Strategy & Health Category Excellence Director

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Job Description

As Strategy & Health Category Excellence Director, you are the architect of the business unit's future. This role is not just about planning, it is about making strategy real: anticipating health category trends, driving timely strategic discussions with senior leaders inside and outside the BU, and being a key driver of change in how Gnosis competes and wins.

You will:

• Shape Gnosis’ 3–10-year strategic vision, ensuring alignment with corporate strategy and goals and industries or market opportunities.

• Bridge strategy and execution with cross-functional leaders (R&D;, marketing, regulatory, operations and more), turning plans into measurable results.

• Define and implement a world-class health category excellence framework that improves customer experience and BU performance.

You join the extended leadership team and work closely with the Global Head of Strategy & Innovation.

1. BU Strategic Leadership and Execution Driver (~70%)

Vision & Roadmap:

• Develop and refine the short-term and long-term strategic plans, take the BU strategy through into the Lesaffre Group strategy ensuring they align with the company’s mission, values, and growth ambitions.

• In close collaboration with Corporate and BU Strategic Competitive Intelligence, Lesaffre Knowledge Center and Economic Intelligence, and Gnosis Product and Solutions teams and SOAs (Strategic Opportunity Areas) leaders, run deep-dive market, competitive, and industry analyses to ensure continuous differentiation as well as identify emerging opportunities, risks, and white spaces.

• Turn insights into actionable strategies, including BU portfolio optimization, and partner with M&A; and BD team to fuel growth.

Decision-Making Frameworks:

• Design models, tools, and KPIs to evaluate business decisions (e.g., prioritization matrices, scenario planning, ROI), monitor strategy performance (e.g., market share, revenue growth,



innovation success rates) and recommend course corrections.

• Develop mitigation strategies for external risks such as major regulatory changes, competitive threats.

Strategy in Motion – Execution

• Oversee the transformation initiatives assigned by the Leadership Team, delivered on time, within budget and with measurable impact, and allocate resources and budgets to strategic priorities.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (e.g. innovation, product and solutions, market insights, operational marketing, regulatory, scientific and medical affairs, operations, R&D;) to ensure seamless execution of initiatives at global level and appropriate allocation of resources and budgets effectively to support strategic priorities.

• Design the strategy office to monitor health category performance and drive data-based continuous improvement.

Stakeholder Engagement:

• Communicate the vision to BU and Group executive teams, securing buy-in and alignment, and advise the Global Head of Strategy & Innovation on critical decisions.

• Represent Gnosis in external forums (conferences, partnerships, investor meetings) to showcase thought leadership in health category excellence at BU strategic levels.

>> Expected Deliverables

- Aligned decks for the Quarterly Business Reviews and the bi-annual Leadership Team strategy review: progress against KPIs (revenues, gross margin, customer NPS, innovation success, competitive positions) and risk mitigation plans.
- 100% of strategic initiatives tracked,



with clear owners and timelines, and, with the communication teams, a health strategy report at least annually.

2. Health Category Excellence (20%)

- Build a uniform framework for the health categories: category plans, innovation cycles, market and segment development, B2B2C pricing approach, performance metrics, claims and risks assessment tools and processes.

- Keep the BU ahead of competition: work with product & solutions, Innovation SOA and strategic business intelligence to identify and address gaps in the BU portfolio. Recommend opportunity areas that meet customer needs and optimize performance at industry/market and Health Category overarching levels using sales data, customer feedback and market intelligence.

- Be the subject matter expert and main contact for health category excellence, supporting cross-functional teams.

>> Key deliverables:

- In the first 3 to 6 months, a macro market analysis, from nutrition through nutraceuticals to pharma, with segmentation, competition, customer typologies and regions.

- An updated BU roadmap (18-months and 3/5-years) with prioritization criteria, gap analysis and proposals for new investments or divestments.
- A Health Category Excellence Playbook with templates for category planning, pricing, claims and performance metrics

3- Culture and Operating Model (10%)

- Be a constructive collaborative culture ambassador inside and outside the BU.
- Foster a B2B2C approach by supporting cross-functional processes, governance and the operating model, for example a global claims process and ways of working for segmentation and health categories.
- Help in transformation and connect the regions and global stakeholders, and help establish the Bring-to-Market (B2M) / Go-To-Market (G2M)

>> Key deliverables: Operating Model Program Management timelines, budget and targeted outcome tracked and updated.

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