Director Commercial Finance & Revenue Growth Management
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Job Location:
Breda - Netherlands
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
Yesterday
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
As Director Commercial Finance & RGM you will be the strategic and financial business partner to the EMEA (Europe Middle East & Africa) Commercial organization and drive Commercial Finance and RGM processes and best practices for the International business segment.
What You Will Lead & Deliver
1. Commercial & RGM Strategy
- Build deep insight-driven category consumer and customer understanding.
- Co-develop the EMEA Commercial strategy (Category Marketing Innovation Channel).
- Design a competitively advantaged portfolio & Route-to-Market (RTM).
- Develop RGM strategies (pricing trade terms promotions) to deliver sustainable margin growth.
2. Annual Operating Plan (AOP) & Forecasting
- Translate strategy into a principles-based AOP: Volume Net Sales Margins.
- Secure required investment (gross-to-net sales advertising & promotion Commercial resources).
- Create aligned balanced targets across EMEA sub-regions and channels.
- Leverage the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process enabling strong business ownership and decision making.
3. Operational Excellence
- Lead the Commercial Performance Management Cycle.
- Identify and act on risks & opportunities from external volume and margin performance perspectives.
- Ensure effective RGM execution to deliver or exceed plan.
- Accelerate innovation and RTM initiatives with pace and measurable impact.
- Hold Commercial leaders accountable for near- and long-term results.
4. Leadership & Culture
- Lead coach and develop a team of eight professionals
- Drive a Commercial organization that is externally focused and competition-obsessed.
- Embed fact-based decision making powered by RGM insights.
- Foster Lamb Weston values: integrity teamwork inclusion drive for results and empowerment.
- Communicate priorities clearly and influence across functions and geographies.
- Ensure strong succession planning and development pathways.
You will be the Finance business partner for the entire EMEA Commercial organization covering:
Marketing (Product Studio)
Innovation Consumer Insights Brand Digital Trade Marketing
Channels
Foodservice & Multinational Chains Retail Ambient & Appetizers
Sales Execution
UK & Ireland Europe Middle East & Africa
You will also drive Commercial Finance and RGM processes and best practices for the International business segment (encompassing EMEA as well as China Asia Pacific and Latin America) and alignment with the North America business segment.
What You Bring
Education & Experience
- Masters degree in Finance Controlling Business or equivalent.
- 15 years of experience in commercial finance/controlling in an international environment (FMCG/Agri preferred).
- Strong background (knowledge and experience) preferably including:
- Commercial strategy & business planning
- RGM strategy & execution
- Route-to-Market development
- Innovation project management
- Business process redesign
Skills & Leadership
- Proven success leading and developing high-performing teams.
- Ability to drive performance today while building future capability.
- Sharp external orientation; strong insight generation.
- Excellent analytical skills and data triangulation capabilities.
- Clear persuasive communicator across diverse internal stakeholders.
- Fluent in English; Dutch or other European languages beneficial.
Why Join Lamb Weston
You will step into a critical leadership role with significant influence over the future business strategy and performance. This is an opportunity to create impact at scaleshaping strategy building capability and driving performance in a business with global reach.
If you are energized by challenging industry dynamics leading and collaborating with diverse teams and unlocking commercial value in a data-driven way we look forward to meeting you.
We offer you a challenging job in a dynamic and growing organization in the food industry. We challenge you to grow in the same way as our company where development is key. We thrive in a culture defined by our values: Integrity Teamwork Inclusion Drive for Results and Empowerment. As we say at Lamb Weston when we see a potato we see opportunities do you see
Required Experience:
Director
Key Skills
- Accounting Software
- Forecasting
- Ellucian
- Financial Report Writing
- GAAP
- Accounting
- Corporate Finance
- Financial Analysis
- Financial Modeling
- Budgeting
- Financial Management
- Financial Planning
About Company
Lamb Weston is a world leading brand in high quality frozen potato products, sold in over 100 countries. A partner in potatoes famous for its inventive fries such as Twisters, Hot2Home and Dippers .
