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Bimbo Bakeries USA

Director Corporate Strategy

Irving, TX · On-site

$146.90K - $205.70K/yr

More than 20,000 associates in bakeries, sales centers, offices and on sales routes work to ensure ... The Director of Corporate Strategy is responsible for leading long-term strategic planning for ...

Grupo Bimbo

Director Corporate Strategy

Irving, TX · On-site

$146.90K - $205.70K/yr

More than 20,000 associates in bakeries, sales centers, offices and on sales routes work to ensure ... The Director of Corporate Strategy is responsible for leading long-term strategic planning for ...

Spgi

Associate Director, Corporate Strategy

New York, NY

$120.46K - $207.94K/yr

Associate Director, S&P Global Corporate Strategy The Team: You are part of the larger Enterprise Strategy & Planning Team you will report into the Corporate Strategy team. Specifically, this role ...

Bimbo Bakeries USA

Director Corporate Strategy

Irving, TX

$146.90K - $205.70K/yr

More than 20,000 associates in bakeries, sales centers, offices and on sales routes work to ensure ... The Director of Corporate Strategy is responsible for leading long‑term strategic planning for ...

Focus Financial Partners

$90K - $120K/yr

Position Summary The Associate will be a member of Focus' core strategy team which oversees all corporate development / M&A activities across Focus, with immediate responsibilities in M&A execution.

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Director Corporate Strategy

Director Corporate Strategy

Bimbo Bakeries USA

Irving, TX • On-site

$146.90K - $205.70K/yr

Full-time

Retirement

Posted 29 days ago

Bimbo Bakeries USA rating

6.0

Company rating: 6.0 out of 10

Based on 122 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz

13th of 41 rated bakeries

Job description

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.
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Come join the largest baking company in the world and our family of 20,000 associates nationwide!
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Salary Range: $146,900 - $205,700
Comprehensive Benefits Package
Annual Bonus Eligibility
401k & Company Match
Position Summary:
The Director of Corporate Strategy is responsible for leading long-term strategic planning for Bimbo Bakeries USA, ensuring alignment and integration with global enterprise strategy. This role drives portfolio strategy across product categories and brands, leads high-impact internal consulting projects focused on commercial, brand, and channel strategy, and provides strategic insight to the senior leadership team to support critical decision making.
The Director will lead and develop a high-performing team of strategy professionals and serve as a trusted thought partner to executive leadership, translating market trends, competitive intelligence, and consumer insights into actionable growth strategies.
Key Job Responsibilities:
Long Term Strategic Planning & Global Integration
  • Lead the development of the 3-5 year strategic plan for the U.S. business, aligning growth priorities, investment decisions, and performance metrics with global corporate strategy. Acts as system owner for the Strategic Planning process, ensuring disciplined governance, decision-quality, and enterprise alignment.
  • Partner closely with global strategy, regional leadership, and functional teams to ensure strategic coherence and alignment across geographies and business units.
  • Support annual operating plan and long range planning processes, including strategic narratives, scenario planning, and executive presentations.

Portfolio Strategy Development
  • Define and evolve portfolio strategy across product categories and brands, clarifying brand roles, category participation, and growth priorities.
  • Evaluate portfolio optimization opportunities including innovation prioritization, brand expansion, rationalization, M&A, partnerships, and divestitures in partnership with responsible functions. This role informs portfolio direction and strategic choice but does not own M&A execution, diligence, or integration activities.
  • Develop fact based frameworks to assess portfolio performance and inform capital allocation decisions.

Internal Consulting & Commercial Strategy
  • Lead internal consulting engagements addressing high priority strategic questions with a focus on commercial strategy, brand strategy, and channel strategy. Owns a prioritized portfolio of high-impact, long-horizon strategy initiatives focused on enterprise value creation
  • Partner with Sales, Marketing, Customers Team, Revenue Growth Management, and Finance to shape go to market models and channel expansion initiatives.
  • Deliver clear, actionable recommendations supported by robust analysis, financial modeling, and consumer insights.

Trend Assessment & Opportunity Identification
  • Lead ongoing trend assessment across consumer behavior, health and wellness, sustainability, technology, and regulatory landscapes. Maintains an outside-in, future-ready perspective on structural shifts such as consumption patterns, labor dynamics, AI, geopolitics, and channel evolution, translating implications into strategic choices.
  • Identify, size, and prioritize new growth opportunities, including entry into new markets, categories, business models, or adjacencies.
  • Translate insights into business cases, pilots, and strategic roadmaps.

