Strategic Growth Initiatives Lead

The people here at Apple dont just build products they craft the kind of wonder thats revolutionized entire industries. Its the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. Join Apple and help us leave the world better than we found it!nnApple Canada is looking for a Strategic Growth Initiatives Lead to join the Strategy and Planning team. This team is responsible for owning the direction priorities and growth ambitions for Apple Canadas sales team and our role sits at the intersection of strategy and execution. You will lead the development prioritization and execution of Apple Canadas strategic growth initiatives. This mandate requires commercial instinct cross-functional fluency and the judgment to know what matters most in the Canadian market.

The Canadian Strategic Growth Initiatives Lead will own our core strategic initiative portfolio and be responsible for the Canadian strategy and the plan of record. You will set the tone and direction for Canada building the expertise needed to be fluent in each initiative; have the business acumen to deeply understand market relevance and impacts; foster relationships to secure buy-in and execution of your plan; communicate openly to provide context and feedback to global stakeholders; and focus on what matters most to drive the go-to-market approach timing and recommend the sequencing and level of focus for each initiative in Canada and you master the art of localization knowing when and how to implement the global playbook for Canadian conditions discerning when adaptation is warranted and having the corporate communication skills to navigate those know what the Canadian sales team needs to execute each initiative evaluating whether whats being produced is working and advocating for better outcomes or support where gaps exist. Youll work closely with account teams to ensure the initiatives translate into action at the partner and channel level.

Develop a deep understanding of worldwide strategic growth initiatives across Apples lines of business including the audience segments value propositions and messaging frameworks behind each the sequencing and level of focus for each initiative in Canada based on market conditions business priorities and resource availability. Translate worldwide go-to-market strategies into Canadian execution plans adapting as local market dynamics cross-functional alignment across local sales marketing finance and product teams to ensure coordinated execution of as the primary liaison between Canada and worldwide initiative owners maintaining deep relationships providing Canadian market feedback and influencing ongoing strategy refinement. Contribute Canadian market intelligence and performance insights to shape future worldwide initiative with account teams to activate growth initiatives across Canadas retail and channel partners ensuring initiatives land with the right emphasis and execution support at the partner in-store and informed on marketing assets campaigns and communication packages to ensure they fit Canadian needs and advocate for what the sales team needs to execute and drive the operating cadence for initiative tracking and cross-functional coordination including the forum where decisions get made. Lead business reviews progress dashboards and stakeholder updates that keep execution visible and revenue performance for the Beats and Accessories business across routes-to-market including sell-through analysis go-to-market planning and identifying levers to accelerate growth. Represent Canada in worldwide business reviews for Beats and Accessories owning the narrative on Canadian performance opportunities and strategic whitespace and growth opportunities by analyzing initiative performance market trends competitive dynamics and cross-functional and influence budget and resource allocation across active initiatives ensuring investment aligns with strategic priority and market opportunity.

6 years of experience in business planning strategy program management or cross-functional ability to influence cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders without direct ability to build and maintain relationships across functions geographies and levels up down and record of driving initiatives to completion through shifting priorities competing demands and organizational business judgment you can look at a portfolio of initiatives and make a defensible call on what matters most for this navigating ambiguity and standing up new processes where none existed verbal written and presentation skills including experience developing and presenting strategic concepts to senior comfort using AI tools and automation as a core part of how you analyze data build processes and solve problems with a genuine curiosity about how emerging AI capabilities can scale your degree or equivalent experience.

Experience working across or within Apples sales marketing or channel record of localizing global strategies for regional markets ideally in a subsidiary or country-level role within a global with the consumer electronics industry retail channel dynamics or sales managing or influencing across multiple product categories or lines of business using data and analytics tools (Excel Tableau or similar) to inform business decisions you dont need to be an analyst but you can read a dashboard interrogate a trend and use data to make your presenting in worldwide or cross-geo business review forums with experience tailoring a market narrative for senior and executive flexible work style and approach based on business needs.