Strategic Projects Associate: Growth & Analytics

SmartRecruiters, Inc.; Zürich; On-site; CHF 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Sika, a global specialty chemicals company, seeks a Strategic Projects Associate to join the Strategy Team in Zurich. The role offers high visibility on regional projects and direct exposure to senior stakeholders and Group Management.

You will design and deliver solutions to drive growth and efficiency, gathering insights, analyzing data, and supporting strategic planning and hands-on execution with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business, Engineering or similar.
• Min. 3–4 years of experience with strategic projects and data analysis at a top consulting company.
• Experience with analysis, process & concept design and implementation phases in a workstream lead role.
• Strong ability to connect the dots and create compelling stories for top management.
• Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills with translating data insights into action.
• High autonomy with an entrepreneurial mindset and can-do attitude.
• Positive, energetic mindset with innovative ideas.
• Proficiency in Excel and Office, knowledge of Tableau/BI is a plus.
• Fluency in English; German is a plus.
• Based in Zurich with willingness for occasional international travel.

Responsibilities

• Interpret data, analyse results and define actions with Business, Marketing, Supply Chain and Operations stakeholders to solve key business challenges.
• Identify new opportunities provided by data to generate insights for the business and support growth.
• Support countries/areas to review strategic business plans and translate into operations footprints via workshops, drumbeats and storytelling guidance.
• Analyse the impact of M&A activity on country masterplans and assist local teams during integration processes.
• Improve current processes and lead roll-out of new solutions across country organizations.
• Draft presentations and data visualizations for top-management leveraging insights from data analysis/workshops/researches.
• Create strong link with cross-functional teams to introduce and expand innovative solutions.

Skills

Strategic projects

Data analysis

Storytelling for top management

Problem solving

Analytical thinking

Autonomy & entrepreneurial mindset

Cross-functional collaboration

Excel

Office suite

Tableau / BI knowledge

English fluency

German language (nice-to-have)

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Business or Engineering

Tools

Excel

Tableau / BI

Job description

Sika, a global specialty chemicals company, seeks a Strategic Projects Associate to join the Strategy Team in Zurich. The role offers high visibility on regional projects and direct exposure to senior stakeholders and Group Management.

You will design and deliver solutions to drive growth and efficiency, gathering insights, analyzing data, and supporting strategic planning and hands-on execution with cross-functional teams.