DFI Retail Group

Is this your next challenge in corporate strategy?

The Group Strategy Program Manager acts as the central operating engine for the Group’s corporate strategy agenda, driving execution discipline, visibility, and consistency across all transactions. This role is designed to increase velocity and free up capacity by owning coordination, governance, and process infrastructure across the full transaction lifecycle.

Working closely with the Corporate Strategy Leadership Team, the role serves as a force multiplier to the leadership team—ensuring projects progress efficiently, stakeholders remain aligned, and execution risks are proactively managed.

The challenge is to:

• Act as tower control for all corporate strategy projects, maintaining the master transaction plan, integrated workstream timelines, dependencies, and critical path across deal stages
• Own the pipeline tracker, ensuring status, milestones, decisions, and next steps are captured accurately and reported regularly
• Serve as the primary point of contact and liaison for internal and external parties (e.g., business leaders, Finance, Legal, Tax, advisors), ensuring clear roles, handoffs, and timely responses
• Drive governance and operating rhythm for different initiatives, including meeting cadences, agendas, action logs, decision logs, and escalation pathways
• Coordinate preparation of steering updates and executive-ready materials for the Group Chief Strategy Officer and senior stakeholders (progress, risks/issues, recommendations)
• Ensure alignment on communications, including stakeholder mapping, communication plans, and consistent messaging on project progress and timelines
• Support diligence and projects execution by coordinating information requests, workplan inputs, data room/task coordination, and follow-ups across teams
• Track key risks, issues, and interdependencies; proactively surface blockers and coordinate resolution to maintain momentum and delivery quality
• Support post-deal planning activities (where applicable) by coordinating integration planning workstreams, synergy tracking, and reporting
• Maintain high-quality documentation and deliverables across the transaction lifecycle, including templates, playbooks, and project artifacts for knowledge transfer

Do you have experience in program management in corporate strategy?

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Finance, Economics, or a related discipline
• Relevant experience in corporate strategy, strategy execution/PMO, management consulting, business transformation, or enterprise program management
• Experience supporting senior leadership on cross-functional, enterprise-wide priorities and operating rhythms
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence across functions and levels in a matrixed environment
• Strong strategic thinking and structuring skills, with the ability to synthesize complex topics into clear narratives and recommendations
• Solid analytical capability and problem-solving skills
• Financial acumen to support initiative sizing, business cases, and value tracking
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including executive-level presentations
• PMP (Project Management Professional) certification is an advantage