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,