Director, Digital Strategy - Nestle USA

Nestlé SA; Arlington (TX); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Nestlé is seeking a Director of Digital Strategy to guide digital transformation and align strategies with business objectives. The role requires deep expertise in management consulting and digital solutions. Located in Arlington, Texas, this position involves collaboration across senior leadership, innovative projects, and a commitment to achieving strategic market goals.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in management consulting, corporate strategy, or digital transformation.
• 5+ years in a senior strategy role driving digital solutions.
• Experience in digital marketing, e-commerce, and customer experience management.

Responsibilities

• Develop and align enterprise digital transformation strategy.
• Support IT & Digital organization in leading transformation projects.
• Utilize data analytics to drive decision-making.

Skills

Leadership

Collaboration

Data Analytics

Strategic Planning

Digital Marketing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Information Technology, or related field

Job description

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Nestlé Information Technology is the digital arm of the world’s largest nutrition, health, and wellness company. With 150+ years in business, 2,000+ brands, and 270,000+ diverse team members—you’re joining an organization that’s revolutionizing food and championing global humanitarian efforts with technology at its core.

Joining Nestlé IT means you’ll never stop learning and sharpening new skills. Tools, technologies, and innovation for the next generation of food is part of it. Working with team members from different cultures and corners of the world on truly meaningful initiatives is what makes our work inspiring. Think beyond technology. Feel like you belong. Join a Force for Good.

This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.

Position Summary

Our IT & Digital organization is dedicated to leading as game changers by being business-centric and embracing a high-performing culture and growth mindset. Our mission is to create compelling experiences for consumers, customers, and employees, enabling us to win in the marketplace and fuel profitable growth. We prioritize making technology the "first solve" by harnessing the power of digital to transform the enterprise. This approach ensures that we stay ahead of the curve, driving innovation and efficiency across all aspects of our business.

We are seeking a Director of Digital Strategy to join our team. The Director will be responsible for developing and aligning a comprehensive enterprise digital transformation strategy across the organization to meet business objectives. This position involves creating the enterprise digital strategy and ensuring it aligns with the company's overall business goals. The Director will distinguish between strategy development and its integration into business priorities, while overseeing the execution of the digital strategy with core teams.

• Strategic Liaison: Act as the primary liaison to the Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer, providing insights on digital strategy initiatives and ensuring alignment with business objectives. Function as an advisor and ‘sentinel’, monitoring internal and external developments to inform strategic decisions and influence the direction of digital initiatives.
• Digital Transformation: Support the IT & Digital organization in leading digital transformation projects, including the adoption of reimagined workflows through GenAI, automation, digital tools, and platforms to improve operational efficiency and customer experience.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with other senior leaders, including marketing, sales, IT, and operations, to ensure alignment and integration of digital initiatives across the organization while fostering collaboration to enhance capabilities within core teams.
• Data Analytics: Utilize data analytics to drive decision-making, measure the effectiveness of digital initiatives, and identify opportunities for improvement. Monitor performance and facilitate the adoption of data-driven plans.
• Innovation: Shape Nestlé’s point of view on disruptive technologies, such as AI agents, digital twins, and autonomous workflows to keep the company at the forefront of digital advancements. Act as an incubator for new digital growth models and capabilities, ensuring their readiness for enterprise scale-up.
• Team Coordination: Coordinate with the digital strategy team to ensure all activities are aligned with overall business strategy and proactively manage the portfolio of digital initiatives, driving the transformation agenda to champion Nestlé USA initiatives and ensure end-to-end project execution.
• Long-Term Strategy Partner : Assist in architecting long-term digital strategies and ensure their translation into actionable plans. Support the development of division/functional level planning and coordinate processes to monitor performance against strategic objectives – infused with digital elements.
• Strategic Planning: The Digital Strategy Director will support translating the business strategy and identifying the key digital enablers / initiatives that will be required to support NUSA in winning in the marketplace. Help articulate a future-ready narrative for C-suite and board-level alignment.
• Business Benefit Analysis: The Digital Strategy Director will be asked to lead in identifying and gaining sign-off on project benefits from all digital projects, which will be required to have a direct P&L Benefit to NUSA. They will also support in tracking these benefits throughout the life of all initiatives, with the support of Finance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, Information Technology, or a related field
• 7+ years of experience in management consulting, corporate strategy, or digital transformation roles
• 5+ years of experience in a senior strategy role driving digital solutions cross functionally
• 5+ years of experience in digital marketing, e-commerce, and customer experience management.
• Experience implementing and driving at least one or more end to end digital strategies or roadmap that aligns multiple business and technical functions

It is our business imperative to remain a very inclusive workplace.

To our veterans and separated service members, you're at the forefront of our minds as we recruit top talent to join Nestlé. The skills you've gained while serving our country, such as flexibility, agility, and leadership, are much like the skills that will make you successful in this role. In addition, with our commitment to an inclusive work environment, we recognize the exceptional engagement and innovation displayed by individuals with disabilities. Nestlé seeks such skilled and qualified individuals to share our mission where you’ll join a cohort of others who have chosen to call Nestlé home.

The Nestlé Companies are equal employment opportunity employers. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Prior to the next step in the recruiting process, we welcome you to inform us confidentially if you may require any special accommodations in order to participate fully in our recruitment experience. Contact us at [e-mail] or please dial 711 and provide this number to the operator: 1-800-321-6467.

This position is not eligible for Visa Sponsorship.