Director, Corporate Strategy

Role Overview

• Drive analysis and action for top/bottom line growth as defined by the Segments.
• Support, advise, and direct workstreams and segment resources accountable for driving actionable deliverables from P2W Charters, while ensuring connections across the integrative layer required for success.
• Create process and templates for an integrated business plan that gets updated annually, to ensure Segment and Functional strategies are aligned with robust action plans to support growth and fill capability gaps in line with P2W goals.
• Work with Segment teams to better define/uplevel opportunities/possibilities and jointly develop analysis and action plans to move forward against growth goals within prescribed timelines.
• Integrate Office of Transformation tools into Segment workstreams to effect project management enhancements that work toward clear deliverables to result in value added outcomes and/or ongoing dependencies for other projects.
• Ensure visibility across the organization as needed.
• Develop process for global risk monitoring – Summarize a portfolio of disruptors that could have negative implications if not properly understood and actioned upon. Requires working cross functionally to generate input and insights to environmental, political, economic, supply chain, competitive, and technology disruptors, their status, directional movement, leading indicators, implications for INGR, and options for mitigation.
• Develop processes and communication tools (e.g. dashboards) to keep all teams updated on strategy and risk monitoring activities.
• Consulting ombudsman – work with segments and functions to optimize the effectiveness of using consultants for projects that have strategic implications. Work with teams to align key objectives of the work to be done, and ensure the scope, approach, and most importantly, deliverables of the project are best positioned to meet stated objectives.
• Build followership: invest in team relationships, provide coaching and mentoring, provide inspiration to others (including feedback and high-performance team management principles) as P2W becomes further integrated into the organization.
• Be a key driver in role modeling the how, why, and what of the upgraded operating model, while also providing consistent feedback for continuous improvement on new ways of working.
• Identify and oversee the impacts and interdependencies between Segment and Function charters and work to ensure alignment so that initiatives meet the goals and objectives of projects and workstreams.
• Be especially cognizant of commercial ways of working so that goals and objectives are developed within the context of customer and consumer needs.
• Support the development of management systems integral to the success of prioritized strategies and ensure the ability to measure and report when applicable, including the facilitation of changes needed to systems and frameworks.

Requirements

• Significant experience in strategy consulting or equivalent corporate strategy experience, including corporate strategy, management consulting, corporate development, or adjacent enterprise‑facing roles.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex business situations, manage multiple concurrent projects, and deliver solutions using a consultant style skill set, including structured problem solving, hypothesis driven analysis, and executive facilitation.
• Ability to work with teams across all aspects of the organization, including segments, functions, geographies (including commercial), and the ELT.
• Enhances team discussions with facilitations skills that both challenge existing mindsets and work toward consensus, as needed.
• Exceptional analytical skills and financial acumen
• affinity for data-driven insights to making decisions and creating a track record of demonstrable results.
• Significant experience managing large impactful global projects, e.g. operating model design, M&A integration, enterprise strategy, and other transformational situations that require large team and data set management.
• Exceptional AI/modeling/math skills
• Proficient in IT tools to optimize the performance of remote teams as well as project management tools (e.g., MS Project and auxiliary tools).
• Demonstrated ability in leading cross-functional teams.
• Ability to travel Internationally.

Benefits

• Total Rewards Package – Competitive salary and performance-based pay recognizing your contributions to our success
• Comprehensive Benefits & Wellness Support – Health, long-term savings, and resources for your physical, mental, and emotional well-being
• Career Growth – Learning, training, and development opportunities, including tuition reimbursement
• Employee Recognition Program – A culture of real-time appreciation, with personalized recognition rewards globally
• Employee Discount Program – Provides exclusive discounts on everyday products, services, and travel