(Senior) Manager Commercial Controlling (m/f/d)

DöhlerGroup; Darmstadt; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

DöhlerGroup, a leading global producer of natural ingredients and solutions for the food, beverage, lifestyle and nutrition industries, is seeking a BU Controller to partner with management and steer performance across units. You will drive portfolio strategies while ensuring transparency in complex business relationships and acting as a strategic sparring partner.

You bring deep financial insight, markets knowledge, and a proactive mindset to shape our products, margins, and financial steering.

Qualifications

• Degree in Business Administration, Business Informatics, Industrial Engineering, or a comparable field.
• Several years of professional experience as a business partner or sparring partner in controlling, product costing, strategic business development, or pricing.
• Alternatively, strong experience in a commercial role, such as product management, with financial and portfolio responsibility.
• Ideally, solid knowledge of and experience in the B2B food industry.
• Strong analytical skills and the ability to translate complex data into clear decision-making support.
• A mindset that numbers are the basis for concrete recommendations and actions.
• Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management experience.
• Collaborative team player with ownership and drive to move topics forward independently.
• Very good knowledge of MS Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint, as well as SAP BW and S/4HANA.
• Very good German and English skills.

Responsibilities

• Act as a business partner and sparring partner for our Business Units.
• Provide input, challenge ideas constructively, and contribute to performance and direction.
• Develop and implement modern KPI systems to enhance the integrated steering framework.
• Analyze strategic and operational objectives and derive sound recommendations.
• Prepare reports and management presentations and interpret figures for decision-making.
• Support the optimization, digitalization, and integration of reporting and processes.
• Independently prepare ad hoc analyses for business partners and management.
• Contribute to portfolio steering and shape commercial development of product and business strategy.

Skills

Business partnering

Analytical skills

Stakeholder management

MS Office (Excel/PowerPoint)

SAP BW

S/4HANA

English proficiency

German proficiency

Strategic thinking

Portfolio management

Education

Business Administration

Business Informatics

Industrial Engineering

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

SAP BW

S/4HANA

Job description

Reference ID: 43182

Are you interested in high-quality, natural, and tasty nutrition?

We are! It's our ambition to shape the future of nutrition.

Döhler is a leading global producer of natural ingredients and solutions for the food, beverage, lifestyle and nutrition industries. We use innovative technology to process plant-based raw materials and enrich products such as lifestyle drinks, cereals, dairy, and confectionery goods for almost every well-known brand. Close to 10.000 dedicated employees in more than 70 countries share one common goal - to ensure that millions of people around the world enjoy the products created by us.

We strive to inspire and empower our employees in everything we do, and we invite you to join our team - together WE BRING IDEAS TO LIFE.

Your role

As a Business Unit (BU) Controller at Döhler, you are much more than a numbers expert — you are a strategic sparring partner to our Business Units and play an active role in shaping the future development of our company. Working closely with management, you drive performance, portfolio, and profitability while bringing transparency to complex business relationships. What matters most to us: we are not only looking for traditional controllers. We also explicitly welcome candidates with a strong commercial background, particularly in product management. If you have a deep understanding of markets, products, margin structures, and portfolio strategies, and would like to apply your analytical capabilities even more strongly in a financial steering role, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Your Responsibilities

• Act as a business partner and sparring partner for our Business Units
• Provide input, challenge ideas constructively, and actively contribute to operational performance and strategic direction
• Develop and implement modern KPI systems to continuously enhance our integrated steering framework together with the team
• Analyze the strategic and operational objectives of the functions within your scope of responsibility and derive sound recommendations for action
• Prepare reports and management presentations tailored to the target audience, interpret figures in their business context, and provide a solid basis for decision-making
• Support the optimization, digitalization, and integration of reporting and business processes
• Independently prepare ad hoc analyses for business partners and management
• Contribute actively to portfolio steering and help shape the commercial development of our product and business strategy

Your profile

• Degree in Business Administration, Business Informatics, Industrial Engineering, or a comparable field, ideally with a focus on Controlling, Product Management, or Strategic Management
• Several years of professional experience as a business partner or sparring partner in controlling, product costing, strategic business development, or pricing
• Alternatively, strong experience in a commercial role, such as product management, with a clear focus on financial and portfolio responsibility
• Ideally, solid knowledge of and experience in the B2B food industry
• Strong analytical skills combined with the ability to translate complex data and relationships into clear, strategically relevant decision-making support
• A mindset that sees numbers not as an end in themselves, but as the basis for concrete recommendations and actions
• Solution-oriented, precise, and entrepreneurial way of thinking
• Strong communication skills at management level and experience in professional stakeholder management
• A collaborative team player with a high level of ownership and the drive to move topics forward independently
• Very good knowledge of MS Office, especially Excel and PowerPoint, as well as SAP BW and S/4HANA
• Strong interest in working with new technologies, challenging existing processes, and actively driving digitalization in finance and reporting
• Very good German and English skills

As an employer, we offer

• Work with passion: We foster a culture where you can act with heart and mind, take pride in your work and inspire others through positivity and commitment.
• Lead with purpose at every level: For us, leadership is not defined by titles. It is about taking ownership, driving change and bring-ing meaning to what you do.
• Grow your way: With flexible development opportunites across departments and a global team, you can broaden your skills, discover new strenghts and actively shape your own path.
• Global collaboration: Join an international team bringing together multiple cultures, languages and perspectives to spark new ideas and inspiration.
• Shared strength: We build real connections and grow together. By sharing knowledge and valuing each other’s strengths, we create a culture where trust and team play lead to shared success.

Equal opportunities for all

We welcome applicants, who are just as diverse as we are - regardless of age, ancestry, disability, ethnic origin, gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, social background or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.