Finance Manager- Sales Strategy

Finance Manager- Sales Strategy

Job Description

You’re not the person who will settle for just any role. Neither are we. Because we’re out to create Better Care for a Better World, and that takes a certain kind of person and teams who care about making a difference. Here, you’ll bring your professional expertise, talent, and drive to building and managing our portfolio of iconic, ground-breaking brands. In this role, you’ll help us deliver better care for billions of people around the world. It starts with YOU.

This position serves as the senior business partner being Financial Manager to the Vice President Business Unit Sales, focused on driving sales, operating profit and share growth across all retailer customer for assigned Business Unit.  This position supports customer development organizational goals through the development and execution of effective and efficient business plans, detailed financial analysis involving trade investments and gap closing opportunities, and robust control and compliance discipline.

This position provides financial leadership and direction to the Business Unit Sales team to support the achievement of business results by completing effective business plans, implementing strategic and tactical business initiatives, and proactively pursuing opportunities to close gaps to results or mitigating material business risks.  A principal activity of this position is to ensure that business and financial planning and control processes meet enterprise requirements and plans and programs are accurately presented and evaluated.

In this role, you will:

• Be financial and strategic advisory to the VP BU Sales and BU Sales Team

• Provide financial advice and counsel on all pertinent business matters by proactively supplying ongoing, timely, and meaningful financial analysis, including but not limited to business results, trade investment choices, and gap management programs.

• Deliver value to the organization with expert financial analysis, business consulting services and management of highly effective business planning and internal control processes.

• Foster a highly productive energetic environment in which smart risk taking and bias towards action is encouraged and rewarded. 

• Provide management oversight and control to ensure trade spending guidelines are met and that trade investment is efficient and effective.

• Demonstrate a commitment to delivering breakthrough value by proactively presenting ideas to generate incremental and profitable sales.

• Drive action and inspire change across functions through strong collaboration and communication, particularly with Brand Finance, BU Sales Analysts, Revenue Management and Customer Finance.

• Ensure application of efficient and effective financial and operating controls within the Corporation. 

• Promote sound internal control programs and support the Corporation's requirement for strong central financial control by reporting, to the Director of Finance – Customer Development, whenever Corporate Financial Policies or instructions are not being followed or appear inappropriate, inadequate or out-of-date.

About Us

Huggies®. Kleenex®. Cottonelle®. Scott®. Kotex®. Poise®. Depend®. Kimberly-Clark Professional®. You already know our legendary brands—and so does the rest of the world. In fact, millions of people use Kimberly-Clark products every day. We know these amazing Kimberly-Clark products wouldn’t exist without talented professionals, like you.

At Kimberly-Clark, you’ll be part of the best team committed to driving innovation, growth and impact. We’re founded on more than 150 years of market leadership, and we’re always looking for new and better ways to perform – so there’s your open door of opportunity. It’s all here for you at Kimberly-Clark.

Led by Purpose. Driven by You.

About You

You perform at the highest level possible, and you appreciate a performance culture fueled by authentic caring.  You want to be part of a company actively dedicated to sustainability, inclusion, wellbeing, and career development.

You love what you do, especially when the work you do makes a difference. At Kimberly-Clark, we’re constantly exploring new ideas on how, when, and where we can best achieve results. When you join our team, you’ll experience Flex That Works: flexible (hybrid) work arrangements that empower you to have purposeful time in the office and partner with your leader to make flexibility work for both you and the business.

In one of our professional roles, you’ll focus on winning with consumers and the market, while putting safety, mutual respect, and human dignity at the center. To succeed in this role, you will need the following qualific