Sr Strategy Associate - Minneapolis, MN

General Mills' vision is to be the Undisputed Leader in Food. In service of this vision, the Corporate Strategy team supports the CEO and senior business leaders to drive the Accelerate Strategy and advance initiatives that are key to General Mills' future growth.

The Corporate Strategy team leads project-based work with a highly collaborative approach.The role has high external orientation and offers the opportunity for enterprise-level impact and exposure to different parts of the business through a variety of project experiences.Corporate Strategy partners across Strategy & Growth and the business segments to drive strategy execution and works alongside the M&A team on business development opportunities. The ideal candidate will be intellectually curious with a desire to learn, can bring structured thinking to answer ambiguous questions, and can turn data and analytics into key insights to influence senior stakeholders.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Work collaboratively with project teams to deliver against objectives, in partnership with Corporate Strategy colleagues, business teams, and external partners
• Leverage broad set of resources to bring objective, externally driven perspectives, options, or recommendations to business partners
• Independently lead specific workstreams within projects
• Evaluate data and build financial models and clearly articulate the "so-what" of that information
• Summarize project learnings and recommendations for review with leaders
• Synthesize quantitative and qualitative data from multiple sources
• Create materials for Senior Leadership Team and Board meetings
• Help manage external partner relationships
• Help develop the Corporate Strategy team and broader General Mills culture

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelors Degree
• 3+ years of relevant work experience in commercial-facing functions such as Finance, Brand Management, Sales, or relevant area
• Previous Project Management experience, i.e. ability to build and manage a work plan for a designated workstream
• Ability to work effectively with and garner trust from people at all levels in an organization, including senior leaders
• Experience working with cross-functional teams
• Intellectual curiosity and desire to learn
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills; ability to bring structured thinking to complex problems
• Experience bringing together multiple sources of data
• Comfort with navigating ambiguity and with being constantly challenged/stretched
• High trust and confidentiality with sensitive information
  
  

ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONS

• This role will be based out of our World Headquarters in Minneapolis, MN
• International relocation or international remote working arrangements (outside of the US) will not be considered
• Applicants for this position must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. General Mills will not sponsor applicants for this position for work visas

We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best - bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what's next.