Senior Finance Manager - Strategic Price Management - Düsseldorf

<p> </p> <p>Your responsibility <br/>  </p> <p><u>PL Tender Finance Coordination:</u> </p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Connect strategy with execution for our Private Label Business (with a strong focus on MYPC)</li> <li>Driving financial results by providing Tools, Processes and Negotiation support for Tenders. Close cooperation and management of Business Leadership (KAM-Directors, Supply Chain and Trading Finance)</li> <li>Provide regular update to Germany &amp; consequently EU Top Management before Tender (incl. Mandate), during Tender (e.g. status update, what if scenarios) and after Tender (holistic consolidation of results)</li> <li>Proactive role in agreement and alignment of performance targets (mandate) and assumptions within Germany</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><u>Forecast Prices:</u></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Hold the overall responsibility for establishing the reporting and forecasting processes for Prices in Germany for the business unit to reflect current business requirements and drive performance delivery</li> <li>Ensure that our prices deliver to the targeted EBIT situation via robust Price Signal calculations incl. Backup Material for MRM’s about profitability development (both Price and IMP related)</li> <li>Close coordination with Finance Business Partners/Sales Analysts, Performance Management and virtual EU Price Management</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><u>Portfolio Management and Pricing Intelligence</u></p> <p> </p> <ul> <li>Drive Portfolio Management across PL Business based on MUP or Sales Contribution</li> <li>Manage Private Label Pricing Strategy with external and internal data</li> <li>Drive introduction of new pricing models (e.g. raw material floating)</li> <li>Support exploration and delivery of new business opportunities (e.g. E2E business cases on sustainability / animal welfare)</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>Your profile<br/>  </p> <ul> <li>Master’s degree or a recognized business qualification with finance and/or accounting focus</li> </ul> <ul> <li>5+ years post-qualification experience ideally within sales, manufacturing or logistics finance. Food sector experience is also beneficial.</li> <li>Strong Business Acumen</li> </ul> <p> </p> <p>What we offer<br/>  </p> <ul> <li>Work-life balance: A 38.5 hour week, as well as time recording with flexible working hours - also from home and 30+ days holiday </li> <li>Culture: Our unique, Scandinavian corporate culture with flat hierarchies and short decision-making paths within our cooperative structure, as well as a high degree of appreciation, especially through our feedback culture, for example with 1:1 meetings </li> <li>Further development: access to our learning library for online training and global career opportunities  </li> <li>Employee benefits: Discounts on our entire product portfolio and access to the Corporate Benefits Programme with attractive discounts at gyms, for example  </li> <li>Sustainability: High standards of our strong sustainability concept </li> <li>Location: Culinary catering in our in-house company restaurant with daily fresh meals - enhanced with our Arla products and a Starbucks corner. Our office is also easy to reach thanks to good transport links and we offer free employee parking </li> </ul> <p><br/> Application and contact<br/>  </p> <p>Please apply through our website under reference of your salary expectations and your earliest availability. For further information please contact Elena Sampalioti, Head of Talent Acquisition, under +49 1714378801.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p> <p>Equal opportunity<br/> <br/> Arla Foods is a company with equal opportunities for everyone regardless of age, race, gender or any other criteria that is not a professional qualification for an open position. Purely for reasons of readability we have chosen to create all our job postings in male format. We explicitly look forward to all applications regardless if the candidate is male, female, diverse and will also exclude any other criteria from our screening process that is not professional qualification.</p> <p> </p> <p>Agency disclaimer<br/> <br/> Arla Foods Deutschland has chosen carefully selected external vendors (“Headhunter”) to work on specific roles and we hold long term working relationship with them. Arla Foods Deutschland is not seeking any new partners until further notice. Therefore we are asking you to refrain from any contact requests by phone, e-mail or in any other way towards any Arla Foods representatives. Please note that all candidate resumes that are send to us without a written and signed search assignment will be deemed made available free of costs. </p> <p> </p> <p>We have a purpose for Good</p> <p>At Arla, we strive to unlock the highest potential in each other while working together to create a sustainable future of dairy. We call it <a href="https://www.arla.com/sustainability/" target="_blank" title="https://www.arla.com/sustainability/">Stronger People Stronger Planet</a> and it is deeply anchored in our organisation and foun