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# Associate Director, Corporate Strategy & Development (all genders) at HelloFresh

- **Company:** HelloFresh
- **Location:** London, United Kingdom
- **Posted:** 2026-10-30
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-03
- **Apply:** https://careers.hellofresh.com/global/en/job/8337085?gh_jid=8337085

## Job description

## The role

As an Associate Director, Corporate Strategy & Development, you will be a senior member of a small, AI enabled team of highly driven and committed individuals, reporting to the Director Corporate Strategy & Development. This is a high-exposure role, acting as the strategic and analytical engine for our most important decisions in a team that reports directly to the Group CEO.

This role balances corporate development / M&A with corporate strategy. You lead projects across both areas as the day-to-day owner and guide a small number of more junior colleagues and internal functional experts. You operate with minimal direction and take projects from a vague problem statement to a CEO-ready recommendation. You also stay hands-on, personally building the models and analysis and preparing the executive-level outputs that drive investment and strategy decisions.

## What you’ll do

- M&A Strategy: Lead M&A projects end to end (owning small and mid-sized transactions independently and partnering with the Director on the largest, transformational deals), from target screening and valuation through due diligence, negotiation preparation, and post-deal integration. Run deal teams day to day, coordinate external advisors and act as the lead with target management teams or their advisors. You are not just a process manager but can form and defend a point of view on whether and why a deal makes strategic sense and present it directly to senior leadership.
- Portfolio Optimization: Lead the strategic analysis and recommendations for key portfolio decisions, including potential geo-expansions, new vertical or brand launches or divestments.
- Corporate Strategy: Contribute to the development of the Group's mid-term strategy by driving the process, owning the underlying analysis, strategic synthesis, and preparation of strategic documents.
- Capital Allocation: Own and develop analytical frameworks and models to support strategic budget allocation and ROI analysis.
- Business Unit Strategy: Act as a senior internal consultant, supporting our key business units across geographies on a project-by-project basis to develop their mid-term strategies and solve their most complex challenges.

## What you’ll bring

- Experience: 6+ years of high-performance experience from a top-tier Management Consulting firm, Investment Banking, or a comparable in-house Strategy / Corporate Development team. This includes leading projects or deal teams with minimal supervision.
- Process and deal leadership: You have led complex, multi-stakeholder processes to a deadline, coordinating internal functions and external advisors and managing senior counterparties such as target or client management teams. This can come from running M&A transactions (in-house corporate development or advisory) or from leading strategy projects with transaction exposure, such as due diligence, carve-outs, partnerships or market entries. Direct M&A process experience is a strong plus; the ability to learn it quickly is essential.
- Leadership and Influence: You have guided and developed more junior colleagues and influenced senior stakeholders, including through negotiation and building rapport with counterparties.
- Toolkit: Exceptional qualitative and analytical problem-solving skills. You are hypothesis-driven and can own and structure complex analytical problems from end-to-end. You structure ambiguous problems and set direction for others, not just solve them yourself. You are utilizing AI tools to meaningfully improve your productivity. Ability to build applications with AI coding tools is a plus.
- Financial Acumen: Expert-level financial modeling skills are required: you have built and defended complex models used for high-stakes investment or strategic decisions. Valuation experience is a plus. You are just as comfortable building analysis and models from scratch as you are managing processes and presenting recommendations to leadership.
- DTC economics: You are comfortable working with typical DTC KPIs like CAC, AOR, AOV, CLV, retention and understand how cohort economics build a P&L over time. DTC marketing analytics experience is a plus but not required.
- Communication: Proactive 360° communication and excellent ability to synthesize complex analysis into clear, concise storylines, presentations and memos for an executive audience.
- How you work: You take ownership of outcomes and pressure-test your own conclusions before presenting them. You go deep into the analysis to get to the right answer, and know when it is good enough to decide.

What you will get in return:

- 70% off HelloFresh or Green Chef boxes
- Company pension scheme
- Gym membership
- Bupa private medical insurance (including dental & family cover options)
- Mental health first aiders and an employee assistance programme
- Nursery support scheme
- Cycle to work scheme
- Group Life Assurance

Location: The HelloFresh Farm, 60 Worship Street, EC2A 2EZ, London

Hybrid Working Policy We offer a hybrid working policy for eligible roles, allowing flexibility to work from home and in the office. For more details on eligibility and how this applies to the role you're applying for, please consult with your recruiter.

Next steps: Your application will be reviewed and if successful, a member of the Talent Acquisition Team will be in touch within 2 weeks.

To be considered for this role, you’ll need to have the independent right to work in the UK, as we're unfortunately unable to provide sponsorship at this time.

You are required to cooperate with HelloFresh in all health and safety matters. You are responsible for ensuring you take reasonable care of your own health, and safety as well as others who may be affected by the work activities you undertake. You must report incidents immediately and actively raise health and safety-related concerns to your Line Manager. As part of our commitment to maintaining a safe and secure environment, we will process Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks to the successful individual. Failure to disclose relevant information at application or throughout the process could affect your employment with the company.

