Ssa Strategy Manager

7 months ago

Johannesburg, South Africa Mondelēz International Full time

**Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?**

**Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Matter.**

You will support category-changing initiatives in partnership with marketing, RDQ, finance and other functions. You will bring a deep understanding of consumer trends and needs, business models as well as our competitors' strategies.

**How you will contribute**

You will:

- Drive dialogue with Marketing, RDQ, Finance, other functions to assess and recommend business solutions. Inspire and influence cross functional, multi-regional teams and engage both internal and external partners to support superior product innovation, business model innovation etc. which deliver sustainable, incremental and profitable revenue potential
- Support strategic innovation roadmap
- Support innovation process, cross functionally from concept to commercialization
- Secure successful roll out of existing bundle in white space markets
- Support regions with best practices on winning bundle

**What you will bring**

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career with experience and knowledge in:

- Excellent communicator with outstanding influencing and remote management skills
- Strategy and / or Marketing management experience gained in FMCG and / or consulting
- Strong business acumen combined with strategic and analytical thinking in a multinational, multifunctional environment
- High drive for results and resilience
- Strong ability to operate in a complex, ambiguous business structure

**More about this role**:
**Purpose**

Mondelēz AMEA now operates as a Business Unit (BU-led) model organization to enable a more agile and consumer-centric strategy. Sub-Sahara Africa is one of the key Business Units managing businesses on categories such as Chocolates, Biscuits, Gum & Candy, Beverages & Meals. The Business Units lead the development and implementation of strategies for the growth of the total business, which includes managing the P&L.

The company’s strategic imperative is to deliver strong topline and bottom-line growth. SSA’s mission as a business unit, is to drive volume-driven and dollar profitable growth. Among the key strategic initiatives are to improve Marketing Effectiveness and drive Marketing Return On Investment (ROI) as well as optimize category/brand portfolio (Price Pack Architecture), ultimately leading to sustainable growth.

The **SSA Strategy Manager** is part of the SSA Strategy Team which also includes Revenue Management.

The key purpose of this position is to provide Business Analytics and Problem solving that drive agile fact-based decisions and business growth in SSA. Specifically, this position is expected to establish, strengthen and advance Business Strategy, address Key Business Questions, Investment decisions, partner with Commercial Sales and Marketing and support Revenue Management and our broader Sustainability agenda. This position requires the right balance of analytics skills and business acumen and strong ability to communicate and partner with other functions, along with strong leadership qualities.

This role will require close collaboration with other functions: Category Insights, Shopper Insights Managers, Marketing, Media, Strategy, Finance, Category Planning & Activation (Sales) and Customer Service & Logistics, Manufacturing across categories in SSA.

**Key Responsibilities**

**Business Strategy and Insights**
- Lead research and develop insights, both quantitative and qualitative, analyse data to develop an understanding of the business environment
- Evaluate and define competitive landscape for new and existing competitors
- Package the insights in charts / reports / presentations and other outputs to communicate findings to key stakeholders
- Identify key business opportunities within the BU, articulate the business case and develop relevant solutions to solve complex problems across the BU
- Assist BUPO in preparation of key stakeholder meetings by providing relevant information and preparing presentations as required e.g. Bottler Conference, Annual Kick -Offs, Senior Group/ Corporate official visits
- Build value based and strategic “win-win” relationships with key stakeholders at all levels

**Strategic Planning**
- Develop the long term plan that will be implemented by reviewing and establishing strategic priorities and converts them to quantitative and actionable plans
- Ensure that current plans provide focus, improves operations, increases collaboration and sets priorities
- Identify the specific time and resources needed to meet business goal
- Align the long term roadmap with commercial programs from Marketing and Sales
- Use analytics for benchmarking initial results to measure long-term market trends which aid in making financial and resource decisions
- Identify gaps in the business and advice on the corrective actions necessary
- Enable innovation and creativity to develop new winning strategies
- Ensure that th

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