Position Title:  Manažer Strategy & Program Delivery CZ

Manager Strategy & Program Delivery – Czech Republic

We’ve built the world’s most successful tobacco company, with the world’s most popular and iconic brands. A few years ago, we’ve decided to build PMI’s future on smoke-free products - completely new, innovative product platforms. Our dream is to convert every adult smoker that would otherwise continue to smoke, to these smoke-free platforms. To help us achieve our dream, we need your help!

For our Strategy & Program Delivery (S&PD) team we are currently looking for a S&PD Lead.

WHAT WILL YOUR ROLE BE?

As a S&PD manager, you will work on supporting the strategy formulation, leading/supporting key strategic initiatives with multi-year impact as well as identifying and validate new business opportunities. In addition, you will support the development and execution of market strategy through cross-functional collaboration, performing insights collection, analysis and narration, long range planning and decision making – by also liaising with regional and global stakeholders.

WHAT WILL BE YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES?

• Contribute and/or drive key strategic projects across the organization for our business leaders: strategic projects cover commercial, external affairs, new businesses, new market entry, new business model development, growth hacking and profitability improvements
• Drive Czech market strategy cycle, including Long range plan (LRP) preparation, support of annual budget (OB) cycle and annual objectives, goals, strategies and measurements (OGSM) implementation – in close alignment with local and regional leadership
• Lead analysis and workstreams intellectual agenda, structure, and drive complex problem solving as core part of the strategy project
• Drive the execution by mastering fact-based analyses, competitive intelligence, consumer insights, route to market insights and by identifying, facilitating recommendations to achieve optimal solutions
• Get buy in on recommendations and translate strategic choices into actions by communicating and pitching to a large set of key stakeholders, with synthesis and with a bias for action
• Orchestrate and facilitate Philip Morris CR projects/initiatives governance
• Support executive presentations preparation and ad-hoc analysis as requested by market/regional/global MT

CRITICAL CAPABILITIES?

•           Outstanding strategic thinking, problem solving and analytics capabilities, delivering complex strategy workstreams requiring senior stakeholders’ management in a fast-paced environment

•           Ability and passion to drive change in large and complex organizations and ability to manage ambiguity, delivering under uncertainty

•           Entrepreneurial, biased to action and roll-up-your-sleeves mindset with a high degree of assertiveness and independence, balanced with maintaining highly collaborative and agile ways of working, able to facilitate team meetings and drive tangible outcomes, motivating a diverse and international team of stakeholders

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR?

• Strategy development toolkit (industry analytics, consumer insight, strategy development, business plan development, financial modelling)
• University/College degree, MBA is a plus
• 7+ years of professional experience in business & strategic planning and/or management consulting and/or commercial planning & data analytics
• Additional consumer goods or retail, consumer electronics, retail financial services, telecom, and fashion a plus
• Advanced written, communication and presentation skills
• Good influencing and stakeholder management skills, able to advise and constructively challenge senior team members
• Able to prioritize and work effectively, independently and with a team
• Curiosity, international experience, cultural openness, and command of English are essential with further language capabilities being a plus

WHAT WE OFFER:

We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits package such as:

• Flexible working hours / home office possibility
• 25 vacation days and 4 sick days
• Summer/winter vacation contribution
• 15 000 points in Benefit Café, Multisport card, Meal tickets
• Life & accident insurance, Pension plan with contribution (3rd pillar)