Director Corporate Strategy

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Director Corporate Strategy

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  • Marketing
  • Global Support Office
  • The Netherlands
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  • Hybrid working
  • Wellbeing initiatives
  • Cross brand career options
  • Excellent analytical skills
  • A can-do mentality
  • Collaborative skills
  • International & cross cultural collaboration
  • Inclusive & caring culture
  • Shape a healthier tomorrow

How you can
make a difference

Director Of Corporate Strategy

Shape the future of one of the world’s leading food retail groups by driving enterprise-wide strategy and transformation. In this high-impact role, you’ll work directly with senior leadership to define long-term direction, unlock growth opportunities, and deliver strategic initiatives that truly make a difference.

 

About Ahold Delhaize

We’re Ahold Delhaize, one of the world’s largest food retail groups. Together with our seventeen strong local retail brands in Europe, the United States, and Indonesia, we share a passion for delivering great food, value and innovations. By bringing ideas to the table and acting on them, you help create a healthier tomorrow. Together, we make better choices accessible for millions of people every day.

 

Your new team

As Director Of Corporate Strategy, you will be joining our Strategy team at Group level. You will collaborate closely with Executive Committee members, regional and functional leaders, and cross-functional teams across our international organization.

You’ll be part of a dynamic, fast-paced, and collaborative environment where strategic thinking meets execution, and where your work directly influences the future direction of the company.

 

Key focus areas of your role

Drive Group strategy development and execution
You will lead the development of Ahold Delhaize’s 4–5 year Group strategy cycle and ensure alignment across brands, regions, and functions. You’ll connect strategic priorities with financial planning and drive execution through the annual strategic planning cycle.

Lead high-impact strategic initiatives
You will co-create functional strategies and lead enterprise-wide transformation programs that unlock growth and improve long-term profitability. You will ensure structured program management and guide teams toward successful delivery.

Shape strategic storytelling and insights
You will translate market, consumer, and competitor trends into actionable insights, helping the organization adapt and stay ahead. In collaboration with Investor Relations and Communications, you’ll help craft compelling strategic narratives for external stakeholders.

Enable leadership decision-making and capability building
You will design and facilitate senior leadership workshops, decision-making forums, and strategic discussions. In addition, you will mentor team members and contribute to building a strong strategy community across the organization.

 

What’s in it for you?

At Ahold Delhaize, we create a caring culture where you feel safe and supported. Being part of our family of brands comes with cross-cultural teamwork, international exposure, and opportunities to grow across functions and geographies.

We value your well-being, both at work and beyond, and encourage a flexible, hybrid way of working with meaningful in-office collaboration.

Plus:

  • A gross annual salary in the range 108.000 - 120.000 EUR 
  • Attractive bonuses
  • A first-rate pension plan
  • 20 vacation days with the option to buy an additional 12.5 days
  • Travel expenses or NS travel card
  • A laptop and smartphone
  • If needed, an electric lease car

 

The ingredients you bring

We believe this role comes to life when you bring the following experience:

  • 8+ years of experience in strategy consulting within retail or a similar industry
  • Proven track record in leading large-scale strategic programs with measurable business impact
  • Strong experience working with senior stakeholders and managing multiple workstreams
  • Advanced strategic thinking and ability to translate complex insights into clear recommendations
  • Experience facilitating senior leadership workshops and decision-making processes

Aside from this, a strong sense of ownership, curiosity, collaboration, and a structured, results-driven mindset will take you far.


Apply now! 

Are you keen to join the Corporate Strategy team? Even if you don’t tick all the boxes, but you still believe you have the personality and skills that make you a suitable candidate, we strongly encourage you to reach out to us. Apply now via the button on this page, or feel free to contact Damjan Bugarski, Talent Acquisition Specialist via damjan.bugarski@delhaize.rs if you have any questions.

At Ahold Delhaize and our local brands, we broadly define diversity as being inclusive of thoughts and skills, generational differences, LGBTQ+, gender, race and ethnicity, disabilities, nationalities and more, and we accept all people for who they are.

What
matters to us?

At Ahold Delhaize, we create the recipe for a better food future together. As one of the world’s largest food retail groups, we inspire people to eat and live better by shaping your recipe and owning your growth, building our recipe for tomorrow by making choices that support healthier people and planet, and bringing your flavor by being yourself in a caring and balanced environment. We care deeply for our customers, our people, and the world around us, and we want you to feel at home, heard, and valued. Here, you can develop your skills, contribute your ideas, and add your unique ingredients to make a meaningful difference together.

build our recipe for tomorrow 

shape a healthier future

shape your recipe

own your growth 

 Growth at Ahold Delhaize doesn’t follow a single recipe. Here, you shape your own path. With mentoring, international opportunities, and room to explore across brands and functions, your curiosity drives what’s next.

bring your flavor

be you and be balanced

Every team thrives on unique ingredients. Your personality, ideas, and perspective make the mix stronger. With flexibility, care, and support for life inside and outside work, balance becomes part of the recipe.

What our selection
process looks like?

1

Application

Share your enthusiasm for Ahold Delhaize or of our great local brands — explain why do you want to work for us and how you can add value. Your goal is to engage the hiring manager and to get them thinking about you as a potential new hire. Give it your all!

2

Job interview(s)

After you have been selected and depending on the role, you will be invited for one or more job interviews. The job interview, which is a two way conversation, will take place online (via Teams) or at the office. You will be informed by the recruiter. This is your moment to shine (but you always do ofcourse)

3

Online Assessment

When both parties would like to continue the conversation you will be invited for an online assessement, also known as pre-employment tests. The purpose of the test is helping hiring manager determine whether a candidate has the skills, work style, knowlegde of personality to succeed in a the role. 

4

Job Offer

We are thrilled to get you onboard and would like to offer you the job. In this phase we start the conversation about the details which comes with the job, such as compensation, benefits and other contract details. 

5

Welcome the Ahold Delhaize family

We do our utmost for you to feel at home, heard and valued and encourage you to be courageous, live wholehearted and keep growing. Therefore, we start the (pre)onboarding process as soon as you accepted the job offer. This process includes a technical and functional onboarding within Ahold Delhaize or our great familiy of local brands. 

Need help with application or orientation?

Hello, send me a message and I'll be happy to help you

Damjan Bugarski

Damjan Bugarski

Talent Acquisition Partner

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