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CarMax · 13 hours ago

Senior Consultant, Strategic Initiative Management

CarMax is a leading auto finance company seeking a Senior Consultant for Strategic Initiative Management. The role involves supporting the discovery and delivery of valuable products for the business while ensuring alignment with broader program strategies and facilitating communication across teams.

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Responsibilities

Document thought leadership and tying asks to already inventoried initiatives, considering Associate and Customer implications and enhancement asks
Provide quantitative data and insights, in collaboration with business for the organizational strategic plan's progress
Grow knowledge of the following as it relates to the Product/Program: Customer needs, pain-points and opportunities. The business, the stakeholder needs, and constraints. The retail, finance, and automotive industries. How technology is being applied to power the customer experience from purchase through ownership
Monitor capacity planning for of cross-functional teams of engineers, designers, and business owners to drive the prioritization and escalate concerns appropriately
Perform project methodology or playbook quality checkpoints before implementation
Facilitate meetings to discuss and coordinate with Strategic Planning and Delivery partners for the coordination and creation of communications and presentations for project, product, and strategic initiatives
Track, document and communicate and document CAF House strategic goal and budget status
Track, document, and communicate project and product initial ROI metrics, partnering with data team partners to collect input needed
Build relationships with key business partners to ensure product project plans are aligned with company objectives/plans
Manage coordination and communication needs for vendor contacts
Enhances guidelines, policies, practices, and procedures to drive improvements to internal product program management and development processes; maintain comprehensive program documentation
Identifying change management or ADKAR needs; help create change management documentation
Assist with tracking ROI metrics and communications
Assist in the prioritization, initiative alignment and status reporting of the Strategic Plan
Assist Provide input to the Project Managers with initiative launch and budget/associate needs
Create training initial drafts and partner with business and CAF Learning training to best serve CAF and identifying training needs for process, projects, initiatives, and strategy updates
Monitor and report on program risk and issues
Prepare program status reports and review with leadership

Qualification

Program ManagementProduct ManagementData AnalysisStakeholder ManagementChange ManagementCross-functional CollaborationInnovative ThinkingTraining DevelopmentCommunication SkillsOrganizational Skills

Required

Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline
3+1-2 years' experience in program and/or product management or a related field

Preferred

Experience working with modern technology stacks and partnering with software engineers strongly preferred

Company

CarMax provides an online platform for searching new and used cars, researching models, and comparing vehicles.

H1B Sponsorship

CarMax has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (25)
2024 (4)
2023 (10)
2022 (4)

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$98.19M
2021-06-08Post Ipo Equity· $98.19M
1997-01-05IPO

Leadership Team

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Tom Reedy
EVP & Chief Financial Officer
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Charles Joseph Wilson
Executive Vice President, Chief Operating Officer
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