Senior Manager Corporate Strategy

Be a part of a revolutionary change

At PMI, we’ve chosen to do something incredible. We’re totally transforming our business and building our future on smoke-free products with the power to deliver a smoke-free future.

With huge change, comes huge opportunity. So, wherever you join us, you’ll enjoy the freedom to dream up and deliver better, brighter solutions and the space to move your career forward in endlessly different directions.

As a Corporate Strategy Senior Manager in this group, you will collaborate with our business leaders to develop business strategy and deploy corporate initiatives across PMI. This highly visible position will give you the opportunity to be exposed to different leaders and stakeholders across the whole of the business. The scope of the role means that this is a tremendous growth and development opportunity for the right candidate.

Specific Responsibilities include:

• Drive several key strategic projects in alignment with PMI corporate strategy across the organization for our business leaders: strategic projects cover commercial, product development, new businesses, new market entry, new business model development, growth hacking and profitability improvements


• Drive multiple end-to-end strategic project execution solving core business problems for functions/markets/regions/business category


• Lead intellectual agenda, structure, and drive complex problem solving as core part of the strategy project


• Lead a project team in the development of fact-based analyses, financials, competitive intelligence, consumer insights, route to market insights and identifying, facilitating recommendations to achieve optimal solutions

Engage functional and business leaders to get buy-in on recommendations and translate strategic choices into actions by communicating and pitching to a large set of key stakeholders, with synthesis and with a bias for action

Critical Capabilities:

• Outstanding strategic thinking, problem solving and analytics capabilities, delivering multiple complex strategy workstreams requiring senior stakeholders’ management in a fast-paced environment


• Ability and passion to drive change in large and complex organizations and ability to manage ambiguity, delivering under uncertainty


• Entrepreneurial, biased to action and roll-up-your-sleeves mindset with a high degree of assertiveness and independence, balanced with maintaining highly collaborative and agile ways of working, able to facilitate team meetings and drive tangible outcomes, motivating a diverse and international team of stakeholders

Requirements:

• Strategy development toolkit (industry analytics, consumer insight, strategy development, business plan development, financial modelling)


• Ideally 8+ years total experience:

• Experience in strategy consulting – 3+ years in McKinsey, Bain or BCG or comparable strategy consulting environments in an engagement manager position


• Additional consumer goods or retail, consumer electronics, retail financial services, telecom, or fashion a plus


• Curiosity, international experience, cultural openness, and command of English are essential with further language capabilities being a plus

Preferred Requirements

• STEM/ Financial background

What we offer

• We genuinely care about our people, and we show this through living out our Employee Brand every day.  It is what connects every colleague in every market


• In additional to a competitive salary and benefits package, we offer a fantastic office environment and look to ensure you have the best work-life balance possible


• Our success depends on the people who come to work every single day with a sense of purpose and an appetite for progress

Join PMI and you too can:

• Be part of an inclusive, diverse culture, where everyone’s contribution is respected; collaborate with some of the world’s best people and feel like you belong.


• Pursue your ambitions and develop your skills with a global business – our size and scale provide endless opportunities to progress.


• Take pride in delivering our promise to society: to deliver a smoke-free future.