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

📌 Strategy & Health Category Excellence Director (Monza)
🏢 Lesaffre
📍 Monza