Senior Strategy & Innovation Manager - Retail

• Higher education, preferably in Management, Economics, Engineering, or similar areas;
• Minimum professional experience of 5 years, ideally in Business Development, Strategy, Innovation, Consulting, Business Transformation, or commercial roles with a strong development component;
• Experience in identifying and developing new business opportunities and/or in launching new concepts, products, services, or value propositions;
• Strong commercial orientation and business vision, with the ability to simultaneously understand the customer's perspective and the economic impact of decisions;
• Experience in retail, consumer goods, operations, or B2C businesses, which will be particularly valued;
• Ability to structure and develop business cases, working with different scenarios, assumptions, KPIs, and financial and commercial indicators;
• Strong analytical capacity and ease in interpreting data, trends, and market information;
• Strategic thinking, combined with the will to make things happen and test on the ground;
• Curiosity, creativity, and the ability to question the status quo and find new ways to create value;
• test & learn mindset, feeling comfortable in contexts of uncertainty and with the evolution of an idea through experimentation.

We appreciate your interest in this opportunity! Your application will only be considered complete after completing a digital assessment. At the end of the application, and if you meet the necessary criteria for the role, you will receive a link to access it in your registration email. This step is mandatory, as our recruitment process is based on skills assessment.

We are a company for everyone and by everyone. At MC, we put people at the center: customers, employees, and the community. We create value together, innovate at every step, and lead closely, recognizing each individual's qualities.

Different stories, experiences, and ideas unite us in a single purpose: to grow and reach the best version of ourselves. Because everything we are, we achieve together.

That's why, join us!

Do you want to identify and develop the next business concepts that can transform retail?

We are looking for a Senior Strategy & Innovation Manager - Retail to join our Non-Food Commercial Directorate, in Matosinhos, and we believe we will be #betterwithyou!

We are looking for someone with a strong business vision, curiosity about the market, and the ability to transform opportunities into concrete value propositions.

Someone who enjoys understanding trends, behaviors, and customer needs, identifying new growth opportunities, building business concepts, and taking them from idea to market.

Your mission will be to identify, develop, test, and scale new business opportunities and new retail concepts, working closely with different areas of the organization.

From identifying the opportunity and building the value proposition, to analyzing business potential and defining the model, through implementing pilots and deciding on their evolution and scale.

We count on you to...

• Identify new business opportunities, market trends, customer needs, and growth spaces for the Non-Food business;
• Explore and develop new concepts, services, value propositions, and business models, transforming market insights into concrete opportunities;
• Build and challenge the value proposition of new concepts, ensuring their relevance to the customer and differentiation in the market;
• Evaluate the attractiveness and viability of opportunities through market analysis, competition, customer insights, benchmarks, data, and business indicators;
• Develop business cases and their respective economic rationale, evaluating the size of the opportunity, main value drivers, necessary investment, risks, and growth potential;
• Work closely with areas such as Commercial, Marketing, Customer, Operations, Store Design, and Digital, among others, to transform opportunities into concrete solutions;
• Define the best way to test new ideas in the market, designing pilots and MVPs that allow for the rapid validation of key hypotheses;
• Monitor pilots on the ground, analyze results, listen to customers and teams, and transform learnings into decisions;
• Recommend, based on data and real learning, whether we should adjust, accelerate, scale, or discontinue each initiative;
• Prepare the concepts with the highest potential for scale, ensuring the evolution of an initial idea into a sustainable and replicable business model;
• Create bridges between different teams and stakeholders, mobilizing the organization around the identified opportunities;
• Promote a culture of curiosity, experimentation, test & learn, and business orientation.

Therefore, bring with you...

Someone who doesn't just come to manage a pre-defined project.

We are looking for someone who wants to understand what the next business, concept, or value proposition should be, build that opportunity, test if it works, and help us transform it into a new source of growth for MC.

If you like to combine strategy, customer, business, and execution, this challenge could be for you.

What we have for you...

• Meal Allowance on Cartão Dá;
• Telecommunications Plan including voice, data, and equipment;
• Flex it Up Program - Extra Days Off, Unpaid Leave, and Flexible Working Model;
• Health Insurance and Life Insurance, with the possibility of extending Health Insurance to the family unit;
• Flexible Benefits Program;
• School Awards and Merit Scholarships for children of employees, in regular and inclusive education, as well as Holiday Programs during school breaks;
• Internal Mobility programs for talent promotion and development;
• Somos Sonae Program, providing psychosocial, financial, and legal support to employees;
• Discount and Partnership Program with more than 300 leading brands;
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment.

Join us and help us build the next businesses and concepts that will transform retail. #betterwithyou

#BETTERTOGETHER #BETTERWITHYOU

MC Sonae D&I Commitment:
We work to create a work environment based on the richness of profiles and focused on uniqueness, ensuring that everyone feels respected, valued for their skills, and has confidence in the organization.