Global Strategy Manager

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

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We are seeking a commercially astute and analytically driven Global Strategy Manager to join our team and be focused on the Consumer Foods sector. The Global Strategy Manager will partner with leadership across the organisation to help shape enterprise strategy, identify growth opportunities, drive the strategic planning process, lead high-impact business initiatives, and convert insight into action across the global organisation.

Key Areas of Responsibility

• 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.

Key Skills / Attributes

• Strategic Thinking & Structured Problem Solving
  • Ability to frame ambiguous business issues, develop hypotheses, build issue trees and synthesise insights into practical recommendations.
• Strong understanding of P&Ls, value drivers, pricing, profitability, customer economics, category dynamics and investment prioritisation.
• Analytical & Research Capability
  • High-level of expertise in analytics, consumer and customer insight, competitive assessment, opportunity sizing and data-driven decision making.
• Executive Communication & Storytelling
  • Ability to distil complex analysis into concise executive narratives, board presentations and decision-ready recommendations.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, capable of aligning senior leaders across functions, regions and business units without direct authority.

Key Requirement/Attributes

• 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.

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 27th October, 2026