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If you're driven by the passion to do something meaningful that changes lives, Nestlé is the place for you. Nestlé USA is one of seven operating companies that make up Nestlé’s presence in the United States. We're in 97% of American homes, and as the leading food and beverage company, our goals are to continue to deliver quality food and beverage products, strengthen our local communities, and reduce our environmental and climate impact.

We’re determined to challenge the status quo and be better tomorrow than we are today. As individuals and teams, we embrace our entrepreneurial culture and have created a workplace where collaboration is essential, courage is rewarded, speed is expected, and agility is the norm to delight our consumers every single day. Here, you will find limitless opportunities to learn and advance your career and feel empowered to succeed in the workplace and beyond. Because our focus is not only on nourishing our customers, but also about enriching you.

Position Summary
This position monitors and drives the disciplined execution of company-wide transformational strategic projects to ensure strategic, financial, and operational objectives are achieved. This role reports to the Head of Strategy and is responsible to lead key strategic endeavors, namely in the areas of Portfolio management & Transformation, Execution, and monitoring of the Nestlé USA (NUSA) strategic & operational plans and Transformational / Change management initiatives.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor the marketplace to identify and assess key consumer and industry trends/opportunities/threats that can inform NUSA’s strategy and operational plans
• Deep understand of key drivers of shareholder value creation and how they influence companies’ portfolio strategy and business model design
• Support the CSO (Chief Strategy Officer) in the formulation and tracking of the strategic and operational plans, including developing and refining NUSA’s Portfolio Strategy, cascading through the Business Units and Corporate Functions and monitoring flawless execution of the plans
• Perform strategic, business, and economic analyses of the Food and Beverage space, developing and continuously refining the NUSA Growth Agenda, identifying new business opportunities, and executing pre and post M&A activities. This includes assessing business model options, entry strategies and seize market trends to substantiate long-term business prospects
• Support the CSO in setting and communicating project priorities and transformational initiatives to NUSA’s C-suite, and drive the enterprise teams to meet commitments and expedite key business decisions
• Coordinate with internal departments in identifying and implementing business development projects, including building a case for change, E2E project management and value unlock
• Monitor project timelines, achievements, and resource usage and program-level risks and mitigation
• Mobilize, coordinate, and inspire cross functional/divisional teams on a project basis
• Liaise with the Leadership Team to expedite decision-making for C-suite strategic business decisions
• Engage with Leadership Team to achieve adoption and support for standard methodologies on transformational journey concepts
• Act as a ‘change agent”, balancing between collaborative consensus building and the need to ‘push and stretch’ NUSA to drive transformational change

Requirements:

• A minimum of a Bachelor's degree is required. An MBA degree is highly preferred
• A minimum of 7-10 years of related work experience in any of these relevant functions: strategic marketing, corporate finance, portfolio management, strategic planning, business development
• >5 years’ experience in a top strategy consulting firm or investment bank is preferred, with experience in corporate strategy and business development
• Experience in the following areas: Business Strategy, Business Development, Commercial Acceleration, Margin Optimization, Program / Project Management and Change Management
• Marketplace knowledge to include macro / microeconomics environment, consumer, customer, competition, and business models is required
• Highly developed expertise in strategy development, including project formulation, hypotheses development, financial and business modeling, strategic options identification, consensus building and implementation
• Strong analytical, project management and change management skills to provide solid business conclusions and recommendations
• Strong in driving change, influencing, stakeholder management and building strong relationships with critical stakeholders in functions and business unites
• International experience within CPG (or adjacent industries) is considered a critical advantage

Requisition ID:

242061

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