Director, Corporate Strategy Supply Chain
About The Position
The Director, Corporate Strategy Supply Chain partners with the Cooperative’s senior leaders to shape enterprise and business-unit strategy, address critical strategic problems, and turn market insight into executable growth, performance, and transformation priorities. Reporting to the Chief Strategy Officer, the role applies an operationally grounded perspective across manufacturing, end-to-end supply chain and logistics, wholesale and retail distribution, consumer products, channel performance, and digital enablement to deliver measurable enterprise outcomes. Based at Land O’Lakes’ Arden Hills, Minnesota Corporate Headquarters, the position requires in-office presence Tuesday through Thursday each week. Periodic travel to business, manufacturing, distribution, customer, or industry locations is required based on business needs. The role works with senior leaders to connect enterprise ambition with operational reality, clarify complex choices, anticipate change, and build practical paths from insight to action. It has broad exposure across businesses and functions and the opportunity to influence decisions affecting growth, customer value, operational performance, and long-term resilience.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or a related field required.
- At least 10 years of experience in corporate strategy or related roles, or 5+ years of management consulting experience.
- Demonstrated people-leadership experience, including a track record of leading cross-functional teams and driving results in a dynamic environment.
- Deep understanding of industry dynamics, market trends, and competitive landscapes, with relevant experience in operationally intensive environments.
- Fluency across manufacturing operations, end-to-end supply chain, logistics, demand-supply integration, wholesale and retail distribution, consumer products, channel performance, digital enablement, and enterprise transformation.
- Strong financial and analytical capability, including business-case development, investment analysis, margin improvement, cost optimization, KPI development, and performance management.
- Exceptional strategic thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making ability, including simplifying ambiguity and translating complex data into practical, actionable recommendations.
- Excellent executive presence, communication, presentation, facilitation, stakeholder-management, and influence skills, including the ability to align stakeholders at all levels.
Nice To Haves
- MBA preferred.
- Experience in a matrixed organization preferred.
- Experience in agriculture, food, agribusiness, consumer products, manufacturing, distribution, retail, wholesale, or an adjacent sector strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Apply an end-to-end perspective across manufacturing, supply chain planning, logistics, demand-supply integration, wholesale and retail distribution, and consumer products to advance supply chain and operating strategy.
- Evaluate operating-model, network, sourcing, inventory, capacity, and business-model opportunities to improve service, resilience, cost, margin, and performance.
- Partner with Economic Research and business teams to assess industry trends, competitors, customers, commodity impacts, channel performance, and wholesale, retail, and consumer-market dynamics; translate insights into growth, partnership, investment, and business-development recommendations.
- Shape digital and business-transformation priorities using data, technology, automation, and modern tools; translate strategy into roadmaps, governance, change plans, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
- Establish KPIs and performance-management routines, monitor strategic initiatives, and recommend corrective action when needed.
- Lead scenario planning, stress testing, and strategic risk assessments to strengthen enterprise resilience and implementation readiness.
- Lead the development, implementation, and ongoing refinement of corporate and business-unit strategies.
- Advise senior leaders on enterprise priorities, growth platforms, portfolio choices, and long-range direction, translating ambiguous business questions into clear options and practical recommendations.
- Guide high-priority strategic initiatives from opportunity assessment and business-case development through executive alignment, governance, and implementation planning.
- Clarify strategic initiative objectives, decisions, ownership, milestones, and measures of success.
- Lead cross-functional teams through complex execution, facilitate strategic discussions, and align stakeholders across business units and functions.
- Develop executive- and board-ready materials and represent the organization with relevant external stakeholders.
Benefits
- Broad portfolio of benefits to support employees and their families.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
