Senior Manager, Corporate Strategy & Development (all genders)

HelloFresh SE; Berlin; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

HelloFresh Pension Scheme

Berlin relocation support

Hybrid working model

HelloFresh Academy

Mental health support

Job summary

HelloFresh SE is seeking a Senior Manager for Corporate Strategy & Development to drive high-impact analyses and support the Group CEO on key decisions. You will own end-to-end strategic workstreams, including financial modeling, portfolio optimization, and capital allocation, across geographies in a fast-growing, AI-enabled team.

You’ll partner with senior leadership to shape mid-term strategy, evaluate M&A opportunities, and implement data-driven insights that improve efficiency and growth

Qualifications

• Experience with top-tier management consulting, investment banking, or in-house strategy teams.
• Strong qualitative and quantitative problem-solving capabilities.
• Ability to build and defend financial models for strategic decisions.
• Familiarity with DTC metrics like CAC, AOV, CLV and retention.

Responsibilities

• Support mid-term group strategy development with analysis and documentation.
• Act as internal consultant to business units across geographies on strategic plans.
• Drive M&A workstreams, build financial models and support negotiations.
• Contribute to portfolio decisions including geo-expansion or new ventures.
• Develop analytics frameworks to improve budgeting and ROI.

Skills

Analytical problem-solving

Hypothesis-driven approach

AI tooling proficiency

AI coding tools knowledge

Financial modeling

DTC KPI fluency

Executive communication

Owning end-to-end analyses

Job description

At HelloFresh, our mission is simple: to change the way people eat, forever. As a global digital-native FMCG company and the world's leading mealkit provider, we are transforming the traditional food supply chain through a data-driven, on-demand model that enables scalable and more sustainable food delivery. The HelloFresh Group includes eight brands serving customers across multiple meal occasions, including HelloFresh, Green Chef, EveryPlate, and Chefs Plate, as well as ready-to-eat meals from Factor and YouFoodz, meat and seafood subscriptions through Good Chop, and pet nutrition with The Pets Table. Through technology, data, and culinary innovation, we deliver personalized food experiences to millions of households worldwide.

The role

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.

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, presentationsand 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?