At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead strategic initiatives and ensure seamless execution across teams and functions.
- Company: Dynamic organisation focused on innovation and collaboration.
- Benefits: Competitive salary, flexible working options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Join a team that values creativity and strategic thinking.
- Why this job: Shape impactful strategies and drive excellence in a fast-paced environment.
- Qualifications: Experience in leading complex projects and strong communication skills.
The predicted salary is between 60000 - 75000 £ per year.
Job Purpose Serve as the Strategy shape the team agenda and ways of working; and ensure actions and decisions are documented, communicated and driven to closure.
Lead integrated brand planning: translate strategy into an aligned set of priorities, milestones, dependencies and deliverables across functions, partnering with asset leaders (incl. the MCL) to ensure launch readiness and launch excellence, geographic expansion, and robust interlocks with associated functions.
Enable the MCT focus with a rolling mid‑term perspective: connect the dots across functions and markets, raise the bar on integrated strategic thinking and deliverables quality, and challenge teams to deliver against agreed objectives.
Convene the team with key markets to define and refine strategy, review progress surface barriers to execution; and, in support of the MCL, translate key messages, decisions and implications from MCT into parallel governance forums (MDT), aligning narratives, hand‑offs and decision timing across independent organisations.
Connect GPS deliverables to enterprise processes and timelines (e. g., Brand Plan, insight generation plans, performance management/MPR and earnings call briefings): orchestrate inputs, maintain consistency of narrative and data, and ensure on‑time, decision‑quality submissions.
Coordinate the planning and execution of the SG working proficiency in other European languages is an advantage.
Basic Qualifications Demonstrated experience leading complex work through others in a matrix (without direct authority), delivering outcomes on time and to a high quality bar.
Proven ability to run an operating model: establish governance, decision rights, business cadence, interlocks and disciplined follow‑through.
Strong business acumen with experience translating strategy into integrated plans (priorities, milestones, dependencies) and driving trade‑off discussions.
Experience connecting to enterprise rhythms and submissions (e. g., Brand Plan, performance management/MPR, leadership updates/briefings) with consistent narrative and data integrity.
Advanced problem framing and structured thinking; able to independently identify issues, quantify impact where possible, and present options and recommendations to senior leaders.
Executive‑level communication and stakeholder management skills, including facilitation of senior forums and challenging constructively to raise performance.
Working understanding of key commercial interfaces (e. g., Business Insights/Competitive Intelligence, Market Access) and end‑to‑end planning linkages (including S
