprise growth agenda. This role will lead with data by gathering, validating, and synthesizing external market and competitive inputs into clear insights on opportunities, risks, and emerging dynamics relevant to Staples’ strategic initiatives and Growth Pyramid priorities. This leader must be an unbiased, high-credibility communicator who can frame complex external signals into clear d...