LONG TERM STRATEGIC PLANNING AND EXECUTION:

• Develop and execute on Butternut’s Long Range Plan on a 5-year time horizon, ensuring alignment across commercial, operational and foundational pillars of the business in all markets.
• Oversee complex cross-functional global projects, from start to finish, ensuring efficient and effective execution against our Company Goals each quarter. For example, you’ll have ownership of launching Butternut into new markets planned for the year.
• Lead a highly analytical and research focussed team, to deliver best in class insights on how to grow total addressable market and build market share (be that via organic launches or M&A)
• Ensure decisions are made with clarity, at the right time, by the right people, to push Butternut forwards towards our North Star goal of feeding 1 million happy and healthy dogs.
• Head up the go-to team in the business for competitor and market insights, to drive brand, marketing and digital product strategies forwards on a global scale.

We’re looking for a Head of Strategy to join the team at Butternut for a 12 month maternity cover contract, reporting to the Chief Commercial Officer.
We’re looking for a strategic leader and expert decision maker, to identify and execute on the most exciting opportunities to grow our total addressable market and make Butternut & Marro Europe’s leading dog and cat food brand. Strategy at Butternut is both about thinking and doing - you’ll need to thrive on a combination of theory and execution day to day.
As Head of Strategy you’ll oversee the development of our mid to long term strategy, playing a key role in bringing exciting ideas and ‘big bet’ opportunities to life. Over the next couple of years Butternut and Marro will be highly focussed on continuing our international expansion and ensuring we have a long term strategy which delivers another decade of world class performance. This will include launching into new international markets, retail channels, product categories and more.
If you’re someone who is comfortable with a varied and dynamic workload, thriving on context switching and throwing yourself into new ideas to get them delivered, we want to hear from you.
In this role, you can expect to: