Senior Strategy Manager

Hybrid

Posted 4 months ago

Strategy & Legal

Job Description

Own the global McDonald's account growth strategy, translating market intelligence, customer insight, and competitive analysis into a clear, coordinated multi-year plan that guides investment decisions and expansion priorities. The role drives execution of the global strategy through regional markets — embedding plans, building a global operating framework that enables markets to work consistently and efficiently, and identifying where local opportunities can be scaled for broader adoption. By maintaining a continuous intelligence loop between market activity and global strategic direction, the role ensures the growth strategy remains live, grounded in real market signals, and capable of creating compounding value across the global account.

Responsibilities

Key responsibilities for this role

Account Growth Strategy

Own and maintain the McDonald's 1–3 year global account growth plan, ensuring alignment with Coates' broader three-year vision and measurable targets across markets and solutions.

Report on progress against the growth plan, escalating required changes and ensuring leadership and BD governance have accurate, timely visibility of strategic performance.

Represent the McDonald's global account at BD governance forums, ensuring strategic priorities are visible and pipeline opportunities are actively progress.

Global Strategy Execution & Market Embedding

Drive the translation of the global growth strategy into market-level plans, working with regional account teams to ensure local execution reflects global strategic intent and priorities.

Develop and maintain a global operating framework for market account teams, providing consistent tools, guidance, and strategic context that enables markets to operate efficiently and in alignment with the global plan.

Establish clear accountability with market teams for execution against agreed strategic milestones, tracking progress and actively managing dependencies and misalignments that cut across markets.

Market Intelligence & Global Scalability

Manage customer intelligence processes and facilitate regular Risks & Opportunities (R&O) sessions globally, synthesising market-level insights into actionable strategic inputs.

Assess local and market-specific growth opportunities for potential global applicability, developing a structured view of which initiatives have the scale, commercial viability, and client appetite for global adoption.

Feed validated market intelligence and scalability assessments back into the global growth strategy, ensuring the plan evolves in response to real market signals rather than assumptions.

Cross-functional Alignment & Commercial Development

Collaborate with the McDonald's Product Roadmap Manager to ensure the product roadmap supports and enables growth plan objectives, and to inform business development plans based on GTM readiness.

Partner with the Account Director to align current execution with future plans, determine strategic direction, and ensure commercial opportunities identified through strategy work are progressed into pipeline.

Monitor the competitive landscape to identify threats and opportunities relevant to the account, informing strategic positioning and commercial decision-making.

Requirements

Qualifications and experience

Minimum 5–8 years' experience in strategy, business development, or commercial planning roles, with demonstrated progression to a senior individual contributor or manager level

Proven experience developing and executing multi-year commercial or account growth strategies within complex, global enterprise environments

Strong background in market intelligence, opportunity analysis, and risk and opportunity management — with experience translating insights into actionable strategic plans

Demonstrated ability to work across global and regional teams, driving alignment and accountability against a shared strategic direction

Experience collaborating with product or technology teams to inform go-to-market planning and business development pipeline

Track record of identifying and converting growth opportunities within existing enterprise accounts or market segments

Experience working within or alongside large-scale technology deployment or managed services environments (highly desirable)

Familiarity with the QSR industry, digital merchandising, or global franchise operating models (highly desirable)

Experience operating within a global account or market framework, with an understanding of how global strategy translates into diverse local operating contexts (desirable)

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Posted on: May 18, 2026
Job type: Full-time
Location: SydneyHybrid

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