Title: Sr. Corporate Strategy Manager
Location: Bellevue United States
Job Description:
Get to know The Pokémon Company International
The Pokémon Company International manages the Pokémon property outside of Asia and is responsible for brand management, licensing and marketing, the Pokémon Trading Card Game, the animated TV series, home entertainment, and the official Pokémon website. Pokémon was launched in Japan in 1996 and today is one of the most popular children's entertainment properties in the world.
Job Title: Sr. Corporate Strategy Manager (IC4)
Location: Bellevue
Department: President & Corporate Development Office
Reports to: Chief of Staff & Head of Corporate Development
About the Role
We're seeking a highly strategic, forward-thinking individual to join our President and Corporate Development team. This role is ideal for someone who can think ahead while staying grounded in execution-someone who thrives in planning yet knows how to move things forward amidst day-to-day complexity.
You'll play a key role in supporting executives and cross-functional teams by providing thought partnership, research, analysis, and structured project management. From mid- to long-term strategic planning to near-term execution support, you'll help keep priorities aligned, progress visible, and actions moving. This role is essential for ensuring our strategic agenda stays not only visionary, but operationally executable in a fast-moving, ever-shifting environment.
Key Responsibilities
Long-Term Strategic Planning & Governance (Core Accountability)
Partner closely with the Chief of Staff to the President to lead the development, refinement, and institutionalization of the company's 5+ year plan, ensuring alignment across the executive and leadership teams across the enterprise functions.
Support the Chief of Staff and the President in aligning the Executive and Leadership Teams around long-term vision, objectives by driving clarity, commitment, and accountability
Establish and maintain strategic governance forums and planning rhythms to assess progress, surface enterprise risks, and recommend timely pivots based on evolving market and business conditions.
Long-Term Plan Metrics & Measurement Architecture
Translate the company-wide vision and objectives into clearly defined, measurable outcomes, establishing the leading and lagging indicators that signal progress toward long-term objectives.
Design and operationalize a structured enterprise-wide measurement framework, partnering closely with executive KPI owners to ensure accountability, and alignment with the long-term vision and objectives.
Partner with Data & Analytics and cross-functional stakeholders to test, validate, and refine metrics and measurement methodologies, ensuring integrity, relevance, and actionability.
Strategy Monitoring & Performance Management
Design and own the corporate strategy scorecard, using the defined long-term plan metrics to measure the progress against the vision, objectives and mid-term milestones.
Lead continuous monitoring of initiatives and top priority core businesses, proactively identifying performance gaps, interdependencies, and execution risks that may impact long-term outcomes.
Synthesize complex cross-enterprise data into clear, forward-looking narratives, ensuring sustained alignment with the long-term plan, and enabling informed decision-making at the President and leadership levels.
Special Projects & Enterprise Priorities
Support high-impact special projects on behalf of the Chief of Staff to the President, providing structured project management as well as analytical and execution support to drive timely, high-quality outcomes
Provide analytical and execution support for corporate development activities as needed, including strategic due diligence, integration planning, and executive decision preparation.
Qualifications & Mindset
12+ years of professional experience, including 8+ years in corporate strategy, strategic planning, management consulting, or a related field
3+ years of experience working within an operating company, with a proven ability to translate strategic plans into real-world execution
Demonstrated success in dynamic, cross-cultural, and fast-paced environments
Exceptional communicator-both written and verbal-with a strong ability to craft strategic narratives and develop engaging, human-centered presentations that drive alignment, influence stakeholders, and serve as effective tools for storytelling and change management
Exceptional at juggling multiple projects without losing focus, with a sharp eye for detail and follow-through
Adept at balancing logical thinking with practical considerations-grounding big ideas in real-world feasibility
Strong critical thinking and multi-perspective analysis-able to understand implications across business, people, and operational dimensions
Team-first mindset, grounded in humility and a strong sense of shared purpose; receptive to feedback, adaptabl