About The Role
Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family!
At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations:
* Enhanced pension scheme
* Private health scheme
* Employee discount scheme
* Experience annual pay reviews
* Profit related pay
* Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities
The Opportunity
You'll be joining a passionate and driven commercial team, focused on achieving success. In this key role, you'll play a central part in improving margins and customer engagement. Your responsibilities will range from scenario planning and cost modelling to analysing promotions and product mix, alongside supporting business-as-usual forecasting and costing processes.
Key Responsibilities:
* Forecasting & Planning: Lead the forecasting process and work closely with the commercial team to provide accurate projections for volume, sales and promotions.
* Customer Profitability analysis: Analyse individual customer profitability and work with the business to make recommendations for range changes, override and promotion proposals.
* Customer Cost Models: Develop and maintain customer cost models that forecast changes in commodity pricing, sales volume and mix.
* Scenario Planning: Lead scenario planning initiatives to assess financial impacts under various market conditions and business strategies.
* Reporting & Insights: Provide accurate and timely financial information and actionable insights to senior management on key financial metrics and business performance including post product launch reviews and post promo performance analysis.
The Ideal Candidate
We believe that success is built upon collaboration and diverse perspectives. At Samworth Brothers, we welcome candidates who are passionate about working together to achieve greatness. As a valued member of our team, you will bring the following skills and experience:
* CIMA/ACCA qualified or QBE
* Proven experience in commercial finance OR a FMCG manufacturing business
* Excellent Excel skills and experience with financial modelling is essential. Experience with Power BI is desirable.
* Strong understanding of the commercial side of the business, with the ability to link financial decisions to broader business objectives.
* Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex financial data in a clear and concise manner to non-financial stakeholders.
We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.
Join us at Samworth Brothers, where you'll be more than just a team member - you'll be an integral part of our thriving family. Apply today and embark on an exciting journey with us!
About Us
We are a fourth-generation family business producing high quality own-label products for many of the UK's best-known retailers along with our own brands including Ginsters, Soreen, Higgidy, Dickinson & Morris, Urban Eat, West Cornwall Pasty Company and Walker & Son. We employ over 10,000 people in well-invested modern food manufacturing sites around the country.
At Samworth Brothers we take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers. #J-18808-Ljbffr