Global Category Finance Manager – Balanced Choices

Confidencial; São Paulo; Híbrido; BRL 400.000 - 650.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Confidencial’s Global Category Finance Manager – Balanced Choices in São Paulo, hybrid work model, leads finance partnership across brands and growth pillars to deliver value and growth.

You will own 1YP/5/10YP financial plans, partner with marketing, supply, innovation, and global teams, and translate market and consumer data into actionable business insights.

Fluent English required; Portuguese or Spanish a strong asset; remote international travel ~30% and cross-country collaboration expected.

Formación

• FMCG/CPG Financial Business partnering and strategic planning.
• Minimum 8 years’ experience in roles of increasing seniority with similar responsibility and accountability.
• Senior leadership experience, including 3+ years working with global brands.
• Fluent English. Fluency in Portuguese or Spanish a strong asset.
• Remote position (EST/CT time zone) with availability for international travel (30%).

Responsabilidades

• Drive current brand/category performance processes to unlock deep insights into performance.
• Translate complex market, consumer, commercial, and financial data into clear recommendations and actionable business decisions.
• Build annual plans (1YP) and 5–10Y plans with P&L development and forecasting expertise.
• S&M investment strategy and prioritization; contractor management with third party partners.
• Manage 1 direct report.

Conocimientos

Financial leadership

Brand finance

Strategic planning

Stakeholder management

Descripción del empleo

Global Category Finance Manager – Balanced Choices

Published on AUGUST 28, 2026

Applications open until OCTOBER 27, 2026

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Workplace: São Paulo - SP São Paulo - SP

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Work model: Hybrid Hybrid

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Category Finance

The team’s defined purpose is to “partner on performance and creating value across our

brands and growth pillars – today and tomorrow” by supporting our mission to Lead &

Grow the category, and deliver incremental growth in business performance.

This is achieved through:

• Being invaluable finance business partners to our brands and category leaders
• Owning the financial components of 1YP/10YP development for the category, in

partnership with FP&A and Growth Group

• Partnering with Supply/Innovation on key 3YP initiatives
• Challenging and supporting long-term strategic planning (5/10YP)
• Connecting the organization around brand performance and growth drivers

Purpose

This role will act as a strategic business partner, connecting brand strategy, market

dynamics and opportunities, consumer and sales data, and financial performance to

identify and drive growth opportunities and translate them into clear business decisions.

The Global Category Finance Manager participates in category and brand oriented

initiatives through the organization – requiring collaboration with Global Marketing,

Innovation, Supply, Commercial Zone teams, and other functional groups within AB In-

Bev who play active roles in shaping brand performance

• Partner with brand teams to craft plans for delivering key outcomes in both

areas of current category/brand performance and future strategic development

• Provide decision support, analytics, and scenario modeling for evaluating

opportunities and options in service of marketing mission to “deliver a step

change in effectives of growth drivers”

• The role reports to the Global Director, Balanced Choices

Complexity

This is a highly visible, hands-on role requiring ownership, speed, strong judgment, and

the ability to influence and mobilize teams across multiple countries and functions.

• Central to this role is the ability to build and sustain strong working relationships

throughout the organization – including the ability to influence and build

alignment across functions and levels/bands

• The need for high quality strategic thinking and attention to detail is heightened

through the requirement to work alongside senior leadership

• The ability to build and promote strategic plans through the organization benefits

from experience in undertaking strategic analysis and/or commercial experience

of deploying strategies in a leadership role within a business unit

Responsibilities and assignments

• Drive current brand/category performance processes to unlock deep insights into

performance

• Take learnings from ABI tools/routines and external analysis to action
• Maintaining brand/category strategies within an overall AB In-Bev portfolio
• Embed strategic thinking and a long term vision creation to improve decision

making on short-term investments

Translating complex market, consumer, commercial, and financial data into clear

recommendations and actionable business decisions.

• Build annual plans (1YP) within established business processes
• Build 5-10Y plans, with P&L development and forecasting expertise
• S&M investment strategy and prioritization
• Contractor management with third party partners
• Manage (1) direct report.

Requirements and qualifications

• FMCG/CPG Financial Business partnering and strategic planning
• Minimum 8 years’ experience in roles of increasing seniority with similar

responsibility and accountability

• Senior leadership experience, including *3+ years working with global brands*.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to engage and manage senior stakeholders

across the organization

• Effective communication, presentation, and facilitation skills are essential
• Demonstrated ability in strategic and financial analysis, driving insights to action,

development of models and building presentations

• Ability to manage through ambiguity
• Proven ability to model business growth using financial, commercial, and market

data and to challenge existing business assumptions.

• Strategy and project management skills
• Comfort and demonstrated expertise in operating in a highly matrixed

organization

• Consulting or consumer goods experience preferred
• Passion for the beverage alcohol industry/Non-alcoholic category a plus
• Fluent English. Fluency in Portuguese or Spanish a strong asset.
• Remote position (EST/CT time zone, proximity to Int’l airport) with availability for

international travel (30%) and regular office visits as role necessitates.

Outcomes

The successful candidate will combine the mindset of a Brand Finance leader, business

strategist, and analytics-driven decision maker — someone who understands where the

business is today, identifies where the greatest opportunities are, and builds the

financial and strategic case for how to capture them.

The successful candidate will connect global frameworks and strategic priorities to

Balanced Choices platforms, identifying opportunities across markets and brands.

Additional information

Process stages

• Step 1: Registration 1 Registration
• Step 2: Pre-interview 2 Pre-interview