Manager Commercial Controlling (m/f/d)

DÖHLER

Germanyfull_timeVerifiedPosted 29 Jul 2026

About the role

Reference ID: 43182

Are you interested in high-quality, natural, and tasty nutrition?

We are! It’s our ambition to shape the future of nutrition.

Döhler is a leading global producer of natural ingredients and solutions for the food, beverage, lifestyle and nutrition industries. We use innovative technology to process plant-based raw materials and enrich products such as lifestyle drinks, cereals, dairy, and confectionery goods for almost every well-known brand. Close to 10.000 dedicated employees in more than 70 countries share one common goal - to ensure that millions of people around the world enjoy the products created by us.

We strive to inspire and empower our employees in everything we do, and we invite you to join our team – together WE BRING IDEAS TO LIFE.

Your role

As a Business Unit (BU) Controller at Döhler, you are much more than a numbers expert — you are a strategic sparring partner to our Business Units and play an active role in shaping the future development of our company. Working closely with management, you drive performance, portfolio, and profitability while bringing transparency to complex business relationships.

What matters most to us: we are not only looking for traditional controllers. We also explicitly welcome candidates with a strong commercial background, particularly in product management. If you have a deep understanding of markets, products, margin structures, and portfolio strategies, and would like to apply your analytical capabilities even more strongly in a financial steering role, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Your responsibilities

Act as a business partner and sparring partner for our Business Units
Provide input, challenge ideas constructively, and actively contribute to operational performance and strategic direction
Develop and implement modern KPI systems to continuously enhance our integrated steering framework together with the team
Analyze the strategic and operational objectives of the functions within your scope of responsibility and derive sound recommendations for action
Prepare reports and management presentations tailored to the target audience, interpret figures in their business context, and provide a solid basis for decision-making
Support the optimization, digitalization, and integration of reporting and business processes
Independently prepare ad hoc analyses for business partners and management
Contribute actively to portfolio steering and help shape the commercial development of our product and business strategy

Your profile

Degree in Business Administration, Business Informatics, Industrial Engineering, or a comparable field, ideally with a focus on Controlling, Product Management, or Strategic Management
Several years of professional experience as a business partner or sparring partner in controlling, product costing, strategic business development, or pricing
Alternatively, strong experience in a commercial role, such as product management, with a clear focus on financial and portfolio responsibility
Ideally, solid knowledge of and experience in the B2B food industry
Strong analytical skills combined with the ability to translate complex data and relationships into clear, strategically relevant decision-making support
A mindset that sees numbers not as an end in themselves, but as the basis for concrete recommendations and actions
Solution-oriented, precise, and entrepreneurial way of thinking
Strong communication skills at management level and experience in professional stakeholder management
A collaborative team player with a high level of ownership and the drive to move topics forward independently
Very good knowledge of MS Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint, as well as SAP BW and S/4HANA
Strong interest in working with new technologies, challenging existing processes, and actively driving digitalization in finance and reporting
Very good German and English skills