Corporate Strategy Lead

Lead complex strategic assignments and turn future opportunities into clear choices and value for Rabobank.

You & your role

As Corporate Strategy Lead, you know the secrets of… turning uncertainty into clear strategic direction. You lead complex strategy and business development assignments, connect external trends with customer and market needs, and help senior stakeholders make well-founded choices. You challenge established thinking, bring multidisciplinary teams together and build commitment around opportunities with real potential.

Examples from practice

• Explore how developments in technology, regulation or society could affect Rabobank’s future direction.
• Develop and validate a business case for a promising new opportunity and create senior sponsorship.
• Connect strategies and major change initiatives across Rabobank to strengthen coherence and shared priorities.

Facts & figures

• 40 hours per week.
• At least 5 years of relevant professional experience.
• A position in scale 10 or 11, depending on your experience and the complexity you can manage independently.

Top 3 responsibilities

• Lead complex strategic assignments, frame enterprise-level choices and advise senior stakeholders on risks, dependencies and trade-offs.
• Translate customer needs and external developments into future scenarios, strategic implications and clear recommendations for Rabobank.
• Advance promising opportunities through discovery, business-case development and validation, while building sponsorship, commitment and ownership.

You connect strategy to value by clarifying priorities and ownership, monitoring critical assumptions and adapting the strategic approach when new evidence becomes available.

Together we achieve more than alone

We believe in the power of differences. By combining people's differences, we become an even better bank. We are curious about what you will bring to our team at the Corporate Strategy Office.

‘The most resilient strategies are not built for a single future, but for the ability to adapt as the future unfolds’.

The 10 colleagues of the Corporate Strategy Office help Rabobank look beyond today and make better choices for tomorrow. Collaboration is our way of working, as one focused team within Rabobank. You work with colleagues, senior stakeholders, business and support domains, and specialists from across Rabobank. Together, you create room for open challenge, clear decisions and high-quality results.

Work on yourself & the world around you

For us, your development and that of society go hand in hand. That is why we want to invest in you and work together to create a better world. We summarise this in one sentence: “At Rabobank, you work on yourself and the world around you simultaneously.”

This is reflected in your personal development budget, our hybrid work environment and a good work-life balance. You can also contribute to banking for our personal and business clients, as well as to social issues such as the food and energy transitions.

In the Corporate Strategy Office, you gain exposure to a wide range of strategic domains and senior decision-makers. You deepen your expertise, broaden your perspective across Rabobank and further develop your leadership, influencing and coaching skills.

Why everyone is welcome at Rabobank

At Rabobank, we are working towards a culture where everyone feels welcome. We value our differences and use them to collaborate more effectively and make better decisions. We do this step by step, paying attention to what is going well and to the areas where we can continue to improve. By being open to different perspectives, we are creating an environment where colleagues feel heard. That helps us build an organisation where people enjoy working and where we truly understand and serve our customers.

You & your talent

• A strong academic foundation in strategy, economics, business, finance, innovation, technology, sustainability, data or a related field.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience in corporate strategy, business development, consulting, innovation, corporate finance or transformation.
• Strong strategic judgement, with the ability to distinguish facts from assumptions and identify connections across different domains.
• Clear and influential communication, including building narratives, facilitating senior discussions and adapting your message to different audiences.
• Trusted stakeholder management, creating commitment among people with different interests without relying on formal authority.
• Professional proficiency in English; Dutch is useful but not required.

You & the application process

Responding to the vacancy Corporate Strategy Lead at Rabobank is possible until the 12th of November.

• For substantive questions about this role: Eelco Rietsema, Strategy Team Lead, via Eelco.rietsema@rabobank.nl.
• Questions about working at Rabobank and the procedure? Sanne Courant, Corporate Recruiter, via sanne.courant@rabobank.nl.
• If you are invited for an interview, Bo, our virtual assistant, will contact you via SMS and email to schedule the interviews.
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