Strategy Manager

Founded in 1920, Eastman is a global specialty materials company that produces a broad range of products found in items people use every day. With the purpose of enhancing the quality of life in a material way, Eastman works with customers to deliver innovative products and solutions while maintaining a commitment to safety and sustainability. The company’s innovation-driven growth model takes advantage of world-class technology platforms, deep customer engagement, and differentiated application development to grow its leading positions in attractive end markets such as transportation, building and construction, and consumables. As a globally inclusive company, Eastman employs approximately 13,000 people around the world and serves customers in more than 100 countries. The company had 2025 revenue of approximately $8.8 billion and is headquartered in Kingsport, Tennessee, USA. For more information, visit www.eastman.com.

Notice

This role will be posted until at least September 24, 2026.

LOCATION: 

This is a U.S. based role.  Preference on-site in Kingsport, TN.  Will consider remote candidates.

Role Description

The Strategy Manager partners with the Strategy Director and senior business leaders to create and lead full strategy “deep dives,” corporate strategy projects, and medium- and long-term strategic planning efforts. The role leads complex analyses, generates insights and best-practice recommendations, evaluates strategic alternatives, and applies key strategy methods to support enterprise and business decision-making.

The Strategy Manager also builds strategy and commercial capability across the organization—developing and delivering training, coaching leaders and teams, and embedding effective strategy, commercial, and planning practices. Depending on business need, the role may sit on a business leadership team as the strategy leader for that business, providing strategic insight, facilitating leadership alignment, and helping guide the execution and evolution of the business strategy.

Operating with minimal supervision in a complex, diversified environment, the Strategy Manager serves as a recognized resource in corporate strategy, strategic planning, strategy execution, and commercial capability building. The role is consulted by senior leaders as functional and business strategies are developed, and is expected to anticipate internal and external challenges and recommend process, product, service, capability, and strategic improvements.

Responsibilities

•    Translate strategy into execution by partnering with business and functional leaders to define priorities, execution roadmaps, milestones, accountabilities, resource requirements, and measures of success.
•    Facilitate the implementation of strategic initiatives across businesses and functions, identifying barriers and helping leaders resolve issues that could affect delivery of strategic objectives.
•    Track and monitor the impact of strategy through appropriate financial, operational, commercial, market, customer, and strategic performance measures, and recommend adjustments when conditions require a change in direction.
•    Establish and maintain processes for strategy reviews, performance monitoring, strategic learning, and communication of progress and impact to business and executive leadership.
•    Serve as the strategy leader on a business leadership team, where applicable, providing strategic direction, commercial insight, portfolio perspective, and leadership support for the development and execution of the business strategy.
•    Connect strategy to commercial priorities—customer value creation, market choices, portfolio priorities, pricing and profitability, competitive positioning, and growth plans.
•    Lead strategy and commercial capability-building through training, coaching, and mentoring of strategy team members and business partners, embedding strategy, planning, commercial, and execution methods across the organization.
•    Partner with Corporate Strategy Management on resource planning, recruiting, capability development, and the effective deployment of strategy team members.
•    Contribute to the development of Corporate Strategy tools, processes, best practices, and performance-monitoring approaches, engaging external stakeholders where appropriate.

Scope Boundaries
•    Does not typically own the day-to-day operational management of a client business or functional organization, nor the primary ownership of routine operational execution—though the role may engage operational, capital project, or stage-gate teams to evaluate alternatives, support decisions, and ensure recommendations are practical and executable.
•    Does not make business decisions independently of the appropriate business, functional, or executive leadership; the role is accountable for structuring analysis, developing recommendations, and facilitating informed strategic decisions.