## About HelloFresh

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: HelloFresh is a global meal-kit and food solutions company that delivers pre-portioned ingredients and recipes directly to consumers, aiming to revolutionize the way people eat by making home cooking accessible, convenient, and sustainable.
- **Entity Type**: Public (Ticker: HFG on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange)
- **Headquarters**: Berlin, Germany
- **Founded**: 2011
- **Founders**: Dominik Richter, Thomas Griesel, Jessica Nilsson

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Meal Kit Delivery / Integrated Food Solutions
- **Target Customers**: B2C – primarily busy households, couples, and individuals looking for convenient, high-quality meal options. Also serves the ready-to-eat and pet food markets.
- **Mission Statement**: "Democratizing access to high-quality food" by allowing everyone to enjoy a varied, tasty diet while helping consumers save money and reduce food waste.

## Products & Services
- **HelloFresh (Core Meal Kits)**: The flagship subscription service offering pre-portioned ingredients and step-by-step recipes for a wide variety of meals. Type: Subscription-based physical goods.
- **Factor_**: A ready-to-eat, chef-prepared meal delivery service (operates in the US, Canada, and Australia). Type: Subscription-based physical goods.
- **Youfoodz**: A ready-to-eat meal brand in Australia. Type: Subscription-based physical goods.
- **EveryPlate**: A budget-friendly meal kit brand in the US and Australia. Type: Subscription-based physical goods.
- **Chefs Plate**: A meal kit brand in Canada. Type: Subscription-based physical goods.
- **Green Chef**: An organic-focused meal kit brand in the US. Type: Subscription-based physical goods.
- **The Pet Food Brands**: Premium pet food delivery services (e.g., The Pets Table in the US). Type: Subscription-based physical goods.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: As a public company, market cap fluctuates. As of mid-2025, it is approximately €1.5-2.0 billion (based on public trading data).
- **Key Metric (Annual Revenue)**: €6.76 billion in net revenue in FY 2025.
- **Key Metric (Meals Delivered)**: ~850 million meals delivered in 2025.
- **Key Metric (Employees)**: +29,000 employees globally.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: The company is publicly traded. Key institutional investors include major European and US asset managers. Strategic partnerships exist with various food suppliers and logistics providers.
- **Growth Signals**: The ready-to-eat segment (Factor, Youfoodz) is a major growth driver, now making up a quarter of total revenue. The company is expanding its ready-to-eat offerings into European markets, building on success in North America and Australia. The company operates in 17 countries with 8 different brands.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Scale & Data**: With over 18,000 recipes in its database and billions of meals delivered, HelloFresh has an immense dataset on consumer preferences, supply chain optimization, and recipe development, creating a significant moat in logistics and personalization.
- **Vertical Integration**: The direct-to-consumer model gives full control over the supply chain, from sourcing to delivery, enabling efficient operations, competitive pricing, and rapid response to customer needs.
- **Multi-Brand Strategy**: By operating a portfolio of brands (from budget-friendly EveryPlate to premium Factor), HelloFresh captures a wide range of customer segments and price points, reducing reliance on a single offering.
- **Global Footprint**: Presence in 16+ geographies provides diversification and allows for the cross-pollination of best practices and technologies across markets.

## Strategic Focus
- **Accelerating Ready-to-Eat**: The company is aggressively growing its ready-to-eat segment (Factor, Youfoodz) and expanding it into new European markets, seeing it as a high-growth, higher-margin opportunity.
- **Sustainability & Efficiency**: Continuous focus on reducing food waste, optimizing packaging, and improving supply chain sustainability. The company highlights its role in reducing household food waste compared to traditional grocery shopping.
- **Technology & Personalization**: Investing in data science and machine learning to improve menu personalization, demand forecasting, and operational efficiency.
- **International Expansion**: Leveraging success in core markets (US, Germany, Australia) to expand into adjacent geographies and product categories.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as a "global tech company" with a "local start-up vibe." The company emphasizes a data-driven, entrepreneurial, and ownership-oriented culture. Core values include Ownership, Inclusivity, and Innovation.
- **Diversity & Inclusion**: HelloFresh has over 10 employee resource groups (ERGs) and is committed to fostering a sense of belonging. The careers page states, "Everyone is welcome at our table."
- **Work Environment**: The company operates in 17 countries with multiple offices and distribution centers. Roles range from warehouse operations and logistics to software engineering, marketing, and data science.
- **Perks**: The company offers competitive pay and benefits, though specifics vary by location. The culture is described as collaborative, with a focus on "achieving something delicious, every day."
- **Growth Trajectory**: As a rapidly growing public company with a strong focus on innovation and expansion, employees have opportunities to work on high-impact projects and grow their careers across different brands and geographies.

## Sources
1. [hellofreshgroup.com](https://hellofreshgroup.com/en/)
2. [careers.hellofresh.com](https://careers.hellofresh.com/global/en/)
3. [hellofresh.com](https://www.hellofresh.com/about/working-at-hellofresh)
4. [careers.hellofresh.com/leadership](https://careers.hellofresh.com/global/en/leadership-at-hellofresh)
5. [careers.hellofresh.com/locations](https://careers.hellofresh.com/global/en/locations)

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