Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast-growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure, and people? Then this is the place for you.
As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don't compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.
To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient, and positive. We expect pace and agility, insist on collaboration, and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivaled opportunities to learn and make an impact.
Why join our team?
This role offers an agile 3,2 working pattern with 3 days in the office and 2 days from home.
pladis UK&I is home to iconic brands McVitie's, Jacob's, and Carr's. Together we will build new and exciting products at pladis - new flavours, new concepts, and new ways to share happiness.
Our strength is not only in our products but also in our people and our values. Each business that has united to form pladis Global is loved for its heritage and values. We will retain the honesty, integrity, and trust instilled in our brands by our ground-breaking founders as we embark on the next chapter of our success.
What will this role achieve?
The UK&I has ambitious plans. Our Customer Finance team are enthusiastic and honest business partners, helping the business build robust external relationships and maximizing internal value creation. They also ensure the Customer teams develop a better understanding of both consumer and trade dynamics to build more effective strategies.
Your team will drive the rituals and routines necessary to understand performance, deliver insightful and actionable financial analysis, provide rigorous financial control for a material trade investment budget, and evaluation processes to support the Customer team with customer investment decisions.
The role holder will report to the UK&I CFO, whilst liaising very closely with VP - Grocery and Director of Impulse. The role will be a member of the UK&I Extended Leadership Team and a key member of the Finance Leadership Team.
What will be your key deliverables?
* Development and delivery of the strategy, vision, and business processes from a Customer lens with business partners, to ensure execution of the brand plans to drive long-term sustainable revenue growth.
* Develop a strong business partnering culture, providing supportive challenge and valuable insight while ensuring ongoing continual improvement and robust financial controls.
* Provide key insight to the Customer team to drive better understanding of the drivers of performance (including trends, channel/customer profitability, and understanding of external retailer landscape and dynamics) and develop opportunities to drive more growth ensuring hitting plan is bare minimum.
* Create and lead effective routines to support a regular rhythm of business performance diagnostics, the annual planning process, and monthly forecast that reflect well thought through assumptions/basis of planning in order to better guide business decisions.
* Lead the team to prepare for customer discussions by preparing Joint business plan evaluations, influencing customer teams to drive a more for more mentality to maximize the investment through as well as modeling customer P&Ls.
* Deliver toolkits and techniques for efficient and effective analysis, diagnosis, and decision making within business on both a planned and ad hoc basis.
* Lead and develop a team of skilled Finance professionals, to deliver best in class financial management.
Bring your experience
Essential
* A strong leader, collaborator, and communicator with demonstrable experience of leading and developing teams, with previous experience of managing a team of five or larger.
* Ability to influence and work collaboratively across the organisation.
* Ability to work effectively with ambiguity, and able to drive agenda forward.
* Self-confidence and skill to challenge the most senior leaders in the business whilst maintaining robust financial control.
* Strong financial and commercial acumen built over a minimum of 10 years of experience.
* A qualified accountant (ACCA/ACA/CIMA).
Desirable
* Previous customer finance experience.
* Demonstrate experience of bringing new ways of working to simplify working practices whilst delivering on the day job.
* Creative thinking.
Our Purpose
Bring happiness with every bite. It's a purpose that every one of our colleagues, all around the world believes in. And while we're all unique, we also share the same values.
Our Values
Purpose led - We're energised and guided by our purpose to bring happiness with every bite.
Agile - We're ever evolving, we never stand still, always improving for our customers and our consumers.
Positive - We're highly motivated, optimistic, courageous, and we inspire each other to be better.
Resilient - We're persistent in the face of setbacks, quick to adapt, learn, and move forward.
Collaborative - We gain strength from operating as one pladis, winning and succeeding together.
Best mix of ingredients
pladis is an equal opportunities employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion, or any other classification protected by law.
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