Finance Sr. Business Partner Petcare Italy

Finance Sr. Business Partner Petcare Italy

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About Mars, Incorporated

Mars is a family-owned business with more than a century of history making diverse products and offering services for people and the pets people love. With almost $45 billion in sales, the company is a global business that produces some of the world’s best-loved brands: M&M’s®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, MILKY WAY®, DOVE®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, WHISKAS®, EXTRA®, ORBIT®, 5™, SKITTLES®, BEN’S ORIGINAL® and MARS DRINKS and COCOAVIA®. Mars also provides veterinary health services that include BANFIELD® Pet Hospitals, Blue Pearl®, VCA® and Pet Partners™. Headquartered in McLean, VA, Mars operates in more than 80 countries. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire its more than 100,000 Associates to create value for all its partners and deliver growth they are proud of every day.

ITALY PETCARE FINANCE Sr. BUSINESS PARTNER

Job Purpose/Overview

In our ambition to deliver sustainable growth, gain share and creating value, this position will play a critical role for the Italian market in providing financial leadership and decision support for the overall business and respective customer/channel group in line with our business strategies. Along with creating insights on finance performance, the position needs to ensure achievement of units financial KPIs with special attention to revenue part. The role is co-creating business plans, challenging/reviewing assumptions, spotting opportunities & risks and ensure sustainable value creation. This position ensures that customers and internal clients are respecting the policies and terms of sale established by the various business units and that trade fund investments are utilized as effectively as possible through the reduction of non-working spends.

This Senior Market BP role will be expected to A: act as a catalyst for change by changing perspective, bringing the outside in and framing the issue; B: being a strategic investor by providing holistic and innovative insights, displaying forward looking and long-term analyses, anchoring an ROI mindset in the organization; C: be the key point of contact for One Demand and Sales teams for the Petcare category; D: be modern to the times by empowering users with digital tools, working cross functions, and visualizing data & story telling in an engaging way.

This role is one of the feeder roles to the Cluster Finance Director position.

Key Responsibilities

• Finance business partner for respective customer group/channel – as such supporting the definition of customer strategy and achieving targets set within operational plan/3 yrs value creation plan.
• Partner with regional Customer/Channel teams and Centers of Excellence in the process of strategies and plans definition
• Member of the Customer/Channel Management Team, accountable with the Customer/Channel Business Director for the delivery, ownership and execution of the Operating Plan
• Develop strategic partnership with the Customer Business Director through spending time in the market to understand the competitive landscape, uncover opportunities for growth, further understand the customer and strengthen the relationship with the Customer team
• Support in the preparation of annual trade negotiations and customer business plans for respective customer group/channel in coordination with regional Customer teams
• Influence sales and customers to recommend process improvements for the mutual benefit of all parties and to allow for the best use of trade funds
• Support in ad-hoc activities and customer individual offers via financial evaluation and recommendations for respective customer group/channel
• Ensure, that the trade budget of the respective customer group/channel is managed accurately and at appropriate level of detail in the Trade Budget Systems; work in conjunction with sales to review trade fund use and effectiveness; identify opportunities to maximize ROI and eliminate non-working investments
• Establish strong partnership with SRM Head and local organization to support creation and rollout of winning pricing, promo, mix and trade investment strategies - in service of the business unit’s value creation and share gains delivery. Evaluation of financial impacts of SRM strategies
• Partner with local One Demand (Sales, Market Strategy, Supply Chain) teams to effectively create business unit P&L forecast. Identify key opportunities and risks to delivery of targets with recommended remedies
• Ensure adherence to all corporate policies and guidelines pertaining to the Trade budget
• Drive digital tools/reporting and a value creation mindset within the local Sales/channel organization
• Establish and maintain effective collaboration with regional FP&A team and other shared service and Center of Excellence teams

Job Specifications / Qualifications

• Higher education (Master’s degree in Economy, Finance, Business Administration)
• Minimum 7 years experience in other Finance roles
• Significant experience in FMCG multinational environments
• Significant experiences abroad from own country are a plus
• Language skills: English proficiency

Based in Italy (Milan)

Employment Type

Permanent Contract - Full time

Mars is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need assistance or an accommodation during the application process because of a disability, it is available upon request. The company is pleased to provide such assistance, and no applicant will be penalized as a result of such a request.

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