Corporate Development Manager

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and drive corporate development and performance improvement initiatives, ensuring clear linkage to corporate priorities and measurable value creation.
• Identify and quantify value levers across cost savings, margin improvement, and growth opportunities, translating insights into actionable initiatives.
• Analyze financial, commercial, and operational performance to identify gaps, challenge assumptions, and drive fact‑based decision‑making.
• Develop high‑quality, executive‑ready insights, presentations, and decision materials for senior leadership and Board‑level discussions.
• Lead cross‑functional and cross‑regional alignment, ensuring accountability for milestones, targets, and delivery of results.
• Establish and maintain robust governance and performance‑tracking frameworks, including KPI definition, value tracking and risk mitigation.
• Drive disciplined execution and follow‑up, ensuring initiatives deliver sustainable and measurable impact.
• Support and actively shape change management efforts, embedding a culture of accountability and performance excellence.

• 6–8 years of experience in corporate strategy, transformation, performance improvement, value creation or top‑tier consulting, ideally in a multinational environment.
• Strong experience in leading complex programs or work streams with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Excellent analytical and problem‑solving skills, with the ability to structure complex topics and translate them into clear roadmaps and business actions.
• Deep understanding of financial and commercial drivers (EBIT, margins, cost structures, productivity KPIs) and their connection to value creation.
• Strong business acumen with the ability to link strategy to execution and financial outcomes.
• Highly structured, hands‑on, and results‑oriented mindset with strong ownership.
• Strong communication skills.
• Collaborative team player with an international mindset.

Omya is a leading global producer of industrial minerals and a worldwide distributor of specialty materials. Our company was founded 140 years ago and remains a privately‑owned, independent company headquartered in Switzerland but with offices and plants in more than 50 countries. When you join Omya, you become part of a global team that uses its creativity, expertise and experience to make a difference to people’s lives.

Thinking of Tomorrow means focusing on the challenges of the future and how we can develop mineral products to solve them. This is a collaborative environment where people work towards common goals, with a common purpose. Our purpose, combined with our values of modesty, courtesy, integrity and perseverance, is the foundation of our business. Our values are relevant to our lives, not just our work.

All Omya employees, partners and suppliers are bound by a Code of Conduct which reflects our values and guides our behavior.