Competitive Intelligence
  • Establish and maintain a comprehensive competitive intelligence capability, tracking competitor strategies, performance, innovation pipelines, and go to market approaches. Oversees monthly and quarterly Market Intelligence outputs synthesizing competitor actions, consumer trends, retailer dynamics, and macro forces to inform executive decision-making.
  • Synthesize competitive insights into implications for portfolio strategy, brand positioning, commercial execution and enterprise strategy.

Executive Advisory & Decision Support
  • Act as a trusted advisor to the senior leadership team, providing strategic perspectives to support enterprise level and business unit decision making.
  • Prepare and present strategic analyses, options, and recommendations to executive leadership and key governance forums.
  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of 5-7 strategy associates, ranging from analyst to senior manager level.

People Leadership
  • Establish clear objectives, development plans, and performance expectations, fostering a high performance, collaborative team culture.
  • Build organizational strategic capability through mentorship, tools, and best practices.

Key Behavioral Competencies:
  • Transformation & Change Leadership: Demonstrates the ability to translate enterprise transformation ambitions into clear strategic initiatives that drive material business impact across brands, categories, and channels.
  • Strategic Program Framing & Prioritization: Effectively frames complex and ambiguous strategic questions into discrete initiatives; evaluates trade-offs and prioritizes work based on value creation, feasibility, resource constraints, and strategic fit.
  • Strategic & Commercial Acumen: Demonstrates strong understanding of consumer packaged goods economics, including brand equity, category dynamics, pricing, trade-offs, and margin drivers; consistently connects strategy to commercial impact.
  • Structured Problem Solving & Planning Discipline: Applies rigorous, hypothesis-driven thinking to ambiguous problems; develops clear workplans, milestones, and success metrics to guide execution.
  • Project Intake & Demand Management: Brings discipline to project intake by clarifying problem statements, objectives, scope, and decision rights; ensures alignment with enterprise priorities before work is launched.
  • Influence & Alignment in Matrixed Environments: Builds alignment across Marketing, Sales, Finance, R&D, Supply Chain, and Global teams; drives momentum without direct authority through credibility and clarity.
  • Executive Communication & Decision Enablement: Synthesizes complex analyses into concise, decision-ready insights; clearly articulates options, implications, risks, and recommended paths forward. Tailors messages to different audiences and decision contexts.
  • Results Orientation & Bias to Action: Balances long-term strategic thinking with near-term execution; ensures strategies translate into actionable roadmaps with accountable owners and measurable outcomes.
  • Consumer & Customer Centricity: Anchors strategic thinking in deep understanding of consumer needs, shopper behavior, and customer economics across channels.

Leadership Competencies:
  • Situational Adaptability - Adapts approach and attitude in real time, according to the changing demands of different solutions.
  • Drives Engagement - Creates a climate where people are motivated to do their est to help the organization achieve its objectives.
  • Ensures Accountability - Holds self and others accountable to meet commitments.
  • Manages Complexity - Makes sense of complex, high quantity, and sometimes contradictory information to effectively solve problems.

Education and Work History:
  • MBA or other relevant Master's degree required
  • 10+ Years of Experience 10+ years of experience in corporate strategy, management consulting, or strategic planning, preferably within consumer packaged goods or food & beverage.
  • Demonstrated experience leading teams and influencing senior executives in a matrixed organization.
  • The physical and mental demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be requested to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

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.
It is unlawful in Massachusetts to require or administer a lie detector test as a condition of employment or continued employment. An employer who violates this law shall be subject to criminal penalties and civil liability.

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From the breakfast table to lunch boxes to family barbecues, Bimbo Bakeries USA's fresh, high-quality products have delighted Americans for generations. As the largest commercial baking company in the U.S., we are proud to deliver our bread, bagels, buns, English muffins and sweet baked goods to every town, city and community in the United States. Bimbo Bakeries USA is proud part of Grupo Bimbo, the world’s largest baking company with operations in 34 countries.

Industry

Food and drink manufacturing

Company size

10,000+ Employees

Headquarters location

Horsham, PA, US

Year founded

1945

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