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Job Description:
This role reports to the Vice President, Investor Relations & Corporate Finance and will lead a team consisting of a Director, an Associate Manager, and an Analyst. This role will partner with the Vice President on key strategic initiatives and priority setting for the team and will be expected to fully lead the day-to-day Investor Relations activity.
Primary Responsibilities:
General Mills (GIS) is seeking a highly motivated and experienced Head of Investor Relations to lead its Investor Relations team. In this pivotal leadership role, you will be responsible for clearly communicating GIS’s strategy, results, and shareholder proposition to both external and internal stakeholders. By helping shape GIS’s financial messaging, fostering strong relationships with the investment community, and providing critical investor perspectives to GIS management, you will drive decisions that maximize shareholder value. This is an exceptional opportunity to lead a high-performing team within a world-class company whose purpose is to make food the world loves.
This role reports to the Vice President, Investor Relations & Corporate Finance and will lead a team consisting of a Director, an Associate Manager, and an Analyst. This role will partner with the Vice President on key strategic initiatives and priority setting for the team and will be expected to fully lead the day-to-day Investor Relations activity.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute strategies for IR messaging, investor targeting, and investor outreach
- Develop and maintain strong relationships with GIS senior management, business leads, and functional leads
- Build effective relationships with sell-side analysts and buy-side investors, responding to shareholder communication in a timely and accurate manner
- Craft company messaging, in partnership with the broader IR team, for quarterly earnings, conferences, roadshows, and investor days, including press releases, presentations, scripted remarks, and question-and-answer materials
- Represent GIS in regular 1:1 engagement (meetings, calls, etc.) with institutional shareholders and targets
- Execute non-deal roadshows and sell-side conferences with GIS senior management
- Prepare regular reports to GIS board and senior management summarizing stock performance, GIS shareholdings, analyst estimates, investor sentiment, and market dynamics
- Represent IR, in partnership with GIS Legal and Global Impact teams, in engagement interactions with shareholder governance and proxy voting teams
- Lead and develop a team of three individuals – and work seamlessly with other stakeholders across the Finance function and Segments.
- Requires travel to Investor meetings. Travel is approximately 25%.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university
- 10 years of experience in finance, including at least 7 years working across sell-side equity research roles, buy-side institutional investment roles, and/or investor relations roles at publicly traded companies
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including experience crafting communications for stakeholder audiences
- Outstanding financial acumen, including understanding of markets, financial modeling, and valuation. Knowledgeable of SEC regulations and financial disclosure requirements
- Proven experience building and maintaining relationships with key external and internal stakeholders
- Strong alignment with General Mills core values: doing the right thing all the time, winning together, continuously innovating, and championing belonging
- Service oriented, intellectually curious, and passionate about delivering results
Preferred Qualifications
- MBA or other advanced degree
- Experience within the Consumer Staples sector
- CFA and/or Investor Relations Charter (IRC) certifications
We exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.