Strategy & Transformation Sr. Analyst- Violife - Flora Food Group
Hackensack, NJ
About the Job
About Flora Food Group
We offer consumers a compelling choice in four growing categories: butters and spreads, creams, liquids and cheeses. We hold leadership positions in many of the 100 countries we operate in, with iconic brands including Flora, Becel+ProActiv, Blue Band, Country Crock, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, Rama, and Violife, together with our local brands and Professional business.
Global branded food champion Flora Food Group, offers the next generation of delicious, natural, nutritious food. Our products are more affordable and more sustainable than their dairy equivalents.
Location- Hackensack, NJ- 2X Per week- Shuttle from NYC
Base Salary up to 135K
About the Company & Role
We are on a mission to transform the future of food and are looking for a rock-star Senior Strategy & Transformation Analyst for the Global Violife business to help us blaze this trail.
About the role!
This role will report directly to the Global Head of Strategy & Transformation for Violife and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the business, with significant exposure to the Global President & Chief Growth Office (CGO) for Violife. Main responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Drive priority strategy & transformation projects (e.g., channel strategy, portfolio rationalization, etc.), often including leading global, cross-functional teams.
- Thought partnership and support running the office of the Global Violife President & CGO, including preparing for key senior leadership and board of directors meetings.
- Synthesize consumer & market insights (CMI) needs across markets to develop a global learning plan and support execution of priority CMI projects.
- Manage recurring C-Suite communication on business performance in partnership with local market leads.
- Support recurring strategic planning initiatives, including close partnership with markets to develop both long term and annual plans.
- Ad hoc analysis to support priority C-Suite requests often including P&L and / or syndicated data analysis (e.g., attractiveness of adjacent categories, competitive benchmarking, etc.)
About You
We're looking for a globally minded, critical thinker, and self-starter who is passionate about plant-based food and what makes consumers tick. The global Violife team is a lean, dynamic, and entrepreneurial team within the larger Upfield organization and has a big ambition to step change the Plant-Based Cheese category and bring the Violife brand to billion-dollar status by 2030. Comfort with ambiguity in a fast paced, global, and matrixed environment will be critical to thriving in this role. The Senior Strategy & Transformation Analyst will be expected to be a Swiss army knife providing everything from cross-functional project management to analytical firepower, working with a wide range of stakeholders throughout the Upfield organization.
Skills, Behaviors, and Minimum Requirements:
- Trailblazer with "Always Day 1" mindset. Driven, entrepreneurial, and analytical.
- At least 2-3 years of experience in management consulting and CPG
- Strong strategic and analytical skillset with fluency in Excel and PowerPoint and ability to derive insight from data.
- Disciplined project management and organizational skills
- Experience working across geographies. Role includes some travel to and close partnership with markets across North America and Europe.
- Bachelor's Degree required.
- Experience with Nielsen, Euromonitor, and other syndicated / market research resources
- Passionate about the food industry and the plant-based food movement.
Compensation range: Base salary $120K to $140K based on experience, expertise and other legitimate, non-discriminatory factors. Position includes annual bonus opportunity and other competitive health and welfare benefits.
What's next
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What's next
If this position sounds interesting, please hit the apply button now!
We understand your resume might not be up to date and recommend that you apply with what you have or your LinkedIn Profile. Upfield is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workplace, we understand that you might not meet all the requirements stated in the description, but we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the right candidate for this role or other roles.
Upfield is an employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and equal opportunities for all. We recruit based only on values, qualifications, performance, skills, behaviours, experience, and knowledge. We ensure job advertisements are free from unintentional bias.
No personal characteristics should be a barrier to joining Upfield. We prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or other personal characteristics.
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We understand your resume might not be up to date and recommend that you apply with what you have or your LinkedIn Profile. Flora Food Group is dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workplace, we understand that you might not meet all the requirements stated in the description, but we encourage you to apply anyway. You might be the right candidate for this role or other roles.
Flora Food Group is an employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and equal opportunities for all. We recruit based only on values, qualifications, performance, skills, behaviours, experience, and knowledge. We ensure job advertisements are free from unintentional bias.
No personal characteristics should be a barrier to joining Flora Food Group. We prohibit discrimination and harassment based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or other personal characteristics.
