Director Commercial & Product Finance

At On, Finance plays a vital role in shaping strategy, enabling innovation, and fueling sustainable growth. As Director – Commercial & Product Finance, you will act as a senior strategic partner and co-pilot to the Chief Product Officer and Chief Commercial Officer, helping them navigate complex, fast-evolving business decisions with financial clarity and conviction. Beyond guiding strategic priorities, the role will also be about anchoring them financially - translating ambition into tangible value through rigorous financial thinking and multi-dimensional modeling, ensuring that key initiatives are not only visionary but also financially sound.You will provide the analytical and financial backbone across the product lifecycle – from early innovation to commercial execution – empowering leadership with insights to optimize margin, allocate resources, and scale into new markets and categories. In addition, you will be responsible for maintaining tight control over the respective budgets and commercial contracts within the product and commercial domains, ensuring financial discipline and accountability throughout.Leading a focused team and reporting to the Deputy CFO, you will build the financial structure to support profitable growth, shape planning and reporting tools, and strengthen the connection between product, commercial, and finance strategies. You will play an influential role within the broader Finance leadership team and work closely with the Group CFO.

Your Mission

• Act as thought partner and financial co-pilot to the CPO and CCO, bringing clarity and structure to complex decisions through data-driven insights.
• Drive margin ownership and cost transparency across the full product lifecycle, enabling smarter pricing, investment, and portfolio choices.
• Lead the financial framing of line planning, margin targets, and assortment strategies to support category and market expansion.
• Track and communicate lifecycle and performance KPIs, identifying risks, opportunities, and action levers across drops and product investments.
• Own and align the product-side LRP and business cases, supporting innovation, trade terms, and account P&L strategy. You will also be a key contributor to the Commercial LRP, working in close alignment with channel and regional teams to ensure a cohesive and financially grounded long-range plan.
• Build scalable reporting infrastructure, maintain clean data standards, and provide the analytical tools needed to run product and commercial finance at scale.
• Ensure tight cross-functional collaboration with FP&A, Controlling, IBP, and regional teams to link product insights to overall commercial performance.

Your story

• 10+ years of experience in strategic or commercial finance, preferably in consumer goods, tech, or a high-growth environment.
• Proven ability to act as a senior strategic business partner to C-level leaders, especially in product and commercial contexts.
• Strong understanding of margin structures, pricing dynamics, lifecycle economics, and investment decision-making.
• Experienced in navigating complexity, ambiguity, and trade-offs with a proactive, forward-thinking mindset.
• Skilled in building and interpreting complex models, while connecting numbers to strategic narratives.
• Fluent in financial systems and tools (e.g. SAP, Anaplan, Google Sheets), with a passion for analytics and scalability.
• Collaborative leader with high emotional intelligence and the ability to influence across functions and levels.

About the Team

You will work alongside the Deputy CFO and the broader Finance leadership team, shaping the way Finance enables growth, innovation, and operational focus. You will also serve as a trusted counterpart to Product and Commercial leaders – ensuring Finance is a forward-looking, high-impact business partner across On’s journey to reimagine movement for the world.

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Head of Group Planning & Analytics Controlling

I’m challenged every day with new learnings, new perspectives and new technologies. I can feel that my horizon expands as our business grows. I’m on this exciting journey of never-ending personal development, which is crucial to me.

What we offer

On is a place that is centered around growth and progress. We offer an environment designed to give people the tools to develop holistically – to stay active, to learn, explore and innovate. Our distinctive approach combines a supportive, team-oriented atmosphere, with access to personal self-care for both physical and mental well-being, so each person is led by purpose.

On is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that is fair and inclusive, where all decisions related to recruitment, advancement, and retention are free of discrimination.

We want to set everyone up for success, so here’s the lowdown on how we hire. Our process is a two-way street – bringing you into our culture, while helping us learn how you think.

Our full process can last about eight weeks from application to offer, because we care about getting it right. These steps explain how we usually do things.

Before you get started, feel free to consider if you want to work with us. Strange question? Well, we give people a lot of space to navigate their day-to-day and that style isn't for everyone. We want you to be passionate about what you do and be sure this is the right fit. Because when skills and passion combine – it creates that 'Wow' moment.

Step One:

It starts with you...

You'll start by submitting your application to a specific role.

We try to keep this step as simple as possible. We do get a lot of applications, but we review them all. We ask that you allow around 14 days for us to come back to you with a response. If you are a good fit to the role, someone will follow up with you within that window. If you didn't receive a reply, or were unsuccessful this time around, we encourage you to look for other possible matches at On.