Senior Strategy Consultant

dunnhumby is the global leader in Customer Data Science, empowering businesses everywhere to compete and thrive in the modern data-driven economy. We always put the Customer First. Our mission: to enable businesses to grow and reimagine themselves by becoming advocates and champions for their Customers. With deep heritage and expertise in retail – one of the world’s most competitive markets, with a deluge of multi-dimensional data – dunnhumby today enables businesses all over the world, across industries, to be Customer First.

We’re looking for a Senior Strategy Manager who expects more from their career. Sitting within the Strategy and Propositions team, you will work closely with the Head of Strategy and the rest of the team to formulate multi-year organic & discontinuous growth strategy for the Tesco Media business. You will have strong analytical, critical thinking and storytelling skills and will be able to apply these skills to influence senior stakeholders across the ecosystem.

What you’ll be working on:

• Contribute to the development of 3-year strategic vision with clearly defined priorities anchored in market & business understanding.
• Collaborate with Business Planning team to translate 3-year vision into Annual plan, including defining goals, facilitating cross-functional alignment, developing OKR frameworks & securing approval.
• Define Annual Strategic priorities – topics that Strategy team should be answering in a given year.
• Take active interest in dh & Tesco strategies, exploring synergies and adjacencies that can help Tesco Media to accelerate its growth further.
• Participate in designing & lead the creation of bi-annual competitive monitoring report, providing strategic conclusions rooted in 360-degree comparisons of key Retail Media / Digital Ad commerce platforms across UK.
• Build share & learn relationship with non-competing retail organisations around the world.
• Act as an in-house consultant team for ad-hoc strategic questions and recommend options to the lead team and dh exec.

What we expect from you:

• Proven track record of delivering strategic projects (from situation analysis to business recommendations).
• Experience within retail, retail media, advertising and management consultancy.
• Strong business acumen, including financial planning, P&L and business models.
• Ability to manage full cycle of project from discovery, scoping to analysis & delivery.
• Proficiency in data analysis, insights identification and familiarity with basic modelling approaches (e.g. market sizing, pricing, etc.).
• Ability to formulate clear strategies, defining roadmaps & milestones.
• Familiarity with KPI frameworks and their deployment.
• Strong story-telling skills – able to synthesize insights in a clear & succinct manner, creating impactful outputs.
• Strong communication and relationship building skills with experience in simplifying complex content for diverse audiences.
• Experience managing stakeholders across varied seniority & functions.
• Strong understanding of media and publisher landscape – including key players, business models, technologies, etc.

What you can expect from us:

We won’t just meet your expectations. We’ll defy them. So you’ll enjoy the comprehensive rewards package you’d expect from a leading technology company. But also, a degree of personal flexibility you might not expect. Plus, thoughtful perks, like flexible working hours and your birthday off. You’ll also benefit from an investment in cutting-edge technology that reflects our global ambition. But with a nimble, small-business feel that gives you the freedom to play, experiment and learn.

Our approach to Flexible Working:

At dunnhumby, we value and respect difference and are committed to building an inclusive culture by creating an environment where you can balance a successful career with your commitments and interests outside of work. We believe that you will do your best at work if you have a work/life balance. Some roles lend themselves to flexible options more than others, so if this is important to you please raise this with your recruiter, as we are open to discussing agile working opportunities during the hiring process.