10508 Director of Strategy

About the role

The Director of Strategy oversees strategic initiatives, improves business processes, and supports the company's long-term success through informed decision-making and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Translate corporate strategy into clear strategic priorities, initiatives, and execution roadmaps across business units and functions.
• Develop and implement strategies for major growth areas by identifying opportunities, setting priorities, creating business cases, and guiding cross-functional teams to achieve impactful business outcomes.
• Ensure consistent execution of strategic initiatives through disciplined governance, standardized methodologies, and regular performance reviews.
• Own and manage the enterprise portfolio of strategic initiatives, ensuring prioritization, resource allocation, dependency management, and benefits realization.
• Establish and oversee an enterprise performance management framework, including strategic KPIs, scorecards, and dashboards aligned to company objectives.
• Lead regular strategy review and performance forums (monthly/quarterly), ensuring accountability, issue resolution, and course correction as needed.
• Act as the central coordination point between functions to resolve tradeoffs, manage interdependencies, and ensure alignment with strategic priorities.
• Track and validate the financial and operational impact of strategic initiatives, ensuring value capture and transparency.
• Orchestrates annual and long-range planning efforts to achieve priorities and drive performance and accountability for all business units.
• Ensure the planning and budgeting process is aligned with the Company’s strategy and strategic initiatives.
• Develop and implement governance structures to enable effective decision making and execution across departments and organizations.
• Responsible for the organization’s data consumption, publication, and comprehensive visualization of information to support strategic and operational decisions.
• Maintain efficient B2B service by leveraging deep knowledge of CPG customer service, order management, and claims processes within a DSD model.
• Ensure precise, accurate, and timely communication of strategic progress and results to the parent company and executive leadership.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a business-related field (e.g., Economics, Finance, Business Administration) is required.
• An MBA is required.
• 4+ years of total professional experience, with significant experience in Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) companies operating under a Direct Store Delivery (DSD) distribution model.
• Preferably at least 2 years in management consulting or enterprise strategy roles.
• 2+ years of people management experience, including experience managing large, cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated experience aligning corporate strategy with operational execution in complex, route-to-market and DSD environments.