Group Strategy Manager

Published on July 1, 2024

Are you passionate about driving profitable growth and value creation? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you!

As Group Strategy Manager at Saferoad, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of our organization. Your strategic insights and leadership will be instrumental in guiding our company towards sustained success and innovation in the road safety industry.

Key tasks include
• Management of strategy projects with focus on adjacent growth markets
• Coordination of the annual strategy process (strategic analysis, strategic and financial 3-year plan, execution plan) for Business Areas without dedicated strategy team
• Selective support of growth and performance programs with major impact on Group value creation
• Selective support of M&A and post-merger integration projects

The role reports directly to the SVP Strategy and M&A of the Saferoad Group.

Moreover, the Group Strategy Manager closely collaborates with the CFO and the further Group finance team, as well as the heads and further key personnel of the Business Areas.

Positioning and scope of responsibilities of the role can be adapted to your qualifications to enable tailored development perspectives.

You can freely choose your base office at any of our administrative sites in Germany or Poland or at home. The role can require travel to selected sites across the whole Saferoad Group and to external companies.

Your profile

Saferoad is looking for a high performing and results oriented individual with a strong track record in strategy work.

Essential qualifications are:
• At least 1-2 years of management consulting experience with relevant project focus (e.g. growth strategy development, commercial due diligences, strategy implementation etc.) or equivalent experience
• Very good academic record with at least 4-year bachelor or master degree or equivalent education
• Business fluent English

Further beneficial qualifications include:
• Experience in the road infrastructure industry and/or related value chain players (e.g. construction companies, public and private road operators etc.)
• Experience with infrastructure project business models
• Experience in steel processing industries
• Strategy project management skills with effective end-to-end planning and deliverable focus independent of initially available information
• Communication, collaboration, and stakeholder management skills across various functions and organizational levels
• Market analysis skills (e.g. sizing, customer and competitor analysis etc.)
• Financial modelling skills (e.g. business plans, initiative impact estimates etc.)
• Experience in setting up and running strategy implementation programs
• Ability to create documents and hold presentations suitable for top management and shareholder audiences
• Language skills in either Norwegian, German, Polish, Swedish

Sounds interesting? Send your CV to: karriere@saferoad-rrs.de.