Director, Strategy & Business Development (Consumer Packaged Goods)

Location: Maplewood, Minnesota, United States; onsite at the hirify.global Center at least four days per week. Travel may include up to 20% domestic and international travel. Relocation may be authorized. Candidates must already be legally authorized to work in the United States without employment visa sponsorship.

Expected compensation: $287,281–$351,122, including base pay and variable incentive pay if eligible.

Company

hirify.global is a global corporation developing material-science-based products and brands across consumer and industrial markets.

What you will do

• Shape the Consumer Business Group’s three-year strategic roadmap, including category, channel, and area strategies.
• Lead two to three transformation initiatives from problem framing and hypothesis-driven analysis through execution, adoption, and measured P&L impact.
• Evaluate acquisitions, licensing opportunities, divestitures, and strategic partnerships, and build investment business cases.
• Run strategic planning, annual operating planning, KPI definition, initiative tracking, and long-range planning with Finance.
• Prepare executive-ready materials and decision support for the leadership team, Group President, CEO, and Board.
• Lead cross-functional project teams and external advisors.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or higher.
• At least seven years of experience in consumer-packaged goods strategy, transformation, commercial, marketing, or strategy consulting for consumer and retail clients.
• At least five years of experience leading strategy or transformation projects end to end.
• At least five years of experience building P&L, business-case, and scenario models and working with consumer, retail, pricing, promotion, or syndicated data.
• At least five years of experience influencing and partnering across a matrixed organization.
• Legal authorization to work in the United States without employment visa sponsorship and availability for onsite work in Maplewood at least four days per week.

Nice to have

• MBA or equivalent graduate degree.
• Experience in top-tier strategy consulting, a leading CPG company, or a leading retailer.
• Experience with portfolio management, revenue growth management, ecommerce, retail media, route-to-market, brand strategy, or digital demand generation.
• Corporate development, transformation PMO, operating-model change, international experience, or multi-market experience.
• Executive communication and facilitation skills, and fluency with AI-enabled analysis and productivity tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Exposure to the Consumer Business Group and hirify.global enterprise leadership.
• Opportunity to work on high-priority initiatives in a $5 billion consumer business undergoing transformation.
• Medical, dental, vision, health savings and flexible spending accounts, disability and life insurance, paid absences, and retirement benefits may be available.
• Safety, environmental health, and continuous improvement are core workplace priorities.