Manager Strategy

Are you an experienced consultant in corporate strategy? Do you have experience driving corporate strategy at the highest levels within an organization? We invite you to make your mark on one of the largest and most diverse retailers in the world.

About Ahold Delhaize

We’re Ahold Delhaize, one of the world’s largest food retail groups and a leader in both supermarkets and e-commerce. Together with our 17 strong local retail brands in the United States, Europe and Indonesia, we make a meaningful difference in the lives of our brands’ customers, our people and the world around us. We offer a highly dynamic, international work environment in which our associates thrive.

Your new work environment

As Manager Corporate Strategy, you will co-create and operationalize our corporate strategy across Europe and the United States. You will learn, develop, and leverage fundamental skills around how to develop effective strategy, drive omnichannel growth, and be a thought partner to our senior leaders to shape the future direction of our business. You will also help shape Ahold Delhaize’s Group strategy, assisting in the development, execution, and communication of our corporate strategy to our management and supervisory boards, our executive committee, as well as across all of our functions, regions, and brands. As part of your role, you help define the strategic direction of Ahold Delhaize.

• Identify and translate external trends and commercial developments into strategic opportunities.
• Advise our executive committee and supervisory board on strategic questions, e.g. regarding consumer and industry shifts.
• Plan and manage activities within Ahold Delhaize’s strategic implementation cycle to drive strategy execution.

In this strategic management role, you will play a key role in ensuring Ahold Delhaize is at the forefront of key consumer and industry shifts. You will keep track of consumer, industry, and economic trends and commercial developments that could impact our business. You will drive our planning cycle, reviewing our strategy across our functions, regions, and brands. You will also develop strategies and new business opportunities that will drive growth in this increasingly fast-moving world. Lastly, you will link these strategic initiatives to our financial plan and ensure integration across all of our brands, regions, and functions.

In this role, you report to the SVP Strategy and M&A, working together with senior stakeholders such as Executive Committee members, functional, regional, and brand senior executives and key associates. You'll need to navigate through a complex organization that comprises multiple seniority levels, countries, languages, and cultures. For this reason, you need advanced stakeholder management skills and the ability to communicate at an executive level.

You will be given the freedom and responsibility to take ownership of your work and broaden your horizons by working together with knowledgeable colleagues from different countries who have an abundance of expertise in many areas. We will continuously support you and help you build on your talents and skills for the future.

Key responsibilities of your role

• Strategy Development and Execution
  • Drive content and/or coordinate the execution of cross-functional strategic projects that span brands, markets, and functions.
  • Translate high-level strategic ambitions into actionable workstreams to support the implementation of our Group-wide strategy.
  • Track initiatives, milestones, and points of attention across functions and countries.
  • Lead the refresh of the strategy section of the Annual Report.
• Trends & Market Insights
  • Identify external consumer, industry, and economic trends.
  • Monitor competitor and peer moves, commercial developments, and disruptive business models.
  • Synthesize insights into implications for Ahold Delhaize’s Group strategy.
• Innovation & Ecosystem Engagement
  • Identify opportunities for ecosystem engagement (e.g., conferences, partnerships).
  • Support internal capability-building around strategy, innovation, and transformation.
  • Liaise with external stakeholders (e.g., government officials, NGOs, partners) on behalf of leadership.
• Narrative Building and Stakeholder Engagement
  • Co-develop positioning frameworks and strategic narratives for internal and external audiences.
  • Facilitate workshops and feedback sessions to refine and validate messaging.
  • Prepare briefing materials and talking points for executive engagements.
  • Synthesize complex information into concise, strategic summaries and present them to senior audiences.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration
  • Act as a connector across departments to ensure strategic coherence and integrate views from multiple business units.
  • Represent the Corporate Strategy team in cross-functional forums and working groups.

What’s in it for you?

Aside from what we ask of you in this role, we also have a great deal to offer you: plenty of growth opportunities and various cross-brand career options; flexible working hours; hybrid working – we encourage you to spend at least 3 days a week, on average, at the office (based on a 40-hour work week); and the chance to drive meaningful change on a global scale. You can look forward to a good work-life balance, and the chance to work in an inclusive environment that wholeheartedly encourages growth and welcomes you just the way you are.

Plus:

• A gross annual salary between €75.000 & €110.000,- (including holiday allowance), based on experience
• Attractive bonuses
• A first-rate pension plan
• 20 vacation days and the option to buy an additional 12,5 days from your personal ‘flex budget’
• Travel expenses or an NS travel card
• A laptop and smartphone

What do you bring?

• Excellent analytical skills
• The ability to connect
• Business awareness

We think you’ll be best geared for success if you meet the following requirements:

• A Master’s degree in Economics or Business Administration or equivalent.
• At least 5 years of work experience in a consulting firm or in the retail industry across corporate strategy, strategy consulting, finance and/or business development.
• The ability to successfully create and communicate (written and verbal) complex strategic insights and the company strategy at an executive level.
• Logical structuring skills, problem decomposition and solutioning.
• A proactive and entrepreneurial attitude for taking on new roles and responsibilities.
• Experience managing projects, key stakeholders and workstreams.
• Experience developing and executing senior leadership meetings and workshops.
• The ability to develop quantitative analysis in Excel.
• Experience in performing external research and driving external and internal stakeholder interviews.

Why Ahold Delhaize?

• Huge Impact
• Work with fun and smart colleagues
• (Inter)national growth opportunities

What do we offer?

• To be courageous
• To live wholeheartedly
• To keep growing

Be courageous

"I realized how much impact you can truly have as an individual, working for such a huge international company.”
Colleague

Live wholeheartedly

“The support this company has always offered means the world to me."
Colleague

Keep growing

“I feel the freedom to show initiative, propose changes and try new things. Having that freedom gave me wings to fly.”
Colleague

If you have any questions, feel free to contact Karen de Geus via karen.de.geus@aholddelhaize.com.