Global Strategy Leader – Consumer Foods Growth

Ornua Co-operative Limited; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Ornua Co-operative Limited in Ireland seeks a Global Strategy Manager to shape enterprise strategy across the Consumer Foods sector. You will partner with leadership to identify growth opportunities, drive planning, and lead high-impact initiatives supporting global execution.

The role emphasizes translating insights into action, executive storytelling, and influencing senior stakeholders across geographies.

Qualifications

• 5–10 years’ experience in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) sector.
• Experience in strategy, sales and marketing, or management consulting.
• Proven track record of translating analysis into practical business decisions and execution plans.
• Strong market and competitor analysis capability.
• Ability to facilitate planning workshops with senior leaders.
• Ability to develop clear, executive-level presentations.
• Demonstrated ability to drive strategic initiatives through to implementation.
• Customer Focus: Advocates for the customer, balances customer and business needs, and spots opportunities for growth.
• Forward-Looking: Helps others to accept change, implements change, and looks ahead to anticipate change.
• Curious: Open to asking questions and willing to learn and continuously improve.
• Working Together: Encourages co-operation in own team and supports cross-functional working.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate on the development, refinement and deployment of corporate and business unit strategies, translating long-term ambitions into clear strategic priorities, roadmaps and value creation plans.
• Growth Opportunity Identification & Market Analysis: Identify, size and assess growth opportunities across markets, customers, channels, categories and geographies, providing fact-based recommendations on where the organisation should invest, compete and win.
• Strategic Planning Governance: Coordinate the annual and multi-year planning process, helping ensure that business unit Operational Masterplans (OMPs), functional priorities and commercial plans align to group strategy and deliver measurable outcomes.
• Strategic Project Leadership: Lead cross-functional strategic initiatives from hypothesis through execution, including growth programmes, performance improvement projects, market entry assessments, business reviews and transformation initiatives.
• Stakeholder Influence: Develop compelling executive / leadership materials that synthesise complex analysis into clear strategic choices, recommendations and action plans.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Market analysis

Executive comms

Stakeholder mgmt

CPG familiarity

Job description

Ornua Co-operative Limited in Ireland seeks a Global Strategy Manager to shape enterprise strategy across the Consumer Foods sector. You will partner with leadership to identify growth opportunities, drive planning, and lead high-impact initiatives supporting global execution.

The role emphasizes translating insights into action, executive storytelling, and influencing senior stakeholders across geographies.