S&PD LEAD – Czech Republic


We’ve built the world’s most successful tobacco company, with the world’s most popular and iconic brands. A few years ago, we’ve decided to build PMI’s future on smoke-free products - completely new, innovative product platforms. Our dream is to convert every adult smoker that would otherwise continue to smoke, to these smoke-free platforms. To help us achieve our dream, we need your help!
For our Strategy & Program Delivery (S&PD) team we are currently looking for a S&PD Lead.


WHAT WILL YOUR ROLE BE?
As a S&PD lead, you will work on supporting the strategy formulation, leading/supporting key strategic initiatives with multi-year impact as well as identifying and validate new business opportunities. In addition, you will support the development and execution of market strategy through cross-functional collaboration, performing insights collection, analysis and narration, long range planning and decision making – by also liaising with regional and global stakeholders.


WHAT WILL BE YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES?

• Contribute and later drive key strategic projects across the organization for our business leaders: strategic projects cover commercial, external affairs, new businesses, new market entry, new business model development, growth hacking and profitability improvements
  

• Drive end to end strategic project execution solving core business problems for functions/markets/regions/business category
  

• Lead analysis and workstreams intellectual agenda, structure, and drive complex problem solving as core part of the strategy project
  

• Drive the execution by mastering fact-based analyses, competitive intelligence, consumer insights, route to market insights and by identifying, facilitating recommendations to achieve optimal solutions
  

• Get buy in on recommendations and translate strategic choices into actions by communicating and pitching to a large set of key stakeholders, with synthesis and with a bias for action
  

• Orchestrate and facilitate PM CR projects/initiatives governance
  

• Support executive presentations preparation and ad-hoc analysis as requested by market/regional/global MT
  

CRITICAL CAPABILITIES?

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  Outstanding strategic thinking, problem solving and analytics capabilities, delivering complex strategy workstreams requiring senior stakeholders’ management in a fast-paced environment
• Ability and passion to drive change in large and complex organizations and ability to manage ambiguity, delivering under uncertainty
• Entrepreneurial, biased to action and roll-up-your-sleeves mindset with a high degree of assertiveness and independence, balanced with maintaining highly collaborative and agile ways of working, able to facilitate team meetings and drive tangible outcomes, motivating a diverse and international team of stakeholders

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR?

• Strategy development toolkit (industry analytics, consumer insight, strategy development, business plan development, financial modelling)
  

• University/College degree, preferably in economics
  

• 3+ years of professional experience in business & strategic planning and/or management consulting and/or commercial planning & data analytics
  

• Additional consumer goods or retail, consumer electronics, retail financial services, telecom, and fashion a plus
  

• Advanced written, communication and presentation skills
  

• Good influencing and stakeholder management skills, able to advise and constructively challenge senior team members
  

• Able to prioritize and work effectively, independently and with a team
  

• Curiosity, international experience, cultural openness, and command of English are essential with further language capabilities being a plus
  

WHAT WE OFFER:
We offer a competitive salary and excellent benefits package such as:

• Flexible working hours / home office possibility
  

• 25 vacation days and 4 sick days
  

• Summer/winter vacation contribution
  

• 11 000 points in Benefit Café, Multisport card, Meal tickets
  

• Life & accident insurance, Pension plan with contribution (3rd pillar)