Director, Strategy & Planning

Company Description:

McDonald’s is proud to be one of the most recognized brands in the world, with restaurants in over 100 countries that serve 70 million customers daily. We continue to operate from a position of strength. Our updated growth strategy is focused on staying ahead of what our customers want and realizing further growth potential. Our relentless ambition is why McDonald’s remains one of the world’s leading corporations after almost 70 years. Joining McDonald's means thinking big and preparing for a career that can have influence around the world.

At McDonald’s, we see every day as a chance to create positive impact. We lead through our values centered on inclusivity, service, integrity, community and family. From support of Ronald McDonald House Charities to our Youth Opportunity project and sustainability initiatives, our values keep us dedicated to using our scale for good: good for our customers, people, industry and planet. We also offer a broad range of outstanding benefits including a sabbatical program, tuition assistance and flexible work arrangements.

We are enjoying the flexibility of a hybrid work model, in which employees spend part of their week connecting with co-workers in our state-of-the-art headquarters. Located in the booming West Loop of downtown Chicago, it's set up to be a global hub that cultivates collaboration:

• Take a class at Hamburger University
• Sample future items in our Test Kitchen
• Utilize the latest technology to connect with your team around the globe

We are an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our crew members, staff, operators, and suppliers. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone.

Job Description:

The Director, Strategy & Planning will report directly to our Global Chief Supply Chain Officer and be responsible for: 

STRATEGIC PLANNING: Lead Global team processes to develop GSC’s multi-year strategic plan. This work will require you to lead: 

• Process 
• Lead design, execution, and iterative improvement of GSC strategic planning process to drive integrated goals and action for GSC aligned back to enterprise goals and processes  
• Stakeholder Leadership & Collaboration 
• Develop strong working relationships with leadership across the organization to effectively facilitate cross-team priority setting.  
• Work closely with Corporate Strategy and Corporate Finance to align GSC’s priorities with broader enterprise priorities, including company-wide strategy and transformation efforts as well as financial targets  
• Lead communication of GSC’s strategy to the enterprise including but not limited to global, markets, suppliers and other functions to ensure alignment and collaboration to meet strategic goals  
• Measurement & Tracking 
• Design and execute approaches to measure and track progress on GSC’s strategic plans. 
• Work with leadership to establish and track progress indicators on annual and strategic plans. 

LEADERSHIP, SYSTEM & GLOBAL TEAM ALIGNMENT: Support and enable the effectiveness of the Global Supply Chain Leadership Team and System Leadership Structure and Processes. In this role, you will: 

• Partner with the Chief Global Supply Chain Officer, GSC Leadership Team, and GSC HRBP to create and operationalize the teaming structure and processes to build sustained cross-organizational collaboration and engagement. 
•  This includes championing the communication strategy for the Global Supply Chain organization, inclusive of creating and executing the functional calendar, GSC Townhalls, Around GSC Newsletter, Supplier Brief, and additional System communications. 
• Drive the process to create and advance agendas for GSCLT meetings, ensuring key objectives are achieved, managing delegation of post-meeting actions, and leading facilitation of meetings as needed. This includes managing the prioritization of key initiatives and tracking success of delivery outcomes and project deadlines.  
• Partner with Strategy & Alignment leaders across McDonald’s to bring best practices across talent, culture, engagement, and team operations to Global Supply Chain 
• Partner closely with GSC HRBP to drive and champion People & Culture priorities  

INITIATIVES ALIGNMENT & MANAGEMENT: Provide and enable project management support for special initiatives as needed. In this role, you will: 

• Organize, facilitate, and provide support for key cross-functional and enterprise initiatives as defined by the Senior Leadership Team.  
• Align delivery of special projects to broader McDonald’s priorities and approaches  

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT: Partner with FP&A team members & GSC leaders on functional and project budgets 

Qualifications:

Key Proficiencies include: 

• Exceptional leadership management capabilities with the ability lead through influence and drive change and growth across many levels of organization 
• Exceptional communicator and listener who can tailor their message to different audiences and synthesize multiple perspectives into simple, digestible calls to action 
• Serve as a trusted advisor to executives through reliability, ability to solve problems and resolve conflicts, and maintain discretion 
• Ability to identify bottlenecks or opportunities for improvement and implement solutions to ensure operations run smoothly and efficiently  
• Self-starter able to independently establish direction, priorities, initiatives, and drive to closure 
• Strong project and team management capabilities with the ability to manage multiple stakeholder expectations. 
• Proficiency in Excel and PPT, comfortable creating executive-facing decks and presentations 
• Experience navigating and driving change in matrixed organizations 

Requirements: 

• Undergraduate degree 
• Communications Experience 
• Previous experience in strategic planning  
• Demonstrated success in leading sophisticated projects or programs requiring complex stakeholder management 

Additional Information:

McDonald’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to the diversity of our workforce. We promote an inclusive work environment that creates feel-good moments for everyone. McDonald’s provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities as part of the application or hiring process or to perform the essential functions of their job. If you need assistance accessing or reading this job posting or otherwise feel you need an accommodation during the application or hiring process, please contact mcdhrbenefits@us.mcd.com. Reasonable accommodations will be determined on a case-by-case basis.

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