As a member of the Corporate Strategy team, you will help shape BBU’s competitive strategy by supporting internal consulting and research projects. The Analyst, Corporate Strategy will work across Acelerada and the core BBU business, creating value by solving the most important strategic questions within the organization, including:

Leading research and analysis by leveraging a variety of primary and secondary data sources for identifying both organic and inorganic growth opportunities

Identifying, synthesizing, and communicating key trends across industries, segments, regions, and competitors

Supporting the Business Categories and Business Units by contributing to the development of strategies that drive above-market organic and inorganic growth

Ensuring that the business strategies which he/she/they support clearly articulate the business choices, are well-defined, describe resource requirements and arrive at actionable insights

Key Job Responsibilities:

• Assist in strategy development that enables the organization to frame and make critical decisions to profitably grow and defend the business. Help the organization to refine its “where to play” and “how to win” choices to drive growth, improve profitability, and sustain competitive advantage.
• Assist joint Corporate and Business Unit teams in solving complex business problems using a hands-on, hypothesis-driven approach:
• Develop project deliverables and executive presentation documents
• Lead primary and secondary research
• Frame discussion of findings and recommendations
• Help monitor progress deploying BBU’s strategic plans and identify major strategic changes over a prior year using metrics, roadmaps, dashboards & financials
• Partner with Finance colleagues to understand the financial impact of strategic decisions. Assist businesses to identify and develop plans to close performance gaps.
• Assist projects to:
• Develop and document an understanding of different product categories, segments, customers and retail channels.
• Develop timely, well-informed analysis of the competitive landscape (both existing and emerging).
• Analyze industry structure, go-to-market models, competitive dynamics, and market attractiveness and its likely evolution to inform strategy development and priority setting.
• Support national scale, cross-functional transformational projects
• Assist cross-functional, often virtual, teams – to maintain steady progress, coordinating workstreams
• Support the design and implementation of projects to execute on strategic objectives
• Perform other job-related duties as needed

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Position Requirements:

Key Behavioral Competencies:

• Analytics, Problem Solving, Work Structure and Management, and Communications
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple such projects concurrently on required timelines
• Proficient in creating value through the application of advanced data analytics
• Ability to structure and solve complex problems using a hypothesis-driven approach in close collaboration with other team members
• Strong oral and written communication skills – ability to synthesize and effectively communicate key messages
• Ability to apply strategy tools, frameworks, and processes
• People and Teamwork
• Collaboration, relationship building and influence skills
• High cross-cultural awareness
• A team player able to work with and through others with the ability to influence others and move toward a common vision or goal
• Being hands-on, staying connected to the ongoing strategy deployment and helping manage implementation when necessary
• Able to work effectively at all levels in an organization
• Intense business curiosity
• Commitment to excellence, ensuring objectives are met and delivered on-time

Education and Work History:

• 1 – 3 years of cumulative business experience in an analytical role in finance, sales, supply chain or M&A/Venture.
• Track record of dealing with strategic business issues including economics, industry structure, operations strategy, and finance
• Travel

Willingness to travel occasionally based on business demand. Travel is typically infrequent.

• Education

Bachelor’s degree required (BBA, Finance, Economics, Engineering, Mathematics, or other Technology/Business related fields)

The physical and mental demands described in each job posting are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of each job. Reasonable accommodations may be requested to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of each job.

Bimbo Bakeries USA is an equal opportunity employer with a policy that provides equal employment opportunity for applicants and employees regardless of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran status, any other classification protected by law.