Manager Corporate Strategy

Have you ever enjoyed Arnold®, Brownberry® or Oroweat® bread? A Thomas'® English muffin or bagel? Or perhaps snacked on a Sara Lee®, Entenmann's® or Marinela® cake or donut? If the answer is yes, then you know Bimbo Bakeries USA!

More than 20,000 associates in bakeries, sales centers, offices and on sales routes work to ensure our consumers have the freshest products at every meal. In addition to competitive pay and benefits, we provide a safe and inclusive work environment that appreciates diversity, promotes development and allows our associates to be their authentic selves.

Come join the largest baking company in the world and our family of 20,000 associates nationwide!

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Salary Range: $105,100 - $147,100

Annual Bonus Eligibility

Comprehensive Benefits Package

Paid Time Off

401k & Company Match

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The Manager will be a key leader in the Corporate Strategy team that is charged with developing and implementing business strategies for the organization.


This person will lead and collaborate with various and multiple cross-functional teams to align the overall company strategy with customer and channel strategies, category and portfolio strategies, innovation plans, manufacturing and supply chain plans, efficiency and cost savings initiatives, and M&A vision. The Manager will provide best-in-class analytics to solve critical problems that improves BBUs competitive position and drive growth.


The Corporate Strategy team works on high impact, complex and confidential projects. The team works directly with senior management and interacts across all major corporate and operational functions. This position is highly visible and previous Managers have been promoted to other senior roles within the Strategy team and in other functions.


Key Job Responsibilities:

• Identifying critical business issues, risks, and growth opportunities; applying analytics, and structuring work plans to solve complex problems.
• Analyzing findings to develop insights and recommendations for senior management.
• Productively engaging and collaborating with individuals at all levels and across all functional and geographic areas; leading multiple cross-functional teams in a matrix organization.
• Managing assignments and resources over discrete time periods with minimal intervention.
• Leveraging technical, analytical, interpersonal and management skills across all areas to implement projects across the organization.
• Ensuring that the strategy of the organization is translated to actionable, quantifiable, and measurable market-level plans.
• Articulating company strategies to all relevant stakeholders.

Key Behavioral Competencies:

• Demonstrated problem solving ability, including strong conceptual and analytical skills and ability to turn findings into executable plans.
• Ability to generate innovative insights from analysis and develop and implement new methodologies and analyses to drive actionable results.
• Proven experience in leading cross-functional teams to results, experience in a matrix corporate environment, a plus.
• Comfortable working both independently and as part of a team.
• Ability to manage multiple projects, adjust priorities as needed, and meet deadlines.
• Ability to influence across the organization at multiple levels.
• Excellent written, oral, and formal communication skills.
• Advanced capability in use of spreadsheets, databases, data analysis and presentation tools.

Education and Work History:

• Bachelor's Degree plus significant experience in management consulting or strategic planning/corporate strategy or finance/investment banking or product management, ideally in the consumer products industry. MBA preferred.
• 5 years of overall work experience. Experience with consumer-packaged goods or large retailers is preferred.
• 2 years of experience in management consulting, strategic planning/corporate strategy, finance/investment banking, or product management.

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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.

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