Manager Corporate Strategy

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Manager Corporate Strategy

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  • Hybrid working
  • Wellbeing initiatives
  • Cross brand career options
  • Excellent analytical skills
  • International & cross cultural collaboration
  • Inclusive & caring culture
  • Shape a healthier tomorrow

How you can
make a difference

 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. 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 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, how to 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. 

 

Key focus areas of your role:

Strategy Development and Execution 

  • Driving content and/or coordinating the execution of cross-functional strategic projects that span brands, markets, and functions.  

  • Translating high-level strategic ambitions into actionable workstreams to support the implementation of our Group-wide strategy.  

  • Tracking initiatives, milestones and points of attention across functions and countries.  

  • Leading the refresh of the strategy section of the Annual Report.  

 

Trends & Market Insights 

  • Identifying external consumer, industry, and economic trends.  

  • Monitoring competitor and peer moves, commercial developments, and disruptive business models.  

  • Synthesizing insights into implications for Ahold Delhaize’s Group strategy.  

 

Innovation & Ecosystem Engagement 

  • Identifying opportunities for ecosystem engagement (e.g., conferences, partnerships).  

  • Supporting internal capability-building around strategy, innovation and transformation.  

  • Liaising with external stakeholders (e.g., government officials, NGOs, partners) on behalf of leadership.  

 

Narrative Building and Stakeholder Engagement 

  • Co-developing positioning frameworks and strategic narratives for internal and external audiences.  

  • Facilitating workshops and feedback sessions to refine and validate messaging.  

  • Preparing briefing materials and talking points for executive engagements.  

  • Synthesizing complex information into concise, strategic summaries and present them to senior audiences.  

 

Cross-Functional Collaboration 

  • Acting as a connector across departments to ensure strategic coherence and integrating views from multiple business units.  

  • Representing the Corporate Strategy team in cross-functional forums and working groups.  

 

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 experience, and room to explore across brands and functions. Your curiosity drives what’s next!

We value your well-being, both at work and beyond. That’s why we offer benefits like flexible work options, well-being initiatives, sabbatical leave, and family care. This way, you can add something meaningful to our recipe. We enjoy connecting in our office and encourage you to spend at least three days a week here, based on a forty-hour work week.

 

Plus: 
•    A gross annual salary in the range of 80.000 - 115.000
•    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 

 

The ingredients you bring 
Everyone brings their unique flavor. We believe this role comes to life when you bring the following:

  • 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.  

 

Join our recipe. Apply now!
Are you keen to join the Corporate Strategy team? Even if you don’t tick all the boxes, we encourage you to apply. For any questions, please contact Andrej Bjelogrlić at andrej.bjelogrlic2@delhaize.rs. 

Applications are open until 28th of August. As selection interviews will begin immediately, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.


At Ahold Delhaize, we are open for everyone. We respect and embrace people from all backgrounds, identities, and experiences—including all genders, LGBTQ+ communities, abilities, nationalities, generations, and cultures. We are committed to creating a caring workplace where everyone feels heard, valued, and able to thrive.

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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. 

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Damjan Bugarski

Damjan Bugarski

Talent Acquisition Partner

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