Job Details
The Role
At Hain Daniels we are currently recruiting for a Commercial Finance Manager working across our sites in the UK./ PURPOSE OF ROLE / USP'sKey Responsibilities
Reporting to the Head of Controlling, the Commercial Finance Manager manages the Commercial Finance Team, with 2 direct reports - Commercial Finance Analyst x2.
The role provides influential insight to the business, partnering with senior business leaders, primarily UK Sales Director, UK Finance Director, Heads of Marketing and Heads of Finance. The position supports and influences the business to make well informed decisions, driving topline revenue and bottom-line EBITDA.
The role is a pivotal contact for unlocking operating efficiencies, driving process improvements and challenging both the Finance team and the business to make improvements.
The role holder needs to have experience in leading people, project management and profit initiatives, preferably within an FMCG company with strong brands, operating in multiple categories and should have the energy and drive required to lead a high performing team.
The role guides the business to making effective commercial decisions based on robust data, thereby providing competitive advantage to the business, through greater understanding of our data, driving sales and margin improvement.
Position will complete miscellaneous projects as assigned.
Business Reporting
35%
Budget & Forecast Reporting
35%
Systems
20%
Training & Performance Management
10%
Technical/ Other Competencies
Description
Execution Skills/ Project Management
Ability to complete assigned goals and priorities of varying complexities. Experience of managing multiple tasks, completing priorities and conflicts; producing value added results, both as part of a team and individually
Communication, Influencing, Persuasion
Oral, written communication skills; able to address both small and larger groups; senior management presentation experience; ability to influence, persuade, convince and align stakeholders to ideas and direction
Problem Solving Approach & Methodology
Experience with problem solving situations; includes approaches used, tools, tactics used; managing for effective outcomes
Analysis Skills
Advanced Excel, ability to consider a situation and propose methods to understand it more effectively through data and numbers
Strategy Development, Innovation, Invention
Ability to use multiple inputs to establish direction; ability to set a pathway and establish a plan to achieve; critical thinking and creativeness to invent or re-engineer approaches; innovative, out-of-box thinking
Initiative/ Intuition & Entrepreneurial skills
Ability to independently evaluate, assess and initiate action; recognition of positive and negative impacts of actions, decisions other market forces on business and people; application of ideas and insight into daily work practice
Data, Process Analysis, Opportunity Assessment
Identification and quantification of business improvement, cost reduction and value add opportunities; includes utilization of tools, tactics and resources to leverage data; structure, framework and process to develop and propose opportunities
Continuous Improvement
Experience identifying, leading and managing continuous improvement efforts; structuring successful supplier relationships; addressing corrective action efforts; exposure to quality/ improvement philosophies and relevant applications
Relationship Management/ Collaboration
Developing trust from stakeholders and suppliers. Aligning people behind ideas and concepts; influencing and achieving outcomes through other groups. Resourcefulness, relationship development, tool utilization, and experiences of working with others to accomplish objectives through other groups. Resourcefulness, relationship development, tool utilization and experiences of working with others to accomplish objectives; proactively seek others for feedback, interest; sharing knowledge; inclusion and involvement
Interpersonal Contacts
Internal Contacts
All departments at levels of management
Finance Teams across the business. Cross functional supply chain teams.
Daily
External Contacts
Data and Finance institutions
Understand market trends (food and commodity)
Daily
Hain Daniels Values
Ambition and Energy
“Reach For The Stars”
Collaboration
“Teamwork makes the Dream Work”
Honest Open Communication
“Keeps it clear, transparent and real”
Innovation
“Create the future”
Excellent Quality
“Meet expectations with pride”
Versatility
“Wears Many Hats”
Equality
“Respect each other all the time”
SECTION 6 – CONDITIONS OF ROLE
Travel requirements, site specific/multi-site, Physical conditions i.e. Hot/Cold, indoors/Outdoors, hazardous, etc.)
Home office ideally Histon or Leeds Thorpe Park
Frequent domestic travel between HD UK sites.
What can we offer you?About Us
The Hain Daniels Group is one of the UK's leading food companies. We create food and drink products with natural goodness at their core. We're the business behind a host of household brands - Hartley's jams and jellies, Sun-Pat peanut butters, New Covent Garden Soup Co., Linda McCartney's meat free food, and Yorkshire Provender to name a few. Nearly half of our business is private label - we create quality freshly prepared fruit and juices, desserts, soups, sweet spreads and meat free products for our retail partners.
Our Vision
To make it easier for everyone to lead a healthier, balanced lifestyle. Without our great team of people, this vision couldn't be our reality.
Top Talent across the UK
Over our sites up and down the UK, we employ circa 1,200 people in roles within Production, Supply Chain, Product Development, Sales and Marketing, and through to our Finance, HR, IT and beyond. Each of our colleagues is vital to our continued success. That's why we target the best talent, and help to develop them through the ranks. In fact, almost a third of our vacancies were internal promotions and transfers last year.
Our Business behaviours
As a business we strive to promote from within and our underlying business behaviours really enable us to drive this strategic objective. We believe we can provide an opportunity for all individuals to grow and achieve with Hain Daniels through demonstrating core behaviours such as ambition & energy, collaborative working, honest communication, innovation, delivering excellent quality, embracing versatility and equality
If Hain Daniels sounds like the company you'd like to contribute your energy and enthusiasm towards, and come on an exciting journey with us, then we can't wait to hear from you!
Qualifications Benefits Not Specified