Manager, Strategic Planning

The Manager, Strategic Planning plays a critical role in translating senior leadership vision into execution across AccuWeather’s enterprise. This role requires strong business judgment, comfort operating in ambiguity, and a bias toward action. Working closely with the CEO and Founder, this individual will help ensure that the company’s highest-priority initiatives move from idea to outcome with clarity, accountability, and speed.

This is a business role for someone who thrives in complexity, simplifies decisions, and takes ownership for results. It is not a project management, administrative, or process-heavy operations role.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Capture, structure, and synthesize strategic priorities directly from the CEO and senior leadership
• Translate ideas into clear options, recommendations, and execution paths, including tradeoffs and sequencing
• Drive clarity on decision-making and ensure strategic initiatives have clear outcomes and accountability
• Assign and maintain single-point ownership for high-impact initiatives to ensure follow-through
• Track progress, surface risks early, and close execution loops
• Prepare concise analyses (ROI, scenarios, tradeoffs) to support fast, high-quality decisions
• Maintain a clear, living view of enterprise priorities to ensure focus and momentum
• Partner closely with senior leaders across product, technology, forecasting, and commercial teams
• Reduce friction, ambiguity, and rework by driving clarity on priorities and ownership
• Enable senior leaders to spend more time on high-value work by accelerating execution velocity
• Travel frequently (approximately 50–60%) to support senior leadership priorities, executive meetings, and cross-functional initiatives across AccuWeather locations
• Performs other duties as assigned 

QUALIFICATIONS

• MBA strongly preferred, particularly for candidates seeking long-term enterprise leadership development
• Exceptional operating experience may substitute for formal MBA training, provided the bar is met
• 3–7 years of experience in strategy, operations, chief of staff, or execution-focused business roles
• Demonstrated ability to drive initiatives from concept through execution in complex, cross-functional environments
• Proven comfort working directly with senior executives and influencing without formal authority
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to evaluate tradeoffs and make sound recommendations
• Bias for action and ability to move forward without requiring consensus
• Structured thinker who can simplify complexity and communicate clearly
• Low ego, high accountability, and strong ownership mindset
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Organized, self-motivated, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-moving environment
• Willingness and ability to travel up to 50–60%, including flexibility to adjust based on business needs

Pay Transparency: AccuWeather offers a competitive salary commensurate to experience in the range of $130k to $160k.

ABOUT ACCUWEATHER

AccuWeather, recognized and documented as the most accurate and most used source of weather forecasts and warnings in the world, has saved over 12,000 lives, prevented injury to over 100,000 people, and saved companies tens of billions of dollars through better planning and decision-making.

Billions of people around the world rely on AccuWeather’s proven Superior Accuracy™ across our consumer digital platforms. AccuWeather.com is the #1 weather destination and one of the top 100 most-visited websites in the world, and our award-winning AccuWeather app delivers detailed real-time forecasts to millions of smartphones.

AccuWeather forecasts also appear on digital signage, in 700 newspapers, are heard on over 400 radio stations, and viewed on 100 television stations. The AccuWeather Network and AccuWeather NOW® reach an audience of over 125 million on cable and streaming platforms including DirecTV, Charter Communications - Spectrum, Verizon, Philo, Frndly TV, Comcast’s Xfinity X1 and Xfinity Stream, Roku, Xumo, Rockbot, LG, and Amazon Freevee.

AccuWeather For Business serves more than half of the Fortune 500 companies and thousands of other businesses and government agencies globally.

Dr. Joel Myers, Founder and Executive Chairman, established AccuWeather in 1962 and is considered the “father of modern commercial meteorology.” Myers, a leading creative thinker and visionary, has been called “the most accurate man in weather” by The New York Times and has been recognized as one of the top entrepreneurs in American history by Entrepreneur’s Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurs. 

COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY & INCLUSION 

AccuWeather is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity to all applicants and existing employees and we evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, creed, color, national origin, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity/expression), sexual orientation, age, ancestry, physical or mental disability, marital status, political affiliation, religion, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, or any other basis protected under applicable federal, state, or local law. 
 
AccuWeather is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations to individuals with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation because of a disability for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to human.resources@accuweather.com and let us know the nature of your request and your contact information.