About the Role
The Corporate Strategy Manager plays a key role in shaping the Group's long-term vision and driving its strategic priorities. Collaborating closely with senior leadership, this position contributes to strategic planning and growth initiatives that create value across the organization. The role demands strategic thinking, strong analytical skills, and an understanding of the luxury industry, combined with proven experience in corporate strategy within the consumer goods sector.
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What You'll Be Doing
Strategy and Planning
- Collaborate with C-level executives to define the Group’s long-term vision and strategy.
- Co-lead the 3-year strategic planning process with the VP Strategy, covering commercial businesses and service entities.
- Develop scenario analyses, strategic forecasts, and contingency plans.
- Establish performance management frameworks, strategic KPIs, and reporting mechanisms.
Growth Initiatives
- Evaluate and support strategic initiatives and ventures across sectors and regions, focusing on categories, channels, portfolios, whitespace opportunities, and long-term bets, ensuring clear prioritization and trade-offs.
- Lead category projects from inception to execution, delivering accurate and high-quality outcomes.
Analysis and Insight
- Collaborate with the Intelligence team to monitor global and regional luxury trends, translating these insights into strategic choices.
- Analyze business challenges by synthesizing and challenging data, transforming findings into clear recommendations, including business cases and financial models.
- Create practical and innovative solutions to complex problems using industry best practices.
Influence and Leadership
- Present complex recommendations to senior leadership clearly and concisely, supporting informed decision-making.
- Build strong, enduring relationships with internal stakeholders.
- Lead and develop team members, promoting a culture of excellence.
What You’ll Need to Succeed
- 6-8 years of experience in an in-house corporate strategy role within a Group or Holding and top-tier management consulting.
- MBA or master’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, or a related field.
- Proven ability to manage high-performing teams and engage multiple stakeholders on complex projects.
- Strong strategic planning experience, business acumen, and a deep understanding of corporate operations.
- Advanced financial modeling skills and robust financial acumen.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a familiarity with market research, data analysis, and visualization techniques.
- Solid knowledge of the luxury, beauty, and fashion retail sectors.
- Excellent communication skills capable of presenting complex ideas clearly to senior stakeholders.
- Strong project management skills, emphasizing accuracy and attention to detail.
- Proactive, hands-on, and curious, exhibiting a collaborative team spirit.
What We Can Offer You
We provide a platform for you to turn your aspirations into reality through enriching experiences, learning and development opportunities, and exposure to diverse assignments within your role or through internal mobility. Our Group offers a range of career paths for extraordinary individuals.
We value your contributions and are committed to providing a competitive benefits package that includes healthcare, child education contributions, remote and flexible working policies, and exclusive employee discounts.
Using GenAI in Your Application Process
To ensure a fair and consistent experience for all candidates, we ask that assessments and interviews be completed independently without assistance from generative AI tools. This helps us understand your strengths, thinking processes, and approach to real-world situations.
We Invite All Applicants to Apply
Diversity of thought, culture, background, differing abilities, and perspectives are essential to truly inspire, exhilarate, and delight our customers. We welcome all applicants and are committed to inclusion and diversity, ensuring equal opportunity without regard to gender, age, race, religion, national origin, or disability status.
