Strategy Manager, North America at Faerch Group in Portage, IN

Bring Focus. Drive Alignment. Turn Strategy into Action. We’re not maintaining a machine. We’re Building the Engine.

Faerch North America is executing an ambitious 2030 strategy built on four pillars: • We have the customer at the heart of what we do • We continuously deliver operational excellence • We positively contribute to the world around us • We work as one team with shared values

Today, we have strong ideas, ambitious goals, and multiple initiatives moving in parallel.

What we need now is clarity, prioritization, and execution.

We are looking for a Strategy Manager who can step into this environment, ask the right questions, connect the dots, and help turn strategy into coordinated action across the business.

Strategy Manager – North America

Faerch North America

Reports to: Senior Director, Strategy, Transformation and M&A

Dotted Line Reports to: Managing Director North America Location: United States

The focus for the role is to support the Managing Director of North America and the global CEO in ensuring successful delivery of Faerch’s North America priorities.

This is not a slide-building role. It is a hands-on transformation role for someone who can bring structure to ambiguity, challenge thinking, and move initiatives forward by aligning the right people at the right time.

What You Will Own

Turn Strategy into Action

• Build and maintain North America market perspective including competitive insights.
• Identify commercial and operational priorities across the organization, including key customer segments, customers, sales channels.
• Partner directly with North America and global leadership to define and continuously refine strategic priorities.
• Bring clarity to a growing set of initiatives by helping the business prioritize what matters most.
• Translate strategy into executable plans with clear ownership, milestones, and outcomes.

Drive Cross-Functional Execution

• Lead and coordinate cross-functional initiatives across commercial, operational, and support functions.
• Bring the right stakeholders together, ask the right questions, and drive decisions forward.
• Identify where work is stuck and proactively unblock progress through alignment and action.
• Ensure consistency in how initiatives are executed across sites and teams.

Build Structure in a Growing Organization

• Establish local strategic governance rhythms including actions, decision points, and escalation paths including KPIs and status reporting
• Create visibility for leadership without adding unnecessary complexity.

Strengthen Market and Business Insight

• Build and maintain a strong understanding of the North America market, including competitors, customer segments, and commercial opportunities.
• Identify where to focus resources for the greatest impact on growth and performance.
• Support M&A strategy development and help establish relationships in the local market.

Lead Strategic Projects End-to-End

• Lead and coordinate cross-functional project teams for customer onboarding, product transitions, process improvements, standardization initiatives, and other operational priorities.
• Ensure projects follow a consistent lifecycle from kickoff to completion, including documentation, stakeholder updates, and lessons-learned review.
• Support capital projects through business cases, coordination and governance (technical ownership remains with engineering).
• Lead project reviews, steering committee meetings, and periodic leadership briefings.
• Coach and elevate project ownership capability across the organization.

What Success Looks Like

• Clear, aligned strategic priorities across North America.
• Fewer disconnected initiatives and stronger focus on what drives impact.
• Consistent execution of key initiatives across sites.
• Leadership teams that are aligned, decisive, and moving faster.
• High-visibility projects delivered on time with clear business outcomes.

What Makes You a Strong Fit

A Driver of Execution

• You don’t just analyze problems. You move them forward.
• You are comfortable stepping into ambiguity and creating structure quickly.
• You have a bias toward action and help others make decisions when things stall.

A Connector and Challenger

• You know how to bring the right people together to solve complex problems.
• You ask the questions others don’t think to ask and surface what matters.
• You can challenge senior leaders constructively and influence without authority.

A Structured Thinker with Real-World Experience

• You bring strong analytical and problem-solving skills grounded in practical execution.
• You are able to connect commercial, operational, and strategic perspectives.
• You have experience leading cross-functional initiatives or transformations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Operations, Business, or related field.
• 3–5+ years of leadership experience in business strategy and project delivery.
• Experience in food, packaging, consumer goods, or similar industries preferred.
• Proven ability to lead projects and influence across functions.

Why This Role is Different

This role sits at the center of Faerch’s North America business and works directly with senior leadership to shape and drive execution.

You will have visibility, access, and the ability to influence how the business operates. More importantly, you will help create the structure and alignment needed to support the next phase of growth.

If you are someone who sees what others miss, brings order to complexity, and pushes teams toward action, this role offers a unique opportunity to make a measurable impact.

About the Team

What is is like to be part of Faerch Group?

Working at Faerch means becoming part of an international organisation committed to ensuring a sustainable future by creating true circularity in food packaging. Our organisation is made up of dedicated individuals working together to achieve our purpose and continuously strenghten our business.

We believe that individual growth is essential to our collective success, and you can expect support for your professional and personal development.

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis, so we encourage interested candidates to apply as soon as possible.

About the Company

Faerch is an international business, powered by strong people. We are passionate about our products and purpose to lead the food packaging industry into true circularity.

We hire to elevate. This means that we bring in people who share our dedication to raising the bar. People that continuously strive to develop.