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 to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we 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 unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact

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Why join our team?

pladis was established in June 2016 and brings together the much loved, global brands of Godiva, McVitie’s, Ulker, and DeMet’s under one pladis umbrella, to form a global giant in biscuits, chocolate, and confectionary. The UK&I pladis region employs 5,000 people across 13 locations in the UK&I (nine manufacturing / distribution sites and four office locations) and is an anchor market for the business.

The UK&I region has result-oriented plans and the Commercial Finance team play a vital role in ensuring delivery of long-term sustainable growth whilst fully understanding current performance. This role will influence the achievement of these plans at a brand level

What will this role achieve?

The successful candidate will need to understanding brand performance, drive innovation, and ensure marketing investments deliver strong return on investments. The role requires a friend approach, whilst building positive relationships, results-oriented plans and communicating commercials with clarity.

The role holder will report to the UK&I Commercial Finance Director, whilst working very closely with relevant partners in the Marketing and Innovation teams.

Partnering the McVitie's Brand Director and the broader brand team this role is the go to Finance contact and is fundamental to all NRM and volume driving activity

What will be your key results?

• Educate and define the strategy, vision and investment opportunities behind our brands, in partnership with Marketing Directors, to drive long term balanced growth
• Support on opportunities surrounding promotions, pricing and pack architecture to improve value for pladis and retailers, understanding system margin concepts
• Deliver outstanding commercial financial management, focussing on performance management, planning and forecasting, to recognise and forecast brand performance.
• Define the Financial support to the Brand Planning process, leading the marketing Brand Managers through construction of the Brand Strategies
• Maintain clarity over business performance, understanding drivers of performance (including trends, brand/customer/channel profitability and external competitor influences) which enable planning, supporting course correction and achieving opportunities
• Build detailed business/investment cases where appropriate to deliver Innovation and Brand opportunities across capital and marketing activation, managing within both financial and consumer return on investment benchmarks
• Provide strategic challenge and insight based on data and commercial experience, working with business partners to deliver the Plan
• Always remain curious , displaying a desire for ongoing continual improvement by delivering commercial and process insight in an engaging way
• Design, manage and evolve best in class toolkits and techniques for efficient and effective analysis, diagnosis and decision making within business governance cycles
• Evaluate the Innovation plans to formulate and model Innovation opportunities, applying knowledge, influencing the Commercial proposition and understanding costings to deliver margin accretive innovation opportunities aligned to hurdle rates
• Support Commercial upskilling of Commercial partners, leading the Finance agenda, working across the teams to enable commercially aware, agile decision making
• Ensure robust financials behind all investment decisions
• Understand and evaluate Net Revenue Management Financials
• Role modelling for more junior Finance and Commercial team members

What do you need for this role?

Essential

• Proven FMCG Commercial Finance experience post qualification
• A passion for Commercial Finance, able to understand and communicate internal and external performance trends is essential.
• A have a positive demeanour with a desire to challenge and drive improvement.
• Proven delivery in Commercial Finance Roles, with strong leadership, collaboration and communication skills.
• Good business ability to be able to build and develop long positive relationships
• Ability to work effectively in an ambiguous and changing role and able to drive agenda forward
• Strong financial and commercial acuity is essential
• Good SAP knowledge is important as well as strong capability in Microsoft Office, particularly excel and power point.
• A qualified accountant (ACCA/ACA/CIMA)

Desirable

• Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, accountancy, physical sciences, engineering or economics.
• Knowledge of Snacking categories and experience in Brand Planning
• External data performance knowledge desirable

• Our winning traits and behaviours

• Purpose-Led - Energised by our promise to deliver happiness to the world with every bite
• Agile - Ever evolving, never satisfied and never standing still
• Collaborative - Willing to work with others for mutual success, transparent
• Resilient - Quick to adapt to change, fast learner and persistent in the face of setbacks
• Positive - Self-motivated, optimistic, adventurous, and inspiring

Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do and is reflected across our business. pladis brings together brands and people from around the globe – and this diversity is our great strength.

We’re an equal opportunities employer and believe in encouraging an inclusive environment where we celebrate diversity of thinking and respect everyone’s distinctive qualities and perspectives.

We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform key job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation.

pladis is an Equal Opportunity 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.

We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List. If you are a recruitment agency and wish to submit candidate to be considered for this vacancy, you must have agreed to, and signed, our terms of business.
We will not accept CVs from any other sources other than those currently on our PSL. We will not pay a fee for any candidate that has not been represented by a provider on our PSL.