Digital Business Development & Strategy Manager

Habit Burger & Grill is part of Pizza Hut’s Global Digital & Technology organization, seeking a Digital Business Development & Strategy Manager to drive global digital market expansion and product growth. This role involves managing business development planning, discovering new markets, and ensuring digital initiatives align with commercial priorities.

Responsibilities:

• Manage and evolve the digital product and market expansion pipeline
• Lead business development planning sessions and goal tracking
• Identify opportunities to expand existing digital products into new markets
• Evaluate and prioritize new market entry opportunities
• Prepare and lead market alignment activities
• Partner with Finance to develop commercial proposals and financial models
• Track business development initiatives throughout the full sales cycle
• Identify unmet digital product needs and build compelling business cases
• Lead structured market discovery efforts for net-new products and expansion markets
• Align cross-functional partners (Product, Design, Engineering, Marketing, Operations) during discovery and validation
• Translate discovery insights into actionable delivery plans
• Analyze digital business performance and develop executive-ready insights
• Support content and reporting for Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs)
• Conduct quarterly market leadership meetings and prepare agenda, content and speakers
• Identify performance trends and recommend corrective actions
• Provide regular updates to Leadership and Finance on business health and growth trajectory

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Strategy, Finance, Communications or a related field
• 5+ years of experience in business development, strategy, digital product, consulting, or a related role
• Proven experience evaluating complex decisions, developing business cases, and supporting go-to-market decisions
• Strong analytical skills with experience translating complex inputs into clear, executive-ready insights and recommendations
• Experience building financial models, commercial proposals, or investment cases in partnership with Finance or business leaders
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives across Product, Design, Engineering, Marketing, Operations, and Finance
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at multiple levels
• Strong project management and organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, global environment
• Experience working in global, matrixed organizations and supporting international market expansion initiatives
• Background in digital, e-commerce, restaurant, retail, franchise, or consumer technology environments
• Experience facilitating executive leadership meetings, or other senior stakeholder forums
• Familiarity with product discovery, market validation, and commercialization processes for digital products