Functional Skills and Capabilities

• Recognized expertise in strategy tools, frameworks, financial models, valuation approaches, scenario analyses, planning methods, execution methodologies, and performance-management approaches—including their underlying logic—and the judgment to select and apply them to generate insights, evaluate alternatives, and support decisions.
• Strong commercial capability, including the ability to assess customer value creation, market attractiveness, competitive positioning, portfolio choices, pricing and profitability, business models, and growth opportunities, and to connect these considerations to broader business strategy.
• The ability to build strategy and commercial capability across the organization through training, coaching, facilitation, and mentoring—simplifying complex concepts, adapting methods to different audiences, and helping leaders and teams apply them effectively.
• Intellectual curiosity, rapid learning agility, and the ability to anticipate and interpret emerging business, market, competitive, technology, regulatory, and customer developments, using these insights to identify implications, risks, opportunities, and potential strategic responses.
• Executive presence, sound judgment, and discretion, with the ability to communicate complex analyses and recommendations clearly to vice presidents, executive leaders, and other stakeholders, and to influence outcomes without relying solely on formal authority.

Qualifications

Education

A master’s degree in Business Administration, Engineering, Chemistry, Marketing, Accounting, Finance, or a related field, plus a minimum of five years of significant, progressively responsible experience in corporate strategy, strategic planning, management consulting, business development, finance, or a related field.

Required Experience

• Progressively responsible experience developing, evaluating, and executing corporate, business, portfolio, product line, commercial, or functional strategies within a complex, diversified, and preferably global organization. Experience in a business-to-business environment is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience independently leading complex, cross-functional strategy engagements from problem definition and analysis through recommendations, executive alignment, and transition to execution, including the ability to structure ambiguous problems and translate analysis into clear strategic choices and actionable plans.
• Evaluating growth opportunities and strategic alternatives is required; relevant experience may include business model innovation, market and portfolio strategy, strategic partnerships, mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, joint ventures, capital investments, or other enterprise-level decisions.
• Applying financial modeling, valuation, scenario analysis, business-case development, capital allocation, and other financial evaluation techniques to assess strategic alternatives and support investment decisions.
• Monitoring market, customer, technology, regulatory, and competitive developments and translating external insights into strategic implications, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions.
• Contributing to medium- and long-term strategic planning, annual business planning, strategy reviews, balanced scorecard or performance-management processes, and governance forums is preferred.
• Preparing and presenting executive-level analyses and recommendations using PowerPoint, Excel, financial modeling tools, and other analytical or visualization applications, with regular interaction at the vice president and executive levels.
• Serving as a strategy leader, strategic advisor, or member of a business or functional leadership team is preferred, with a track record of influencing strategic direction and delivering outcomes with significant business or global impact.

The base salary range for this position is $164,000 to $225,000. ​

At Eastman, we are committed to transparency and integrity in our compensation practices. Eastman includes salary ranges in some job postings to provide clear compensation information and to be compliant with state laws that require disclosure. Not all postings display ranges due to factors like location, market conditions, or position specifics. Compensation is based on qualifications and experience. Candidates are encouraged to discuss their salary questions during the interview process.

Benefits

Your total rewards go far beyond a competitive salary. When you join Eastman, you gain access to an exceptional suite of programs designed to protect your health, grow your wealth, and fuel your career.

Compensation & Incentives
• Base pay plus performance-based incentive opportunities that let you share in our success.

Health & Wellness
• Comprehensive medical, prescription-drug, and dental coverage—paired with a Health Savings Account option to help you save tax-free dollars for care today or in the future.
• A robust menu of voluntary benefits—including vision, optional life, critical-illness protection, and more—so you can tailor coverage to fit your life.
• Holistic wellness support: financial-planning tools, family-building assistance (adoption, pregnancy, and fertility resources), parental leave, and confidential Employee Assistance Program counseling.

Retirement & Financial Strategies 
• 401(k) with a company match—plus an additional annual retirement contribution from Eastman to accelerate your long-term savings.

Time Away
• Eleven paid holidays, one personal day, paid time off, and paid vacation to recharge, celebrate, or handle life’s moments.

Growth & Development
• Access to mentorship, learning resources, and leadership programs that empower you to thrive in your current role and chart the next steps in your career.

At Eastman, we invest in the whole you—so you can bring your best self to work every day and build a future you’re proud of.

Eastman Chemical Company is an equal opportunity employer.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, pregnancy, veteran status or any other protected classes as designated by law.

Eastman is committed to creating a powerfully engaged workplace, where everyone can contribute to their fullest potential each day.