Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy & Development (all genders)

About the role

<h2><strong>The role</strong></h2> <p>As a <strong>Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy &amp; Development</strong>, you will work in a small, AI enabled team of highly driven and committed individuals, reporting to the Director Corporate Strategy &amp; Development. This is a high-exposure role, acting as the strategic and analytical engine for our most important decisions in a team that reports <strong>directly to the Group CEO</strong>.</p> <p>You will work across the team's full agenda: Group and business unit strategy, portfolio and capital allocation decisions, and M&amp;A. You are hands-on: you build the financial models, analysis and executive-level outputs yourself. You work under the guidance of the team leadership, owning the quality of analysis and models within your workstreams as well as the respective internal stakeholder relationships.</p> <h2><strong>What you’ll do</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>Corporate Strategy</strong><strong>:</strong> Support the development of the Group's mid-term strategy by driving the process, own the underlying analysis, strategic synthesis, and preparation of strategic documents.</li> <li><strong>Business Unit Strategy:</strong> Act as an internal consultant, supporting our key business units across geographies on a project-by-project basis to develop their mid-term strategies and solve their most complex challenges.</li> <li><strong>M&amp;A Strategy:</strong> Drive workstreams for M&amp;A projects, building and owning financial models, analyzing targets, preparing negotiations and supporting the M&amp;A processes the team owns.</li> <li><strong>Portfolio Optimization:</strong> Contribute to the strategic analysis for key portfolio decisions, including potential geo-expansions, new vertical or brand launches or divestments.</li> <li><strong>Capital Allocation:</strong> Develop and improve the analytical frameworks and models to support our strategic budget allocation and ROI analysis.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>What you’ll bring</strong></h2> <ul> <li><strong>Experience:</strong> <strong>4+ years</strong> of high-performance experience from a top-tier Management Consulting firm, Investment Banking, or a comparable in-house Strategy / Corporate Development team.</li> <li><strong>Toolkit:</strong> Exceptional qualitative and analytical problem-solving skills. You are hypothesis-driven and can own and structure complex analytical problems from end-to-end. You are utilizing AI tools to meaningfully improve your productivity. Ability to build applications with AI coding tools is a plus.</li> <li><strong>Financial Acumen:</strong> Strong financial modeling skills are required: you have built and defended models used for investment or strategic decisions. Valuation experience is a plus. You are just as comfortable building analysis and models from scratch as you are managing processes and presenting recommendations to leadership.</li> <li><strong>DTC economics:</strong> You are comfortable working with typical DTC KPIs like CAC, AOR, AOV, CLV, retention and understand how cohort economics build a P&amp;L over time. DTC marketing analytics experience is a plus but not required.</li> <li><strong>Communication:</strong> Proactive 360° communication and excellent ability to synthesize complex analysis into clear, concise storylines, presentations<strong> </strong>and memos for an executive audience.&nbsp;</li> <li><strong>How you work:</strong> You take ownership of outcomes and pressure-test your own conclusions before presenting them. You go deep into the analysis to get to the right answer, and know when it is good enough to decide.</li> </ul> <h2><strong>What you will get in return:</strong></h2> <ul> <li>70% off HelloFresh or Green Chef boxes</li> <li>Company pension scheme</li> <li>Gym membership</li> <li>Bupa private medical insurance (including dental &amp; family cover options)</li> <li>Mental health first aiders and an employee assistance programme</li> <li>Nursery support scheme</li> <li>C

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