Strategy Growth & Execution Manager

Job Purpose and Impact

The Strategy Growth & Execution Manager will translate complex Food SEA-ANZ growth, category, product or other integrated strategies and insights into actionable excution plans with measurable business results. In this role, you will partner collaboratively with key stakeholders across sales, product line, category, R&D, supply chain and finance in Southeast Asia and New Zealand to drive the prioritization, phasing and resource management for growth initiatives to enable a cohesive approach while achieving strategic growth objectives.

Key Accountabilities

• Consolidate and align complex growth, category, product and other commercial strategies into one integrated annual execution roadmap with clear outcomes, owners, milestones and performance measures that gains synergies and ensures optimal use of resources.


• Connect growth strategy with execution by leading cross-functional initiatives and other activations that enable broader business strategies.


• Create and ensure a holistic growth plan with logical flow, smooth sequence and timing, strategic alignment and cross functional resource optimization, avoiding redundancy and tracking commercial, financial and operational performance to adjust the plan as necessary.


• Partner with sales, product line, category, R&D, supply chain and finance leaders to prioritize opportunities across markets and ensure appropriate resources to execute priority initiatives and create strong positive customer experiences.


• Dynamically update the growth plan based on market and business changes, analyze performance gaps and root causes, and adjust planned resources accordingly to maintain progress towards growth goals.


• Collaborate with broader business teams to run the planning process, establish governance, dashboards and review routines, and facilitate the flow of information and insights are shared across the cross-functional teams to improve business planning and performance.


• Develop and validate business cases, handle measurement and performance reporting across the elements of the growth plan, and confirm that agreed financial and operational value is delivered and sustained.


• Independently handle complex issues with minimal supervision, while escalating only the most complex issues to appropriate staff; influence senior leaders and stakeholders without direct authority.


• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, economics, finance, engineering, supply chain or a related field or equivalent experience


• Minimum of seven years of related work experience in strategy, transformation, business operations, commercial excellence or a related area.


• Other minimum qualificaitons may apply

Prior Benificial Experiences

•    Create general logical flow, smooth sequencing and timing, alignment and cross functional resource optimization to support a holistic marketinggrowth plan.
•    Participate in defining relevant marketing campaigns, promotions, events, tradeshows,Lead complex cross-functional initiatives and other activations that enable broader marketing strategiesin a matrix organization, converting strategic recommendations into implementation plans and measurable business results.
•    Management consulting, internal consulting or corporate strategy experience combined with hands-on operating experience or commercial excellence work; MBA preferred.
•    Experience in food ingredients, consumer goods or B2B commercial organizations across Southeast Asia, Australia & New Zealand or multi-market Asia-Pacific roles.

Key Behaviors

•    Plans and prioritizes work to meet commitments aligned with organizational goals.
•    Makes sense of complex, high quantity and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.
•    Applies knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization's goals.

Skills And Experiences To Be Gained

•    Provide thought leadership to consolidate and align highly complex and multi dimensional growth, category, product, brand and other marketing commercial strategies into one integrated marketingregional growth plan that gains synergies and ensures optimal use of resources.
•    Work as subject matter authority to connect marketinggrowth strategy with execution by defining relevant and strategic marketing campaigns, promotions, events, tradeshows,leading high-priority initiatives and other activations that enable broader marketingbusiness strategies.