Strategy & Transformation Sr. Analyst- Violife

 

About Flora Food Group

We offer consumers a compelling choice in four growing categories: butters and spreads, creams, liquids and cheeses. We hold leadership positions in many of the 100 countries we operate in, with iconic brands including Flora, Becel+ProActiv, Blue Band, Country Crock, I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter, Rama, and Violife, together with our local brands and Professional business.  

Global branded food champion Flora Food Group, offers the next generation of delicious, natural, nutritious food. Our products are more affordable and more sustainable than their dairy equivalents.  

 

Role: Senior Strategy & Transformation Analyst, Violife

Location: Hybrid (2 days in office per week), office in Hackensack, NJ (~30min commute from much of Manhattan)

 

About the Company & Role

We are on a mission to transform the future of food and are looking for a rock-star Senior Strategy & Transformation Analyst for the Global Violife business to help us blaze this trail.

Flora Food Group, formerly Upfield, is the world's leading independently owned plant-based foods company and has been a KKR portfolio company since 2018 (spun off from Unilever). In 2020 Flora Food Group acquired Violife, which has grown to become the #1 Plant-Based Cheese brand globally and the only true global player with a top two share position across most markets in North America and Europe. The Plant-Based Cheese category is viewed by many as the last-frontier of plant-based food and Violife is working to bring an inflection point to the category similar to what has happened in many other plant-based categories.

This role will report directly to the Global Head of Strategy & Transformation for Violife and play a pivotal role in shaping the future of the business, with significant exposure to the Global President & Chief Growth Office (CGO) for Violife. Main responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Drive priority strategy & transformation projects (e.g., channel strategy, portfolio rationalization, etc.), often including leading global, cross-functional teams.
• Thought partnership and support running the office of the Global Violife President & CGO, including preparing for key senior leadership and board of directors meetings.
• Manage recurring C-Suite communication on business performance in partnership with local market leads.
• Support recurring strategic planning initiatives, including close partnership with markets to develop both long term and annual plans.
• Synthesize business data & insights needs across markets to develop a global learning plan and support execution of priority business data & insights projects (e.g., dynamic performance reporting dashboard).
• Ad hoc analysis to support priority C-Suite requests often including P&L and / or syndicated data analysis (e.g., attractiveness of adjacent categories, competitive benchmarking, etc.)

 

About You

We’re looking for a globally minded, critical thinker, and self-starter who is passionate about plant-based food and what makes consumers tick. The global Violife team is a lean, dynamic, and entrepreneurial team within the larger Flora Food Group organization and has a big ambition to step change the Plant-Based Cheese category and bring the Violife brand to billion-dollar status by 2030. Comfort with ambiguity in a fast paced, global, and matrixed environment will be critical to thriving in this role. The Senior Strategy & Transformation Analyst will be expected to be a Swiss army knife providing everything from cross-functional project management to analytical firepower, working with a wide range of stakeholders throughout the Flora Food Group organization.   

 

Skills, Behaviors, and Minimum Requirements:

• Trailblazer with “Always Day 1” mindset. Driven, entrepreneurial, and analytical.
• At least 2-3 years of experience in the CPG industry, management consulting, and / or investment banking.
• Strong strategic and analytical skillset with fluency in Excel and PowerPoint and ability to derive insight from data.
• Disciplined project management and organizational skills
• Experience working across geographies. Role includes some travel to and close partnership with markets across North America and Europe.
• Bachelor’s Degree required.
• Experience with Nielsen, Euromonitor, and other syndicated / market research resources a plus.
• Passionate about the food industry and the plant-based food movement.

 

 

 

 

 

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