Manager Strategy- Czech Republic
We’ve built the world’s most successful tobacco company, with the world’s most popular and iconic brands. A few years ago, we’ve decided to build PMI’s future on smoke-free products - completely new, innovative product platforms. Our dream is to convert every adult smoker that would otherwise continue to smoke, to these smoke-free platforms. To help us achieve our dream, we need your help!
For our Strategy & Program Delivery (S&PD) team we are currently looking for a S&PD Manager
WHAT WILL YOUR ROLE BE?
As a S&PD lead, you will work on supporting the strategy formulation, leading/supporting key strategic initiatives with multi-year impact as well as identifying and validate new business opportunities. In addition, you will support the development and execution of market strategy through cross-functional collaboration, performing insights collection, analysis and narration, long range planning and decision making – by also liaising with regional and global stakeholders.
WHAT WILL BE YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES?
Contribute and later drive key strategic projects across the organization for our business leaders: strategic projects cover commercial, external affairs, new businesses, new market entry, new business model development, growth hacking and profitability improvements
Drive end to end strategic project execution solving core business problems for functions/markets/regions/business category
Lead analysis and workstreams intellectual agenda, structure, and drive complex problem solving as core part of the strategy project
Drive the execution by mastering fact-based analyses, competitive intelligence, consumer insights, route to market insights and by identifying, facilitating recommendations to achieve optimal solutions
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
Orchestrate and facilitate PM CR projects/initiatives governance
Support executive presentations preparation and ad-hoc analysis as requested by market/regional/global MT
CRITICAL CAPABILITIES?
• Outstanding strategic thinking, problem solving and analytics capabilities, delivering 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
WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR?
Strategy development toolkit (industry analytics, consumer insight, strategy development, business plan development, financial modelling)
University/College degree, preferably in economics
8+ years of professional experience in business & strategic planning and/or management consulting and/or commercial planning & data analytics
Additional consumer goods or retail, consumer electronics, retail financial services, telecom, and fashion a plus
Advanced written, communication and presentation skills
Good influencing and stakeholder management skills, able to advise and constructively challenge senior team members
Able to prioritize and work effectively, independently and with a team
Curiosity, international experience, cultural openness, and command of English are essential with further language capabilities being a plus
WHAT WE OFFER:
We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits package such as:
Flexible working hours / home office possibility
25 vacation days and 4 sick days
Summer/winter vacation contribution
11 000 points in Benefit Café, Multisport card, Meal tickets
Life & accident insurance, Pension plan with contribution (3rd pillar)
benefit car