SCHOTT

Manager Strategy & Projects (m/w/d)*

SCHOTT  •  Mainz, DE (Hybrid)  •  2 hours ago
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Job Description

About us

In this role, you will help define and execute the strategic agenda of SCHOTT Pharma. Positioned at the intersection of strategy, execution, and senior leadership, you will operate as an in-house consultant and trusted advisor to top management - owning high-impact initiatives from problem structuring to implementation.

Your Contribution

  • Own the Strategy Process: You drive SCHOTT Pharma’s end-to-end strategy cycle—structuring key questions, developing actionable roadmaps (e.g. DTC, Operations), and ensuring decision-ready outputs for executive leadership.
  • Advise Senior Stakeholders: You act as a trusted sparring partner to senior leaders, translating complex business challenges into clear hypotheses, strategic options, and tangible recommendations.
  • Lead High-Impact Initiatives: You take full ownership of cross-functional strategic projects across the value chain—from scoping and workplan design to execution and delivery.
  • Drive Execution & Results: You ensure that strategy translates into measurable impact—tracking progress, challenging assumptions, and proactively managing risks and deviations.
  • Create Executive-Level Communication: You develop crisp, insight-driven materials for steering committees and top management, enabling fast and well-informed decisions.
  • Elevate Strategic Capabilities: You strengthen problem-solving and strategy execution capabilities across the organization by introducing best-in-class methodologies and facilitating high-impact workshops.

Your Profile

  • Top-tier academic background in business, engineering, or natural sciences (PhD or equivalent strongly preferred)
  • Proven experience in top management consulting or a comparable in-house strategy role in an international industrial environment
  • Strong track record in strategy, operations, or transformation engagements with measurable business impact
  • Outstanding analytical and conceptual problem-solving skills with a structured, hypothesis-driven approach
  • Advanced expertise in project management and executive communication (incl. PowerPoint and Excel at consulting-grade level)
  • Fluent in English with excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills across seniority levels
  • High degree of ownership, drive, and resilience, with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced, high-expectation environment

Your Benefits

SCHOTT’s openness to promote your further development is just as great as our additional benefits. Ranging from active health management via flexible working hours and hybrid work all the way to corporate pension plans: everything geared to suit your goals and needs. Discover a special corporate culture where everyone has the opportunity to develop their entire potential.

At SCHOTT, you can expect a unique corporate culture where we emphasize equity, diversity, and inclusion. We know: motivated and committed employees are the precondition for the success of our company.

Subsidized pension plan; Holistic corporate health management; International assignments; Multiple career opportunities

Please feel free to contact us

You can expect interesting tasks and challenging projects, as well as motivated and friendly teams in fields that influence our future. Do you want to be successful with us? Then, please send us your application: SCHOTT Pharma AG & Co. KGaA, Human Resources, Eva Lemke,

*At SCHOTT, it’s your personality that counts – not your gender, your identity, or origin.

SCHOTT

About SCHOTT

When others say no, we say yes. Because at SCHOTT we believe that shared responsibility can release the energy to achieve the impossible. As a global technology and material group, we are constantly exploring unique and innovative ways to make a difference for businesses and people. Being a foundation company, SCHOTT has anchored a responsibility for scientific research, society and the environment deeply in its DNA. Represented in over 30 countries by 17,100 employees, we are a highly skilled partner for many high-tech industries: Healthcare, Home Appliances & Living, Consumer Electronics, Semiconductors & Datacom, Optics, Industry & Energy, Automotive, Astronomy & Aerospace. Whatever challenges the future might hold, we can’t wait to come up with innovative solutions and turn visions into reality.

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Industry
Manufacturing & Production
Company Size
5,001-10,000 employees
Headquarters
Mainz, DE
Year Founded
1884
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