Supply Chain Production Business Partner

Job description

Main Job Purpose

Key business partner to supply chain leadership team whose main responsibilities are:

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Translate Supply chain strategies into financial plan

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Business performance management delivering high quality insights facilitating effective decision making

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Scenario analysis on innovations and capital investments

Job Summary

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Translate Supply chain strategies into financial plan and monthly financial forecast

· Ensure weekly tracking of supply chain performance against forecast
· Identify value opportunities that require a particular intervention / project support from Finance Business Partner resources
· Evaluate projects in process to ensure they have a favourable payback and return on investment
· Drive better decision making around resource allocation and budget setting
· Undertake major performance interventions if needed
· Support supply chain team at the key decision gates of innovation business cases
· Review impacts of performance interventions
· Identify major risks and opportunities
· Facilitate development of corrective actions to close gaps to targets
· Facilitate identification and implementation of savings opportunities
· Ensure that a robust Capex expenditure process is in place and enforced

Business partnering and insight

· Collect data for base assumptions and liaise with Supply Chain, and relevant cross functional teams to build the base business case and sensitivity analysis
· Perform Business Case modelling (or facilitate self service) and articulate business case characteristics to non-Finance stakeholders
· Provide support in innovation funnel review analysis
· Embed the rigour, discipline and continuous improvement around Post-Launch Evaluations (PLEs) for implemented projects
· Provide insights to MCOs and Categories on innovation performance, contribution to company growth, PLE earnings and innovation trends

Process ownership and delivery

· Act as subject matter experts in building Innovation Business Cases
· Track Business Case (BC) progress including CAPEX projects
· Own the BC tool and seek continuous improvement, simplification & standardisation
· Build proactive Innovation Performance Management capabilities - maintain and continuously improve self-service tools and reports to track delivery of Innovation Business Cases (e.g. in market performance of key launches)
· Provide training to Business Partners on standard Business Case tools
· Develop a knowledge repository of best practices and share learnings with categories and countries

Key Requirements

· A Bachelor's degree and professional qualification CPA/ACCA
· 4-5 years' experience in finance business partnering with at least 1 year in manufacturing or supply chain
· Experience with the identification of risks & opportunities in the P&L
· Experience in driving P&L performance improvements (e.g. closing gaps vs. target) and holding others accountable (particularly peers and senior leadership)
· Significant experience managing a large and complex set of stakeholders
· Experience in presenting to and communicating with senior Finance and non-Finance stakeholders
· People management
· Stakeholder management
· Strong analytical skills, Excel modelling skills and attention to detail
· Strong organisational and prioritisation skills
· Strong engagement, presentation and communication skills
· Ability to work fluidly with data and across systems
· Ability to present complex information in a simplified manner
· Qualified accountant or equivalent
· Influencing skills