Senior Strategy Manager

About Fonterra

Fonterra Te Mātāpuna fosters an environment where individuals are encouraged to be authentic and develop their careers. As a global dairy cooperative owned by New Zealand farmers, it values care, collaboration, and contribution, creating pathways for positive impact and growth.

Role Overview

The Group Strategy team serves as strategic advisers to senior leadership, focusing on crucial questions influencing the cooperative’s future. This role entails tackling intricate problems, defining issues, uniting diverse teams, and guiding decisions that senior leaders can implement. Additionally, coaching and mentoring analysts to cultivate future leaders is a key responsibility.

Benefits and Opportunities

This position offers exposure to complex strategic challenges within New Zealand's unique cooperative environment, close collaboration with senior decision-makers, and prospects for advancement into senior operational or functional leadership roles. The role’s level is flexible, tailored to the successful candidate’s experience.

Candidate Profile

• Proven experience in strategy roles within consulting or corporate strategy sectors.
• Ability to foster collaboration and gain consensus across various stakeholders.
• Valuable if bringing experience outside the dairy industry and familiarity with cooperative structures.
• Strong structured problem-solving skills paired with rigorous analysis and sound commercial acumen.
• Comfort handling ambiguity and simplifying complex matters.
• Demonstrated leadership in driving cross-functional programs to successful outcomes.
• Established credibility and influence at executive and Board levels.
• Exhibits a proactive approach, humility, growth mindset, and genuine interest in cooperative values.

Recruitment Process

Applicants will undergo case exercises designed to evaluate problem-solving approaches and strategic thinking.

Company Values

Fonterra champions values such as Good Together, Better Every Day, and Every Drop Counts, promoting inclusiveness regardless of background or identity and emphasizing exceptional results for stakeholders.

Employee Well-being and Support

• Equitable and fair remuneration
• Health and wellness initiatives, including medical and mental health support
• Opportunities for professional growth and development
• Support for career progression
• Work-life balance facilitated through flexible and hybrid working arrangements when feasible
• Employee recognition programs
• Encouragement of community involvement and cultural engagement

Inclusion Commitment

Fonterra is dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workforce, valuing varied backgrounds such as ethnicity, gender, identity, orientation, age, ability, neurodiversity, culture, and religion. They encourage applicants even if not all requirements are met and provide accommodations to ensure equitable participation during the hiring process.

Application Deadline

Applications must be submitted by midnight on October 14.