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Strategy/Transformation Role

The Husqvarna Group has been taking steps to decentralize and transform its organization and ways of working to increase focus and speed. The Gardena Division recently implemented a new organizational structure with autonomous business units centered around product categories supported by a global Sales and Marketing team. The business units are able to execute with speed and precision since they are fully empowered. We want you to join us at this pivotal stage, providing the strategic guidance and expertise so critical to our success!

The Strategy/Transformation Lead for the Gardena Division plays a vital role in shaping the future of the division and ensuring alignment with the overarching strategic framework of the Husqvarna Group. This role is responsible for guiding the division's strategic direction, managing potential M&A activities, and providing insights through market intelligence and lead or support in complex or strategic projects.

The role is responsible to create and maintain the network of other strategy related roles within the division and with relevant Group resources.

Preferably this role will be based in Ulm, Germany.

More specifically, key focus areas of the role include:

• Strategy Development: Lead and coordinate the development of our division's strategy, ensuring that it aligns with our long-term goals and the Group strategy.
• Strategic Program Management: Oversee the execution of our division's strategic program, ensuring that it progresses according to plan and meets our strategic objectives.
• M&A Strategy Leadership for the division: Own the M&A agenda, working closely with the Category and Sales Region teams to identify, assess, and execute M&A opportunities under the supervision of the President and CFO of the Division.
• Strategic Advisor: Act as a strategic advisor to the Divisional Management team, offering guidance and recommendations to shape our strategic decisions, direction, trends and macro / competitor landscape.
• Strategy Process Lead: Develop and lead the strategy development process, ensuring that strategic initiatives are carried out effectively, that relevant KPI’s / targets are tracked and coordinated.
• Coordinate and Periodically Assess Strategy Programs: Conduct regular assessments of our strategic program's progress and effectiveness and make adjustments as necessary.
• Communication and Buy-in: Support division-wide communication, presentations, knowledge sharing, and buy-in of the strategy and M&A related initiatives among all relevant stakeholders, including Management Team, Group Management and Board of Directors.
• Lead, support and coordinate strategic divisional projects: Lead or support in divisional high-priority projects and analysis as requested by the divisional management team.
• Support the management team with analysis and presentations in areas such as market intelligence and Board material

Qualifications

• A minimum of a Master's degree in a relevant field, such as Engineering, Business, or equivalent.
• Proficiency in both written and spoken English (german language an advantage)
• Seven to ten years of experience in setting up strategy frameworks, processes, and implementation, preferably including business modeling, go-to-market strategies, and service innovation.
• Experience in complex project management, preferably in a global organizational setup with remote teams, preferably in a matrix organization.
• Strong analytical skills including advanced Excel and analytics (e.g. Power BI) skills
• Strong financial and business acumen, preferably from the Industrial Equipment, Construction or Manufactured products areas
• Strong communication skill both written / presentation and spoken
• Previous experience in M&A due diligence, negotiations, and a basic understanding of transactional and contract laws.
• Advantageous to have experience working in a growth mode business, as well as a cost focused / turnaround environment

Skills and Capabilities: (Customer focused, Growth oriented, Develops people and teams)

• Intercultural competence and mind-set and a proven team-player
• Entrepreneurial spirit with a high self-motivation
• Hands on mentality combined with ability of strategic thinking
• Open minded, target orientated personality with ambitions to deliver agreed goals
• Good horizontal management competence, building on a combination of a ‘sleeves-up’ mentality, coaching skills and strong analytical and communication skills
• Able to work in a very positive collaborative way with other functions within the Division and in alignment with other divisional Strategy Leads
• Strong influencing skills and intercultural skills with the ability to develop and leverage strong, trust-based relationships at multiple levels to effectively influence decision-making and anchor the strategy agenda throughout the organization

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