Finance Partner (Fixed Term) - Grow Category P&L (Hybrid)

Danone; Chiswick; Hybrid; GBP 75,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Bonus

Competitive benefits

Job summary

Danone in Chiswick is looking for a senior Category/Finance Manager to steer strategy and robust P&L across growth channels. You will partner with the Category Director, build full category P&Ls including A&P, and guide investment decisions to optimise margin and ROI.

You will lead forecasts, financial planning, and business cases with a data-driven storytelling approach to influence senior stakeholders. This role is hybrid with 2–3 days in the office and offers a competitive benefits package.

Qualifications

• Commercial & financial acumen with ability to analyse P&Ls and margins.
• Strategic thinking to connect financial insights with business priorities.
• Strong business partnering and influencing skills with stakeholders.
• Analytical problem solving to translate data into actions.
• Experience leading forecasts and financial plans with risk management.
• Evaluating ROI of marketing and innovation investments.
• Developing robust financial business cases for strategic initiatives.
• Clear communication and storytelling to enable informed decisions.

Responsibilities

• Drive category performance through ad hoc analysis and recommendations.
• Act as specialist SPOC for the Baby category, partnering the Category Director.
• Build and animate full category P&Ls including A&P and margins.
• Challenge A&P spend allocation and performance with accountability for trade spend.
• Lead the GPS forecast process for the category and align with teams.
• Collaborate with customer & channel teams on customer movements.
• Develop Innovation business cases with governance through the Innovation Controller.
• Assess A&P investment effectiveness, ROI and impact on margin.
• Create financials around annual strategic plans with category teams.

Skills

Commercial & Financial Acumen

Strategic Thinking

Business Partnering & Influencing

Analytical Problem Solving

Forecasting & Planning

Investment & ROI Management

Business Case Development

Communication & Storytelling

Job description

Danone in Chiswick is looking for a senior Category/Finance Manager to steer strategy and robust P&L across growth channels. You will partner with the Category Director, build full category P&Ls including A&P, and guide investment decisions to optimise margin and ROI.

You will lead forecasts, financial planning, and business cases with a data-driven storytelling approach to influence senior stakeholders. This role is hybrid with 2–3 days in the office and offers a competitive benefits package.