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Strategy Manager resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what strategy managers actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most strategy managers should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Strategy manager with experience turning market and competitor analysis into multi-year plans that senior leadership can act on. Skilled at defining performance metrics, running cross-functional workshops, and reviewing results to keep strategy on track. Works across finance, operations and commercial teams to align priorities with business direction.
Key skills
- Strategy development
- Financial analysis and modelling
- Data analysis
- Project management
- Stakeholder management
- Problem solving
- Written communication
- Tableau
- Microsoft Excel
- PowerPoint
- Jira
- Salesforce
Experience: example bullet points
- Conducted market and competitor analysis that informed a three-year growth plan, leading to a reallocation of resources toward two priority segments.
- Drafted a multi-year strategic plan and presented the recommendation to senior leadership for sign-off, setting the direction for the next planning cycle.
- Defined key performance indicators for a strategic initiative, enabling quarterly tracking that highlighted a need to adjust targets mid-year.
- Ran workshops with department heads to align their plans with the wider strategy, resulting in a shared set of priorities signed off by the executive.
- Reviewed quarterly results against the plan and recommended adjustments that brought two underperforming business units back to target.
Education
A bachelor degree in business, commerce, economics or a related discipline is the most common entry point, with many strategy managers later completing a postgraduate qualification such as an MBA or a master's in business or finance.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- Strategy development
- Financial modelling
- Data analysis
- KPI development
- Stakeholder management
- Market analysis
- Competitor analysis
- Tableau
- Microsoft Excel
- PowerPoint
- Jira
- Salesforce
- ASIC
- ACCC
- Corporations Act
- Australian Institute of Management
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.