Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy & Development (all genders)

HelloFresh; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Berlin relocation support

Hybrid working model

HelloFresh Academy

Learning & development budget

German language learning budget

Headspace access

Wellbeing and gym perks

Job summary

HelloFresh is seeking a Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy & Development to lead cross-functional strategy projects, including M&A and portfolio analysis. You’ll build financial models and present executive-ready outputs directly to leadership, reporting to the Director and working with a team that reports to the Group CEO.

You bring 4+ years of top-tier consulting or corporate development experience, strong financial acumen, and a track record of impactful strategic output.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of high‑performance experience from a top‑tier Management Consulting firm, Investment Banking, or a comparable in‑house Strategy / Corporate Development team.
• Hypothesis‑driven approach and ability to structure complex analytical problems end‑to‑end.
• Strong financial modeling skills; valuation experience is a plus.
• Familiarity with DTC KPIs (CAC, AOV, CLV) and cohort economics.

Responsibilities

• Support Group and business unit strategy, portfolio decisions and capital allocation.
• Drive M&A workstreams with financial models and target analyses.
• Develop and improve analytics for strategic budgeting and ROI analysis.
• Prepare executive‑level outputs and presentations for leadership.

Skills

Financial modeling

AI tooling

Analytical thinking

Executive storytelling

Ownership

Tools

Excel/Sheets

AI coding tools

Job description

As a Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy & Development, you will work in a small, AI enabled team of highly driven and committed individuals, reporting to the Director Corporate Strategy & Development. This is a high-exposure role, acting as the strategic and analytical engine for our most important decisions in a team that reports directly to the Group CEO. You will work across the team's full agenda: Group and business unit strategy, portfolio and capital allocation decisions, and M&A. You are hands‑on: you build the financial models, analysis and executive‑level outputs yourself. You work under the guidance of the team leadership, owning the quality of analysis and models within your workstreams as well as the respective internal stakeholder relationships.

What You’ll Do

• Corporate Strategy: Support the development of the Group's mid‑term strategy by driving the process, own the underlying analysis, strategic synthesis, and preparation of strategic documents.
• Business Unit Strategy: Act as an internal consultant, supporting our key business units across geographies on a project‑by‑project basis to develop their mid‑term strategies and solve their most complex challenges.
• M&A Strategy: Drive workstreams for M&A projects, building and owning financial models, analyzing targets, preparing negotiations and supporting the M&A processes the team owns.
• Portfolio Optimization: Contribute to the strategic analysis for key portfolio decisions, including potential geo‑expansions, new vertical or brand launches or divestments.
• Capital Allocation: Develop and improve the analytical frameworks and models to support our strategic budget allocation and ROI analysis.

What You’ll Bring

• Experience: 4+ years of high‑performance experience from a top‑tier Management Consulting firm, Investment Banking, or a comparable in‑house Strategy / Corporate Development team.
• Toolkit: Exceptional qualitative and analytical problem‑solving skills. You are hypothesis‑driven and can own and structure complex analytical problems from end‑to‑end. You are utilizing AI tools to meaningfully improve your productivity. Ability to build applications with AI coding tools is a plus.
• Financial Acumen: Strong financial modeling skills are required: you have built and defended models used for investment or strategic decisions. Valuation experience is a plus. You are just as comfortable building analysis and models from scratch as you are managing processes and presenting recommendations to leadership.
• DTC economics: You are comfortable working with typical DTC KPIs like CAC, AOR, AOV, CLV, retention and understand how cohort economics build a P&L over time. DTC marketing analytics experience is a plus but not required.
• Communication: Proactive 360 communication and excellent ability to synthesize complex analysis into clear, concise storylines, presentations and memos for an executive audience.
• How you work: You take ownership of outcomes and pressure‑test your own conclusions before presenting them. You go deep into the analysis to get to the right answer, and know when it is good enough to decide.

What We Offer

Elevate your lifestyle! Join one of Europe's fastest-growing tech powerhouses in a dynamic phase of expansion.

• Immerse yourself in a diverse global community of 90+ nationalities.
• Enjoy a competitive compensation package that goes beyond the norm, with perks like a HelloFresh – subsidized Pension Scheme, Berlin relocation support, and a Hybrid working model.
• Elevate your lifestyle with exclusive discounts on your weekly HelloFresh box and office meals.
• Invest in your growth with an annual learning & development budget, German language learning budget, and access to the HelloFresh Academy.
• Plus, we've got your well‑being covered with mental health support, transportation perks, and working‑parent-friendly benefits. From our 24/7 gym access, wellbeing platforms like Headspace and Spill, to sabbatical leave options, HelloFresh is not just a workplace; it's a lifestyle of perks and possibilities!

Are you up for the challenge?