Group Strategy Manager

The Company

The world’s leading supplier of mineral-based specialty solutions for industry with 14,000 employees, operations in more than 40 countries, and €4.3 billion in revenue in 2022.
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The Position

Group Strategy Manager H/F

Job Summary
- JOB SUMMARY/PURPOSE
- As a member of the _Group Strategy _team, the Group Strategy Manager is a key stakeholder in Imerys Group (and its Business Areas) strategy definition and implementation.
- He / She will support Imerys’ top management in their decision-making, thanks to rigorous strategic and financial analyses.
- He / She will be leading various strategic projects or initiatives, and be responsible for selected workstreams, supported by Strategy Analysts and the team’s Vice-President, whom he / she reports to.

JOB SCOPE/DIMENSIONS
- Scope of action: Imerys Group, all Business Areas & geographies

Key business partners:
- Internal: The Group Strategy Manager will have to work with all Imerys Group entities - at both Corporate and Business Area levels - and with different functions (M&A, sales, marketing, finance, operations, customer excellence, science and technology ). Significant exposure to senior management (CEO, Chief Strategy Officer, Executive Committee members)-
- External : The Group Strategy Manager will have to work with several external advisors (including Strategy consulting firms)- KEY TASKS AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- The Group Strategy Manager is in charge of developing the key steps of strategic reflection, serving the Group and its businesses:
Key strategic initiatives: identifying potential strategic opportunity or challenge, frame the approach, set up the project team and lead the project (e.g.; 5-year plan, strategic due diligence in M&A projects, decarbonation roadmap, initiatives in open innovation or circular economy, support to Capital Market Day, identification of implications of market trends on Imerys strategy, etc.)-
- Market definition, assessment and competitive dynamics: define the relevant segmentation axes to analyse a market. Estimate market / segments size, identify and position Imerys competitors, estimate their market shares and dynamics, estimate and explain markets growth rates (historical / forecasted evolution)-
- Economics: understand the industry economic rules and logic through economic / financial analyses (in particular revenue and cost structures, profit pool)-
- Strategic options: Identify growth areas for Imerys, formalize strategic investment rationale, action plan and key financial impactsThe Group Strategy Manager summarizes the analyses in a written and synthetic format, and discusses conclusions with other members of the Strategy team, or top managers at Group or Business Area level.

The Group Strategy Manager leads these analyses in various contexts, and works in team with other functions at Group or Business Area level:
- Group-level strategic reviews, business Strategy with support of relevant Business Areas-
- M&A transactions (acquisitions or divestments), in partnership with the Group M&A team, where he/she brings a strategic perspective in the rationale for the acquisition - equity story - and support in the execution (e.g. providing input for a business plan, synergies)-
- Ad-hoc requests from Imerys Senior Management (notably the CEO and the Chief Strategy and M&A Officer)The Group Strategy Manager is responsible for full projects and workstream, involving multiple stakeholders (internally and externally), from project design to data collection (from reports, database, Imerys sources, interviews with internal/external experts), interpretation and challenge, synthesis of the recommendation and presentation to Senior Management
- JOB SPECIFICATIONS
- Education and Experience requirements

**Education**:
- Top level Business or Engineering graduate degreePrevious professional experience:
- 4-5 total work experience, ideally in corporate strategy in a leading consulting firm or as part of an in-house strategy teamTechnical skills:
- Strong analytical skills, attention to details-
- Synthetic mind-
- Knowledge of Strategic analysis concepts and methodologies-
- Skills in Corporate Finance-
- In-depth knowledge of Google suite or Microsoft OfficeLanguages:
- Fluent English, fluency in other languages is a strong plusKnowledge, skills, abilities and other characteristics- Business acumen and curiosity-
- Quantitative analysis, supported by a factual, rigorous and logical mind-
- Critical mind, to challenge received wisdoms-
- Ability to handle several projects in parallel-
- Synthetic mind, to summarize simply complex problems-
- Leadership, to be autonomous and drive selected workstreams of strategic initiatives (supported by the team Vice-President)-
- Team spirit; collaborates well with others to achieve shared goals-
- Interpersonal communication, especially to be able to interact with both Group top executives and oper