Growth & Strategy Lead

This position will support day-to-day PMO cadence. The role also works across functions to coordinate strategy planning, run transformation governance, consolidate business performance, prepare executive reporting and provide targeted analysis where additional fact base is required.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

Strategy Formulation & Portfolio

• Coordinate functional inputs, workplans and timelines for Commercial Review, the 5-year strategy refresh and MD planning topics, consolidating the fact base into clear options, implications and first cut recommendations for SM review.
• Support execution monitoring, coordinating growth initiatives with short- and long-term business planning.

Strategic PMO & Transformation Delivery

• Run the day-to-day PMO cadence across priority programs, maintaining plans, milestones, dependencies, risks and decision logs while tracking progress, adoption and value indicators.
• Prepare SteerCo / leadership materials and ensure agreed actions are followed through to closure.

Business Performance & Decision Support

• Own the governance of inputs, ensuring completeness, consistency, timeliness and version control across recurring management reporting.
• Prepare and maintain strategic updates, Flash Call, Group / Region submissions, monthly / quarterly reports and selected ad-hoc / executive materials under SM guidance.
• Consolidate functional performance views into an integrated fact base and conduct targeted deep dives / research where existing outputs are insufficient to explain performance or support management decisions.

Operational Effectiveness & Value Capture

• Develop targeted business cases, ROI / value-tracking analyses and opportunity sizing to assess whether initiatives are delivering the expected return.
• Deliver actionable insights through structured analysis, market trends, and competitive intelligence.

JOB REQUIREMENTS:

• 5+ years in strategy, consulting, transformation, PMO, corporate planning, commercial or finance roles.
• FMCG/ consumer-business experience preferred.
• Fluent in English, Advanced Excel & PowerPoint; comfortable working with data.
• Structured problem solving and strategic thinking.
• Executive communication and management storytelling.
• Cross-functional stakeholder management and influencing.
• High ownership and comfort with ambiguity.