Role: Senior Strategy & Transformation Analyst, Violife
Location: Hybrid (2 days in office per week), office in Hackensack, NJ (~30min commute from much of Manhattan with shuttle support to and from the office)
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.
Flora Food Group, formerly Upfield, is the world's leading independently owned plant-based foods company and has been a KKR portfolio company since 2018 (spun off from Unilever). In 2020 Flora Food Group acquired Violife, which has grown to become the #1 Plant-Based Cheese brand globally and the only true global player with a top two share position across most markets in North America and Europe. The Plant-Based Cheese category is viewed by many as the last-frontier of plant-based food and Violife is working to bring an inflection point to the category similar to what has happened in many other plant-based categories.
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.
- 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.
- Synthesize business data & insights needs across markets to develop a global learning plan and support execution of priority business data & insights projects (e.g., dynamic performance reporting dashboard).
- 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 Flora Food Group 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 Flora Food Group organization.
Skills, Behaviors, and Minimum Requirements:
- Trailblazer with “Always Day 1” mindset. Driven, entrepreneurial, and analytical.
- At least 2-3 years of experience in the CPG industry, management consulting, and / or investment banking.
- 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 a plus.
- Passionate about the food industry and the plant-based food movement.
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