Location
Brasilien | Germany
Job description
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.
Effectively collaborate with local business units, providing financial insights, ensuring alignment with the overall corporate strategy while being accountable for optimizing financial performance and facilitating decision-making within the organization.
Your Role
• Responsible for and release of all personnel, material, and financial budgets within the area of responsibility.
• Ensure compliance with the released budgets within the area of responsibility. Initiate appropriate measures in case of impending and identified deviations in coordination with the interfaces.
• Continuously standardizing and optimizing processes and organizational structures and initiating corresponding measures.
• Define, implement, and ensure optimal information exchange in the area of responsibility and with the interfaces.
• Defining, implementing, and ensuring efficient and effective processes in the company's internal IT systems and their documentation.
• Driving forward the digital transformation in the area of responsibility. Develop an integrated digitization strategy in cooperation with the interfaces. Leveraging new technologies and functionalities to sustainably increase value contribution. Ensure optimization and mapping of new and existing business processes in the digital databases and systems.
• Defining and ensuring reports for the specialist divisions and management, as well as further developing the reporting architecture (adapting the data model) and processes in accordance with Group-wide standards.
• Defining and proposing control KPIs (recognizing trends, planned/current deviations etc.), as well as deriving possible optimization measures and examining their success.
• Building and developing a qualified and motivated team. Technical and disciplinary leadership, assessment, and development of directly subordinate employees. Decide on individual personnel measures in coordination with HR.
• Supporting and assisting in the annual planning of the defined functional area.
• Defining and implementing the subdivision strategy.
• Establishing and further developing calculation and control systems.
• Support and execution of pricing trainings (general; tools & processes) and pricing Workshops
• Operative product pricing: definition of value argumentation and support in price negotiations offer & contract Management.
• Ensuring Pricing lead on strategic tenders & customer projects and margin optimization projects
• Evaluate market, customer, competitor, and raw material developments and derive appropriate measures.
Your Profile
• Financial Analysis: Conduct financial analysis, performance evaluations, and profitability assessments for commercial activities and group-wide operations.
• Budgeting and Forecasting: Oversee the budgeting process, including the development of annual budgets and long-term financial forecasts, and ensure they align with corporate objectives.
• Strategic Planning: Collaborate with business units to develop and implement strategic plans that support revenue growth, cost optimization, and profitability targets.
• Business Partnering: Act as a financial advisor and partner to commercial teams, providing insights, guidance, and financial support for decision-making.
• Cost Management: Identify cost-saving opportunities, analyze cost structures, and implement strategies to improve cost efficiency while maintaining quality.
• Risk Management: Assess financial risks associated with commercial activities and develop strategies to mitigate them, ensuring financial stability.
• Capital Allocation: Evaluate investment opportunities and allocate capital effectively to maximize returns and align with strategic priorities.
• Performance Metrics: Define and monitor KPIs related to commercial activities, ensuring alignment with business goals and objectives.
• Financial Modeling: Create financial models to assess the impact of different scenarios and support decision-making processes.
• Pricing: Conducting price, cost and results analyses and market, customer and competition developments and deriving necessary measures. Developing lines of argumentation to support sales. Generation and maintenance of plan-prices for strategic raw materials in area of responsibility. Support in position management for strategic raw materials in area of responsibility.
Position Requirements
• Proficient in English (C1 – upper advanced above)
• Leadership skills and experience in managing teams.
• 5-8+ years working in a Commercial Controlling (70%) and Pricing Position (30%)
• 3+ years’ experience in managing direct reports/subordinates with proven Leadership and Communication capabilities.
• Bachelor’s degree in business administration, Finance or related.
• Knowledge in SAP.
• Strong influence ad relationship with other areas.
• Proficient in all Microsoft Office applications.
Preferred Qualifications
• 5+ years’ experience working for production/manufacturing company.
• 5+ years’ experience working in multinational companies, with external experiences (short/long term assignments)
Equal Opportunities for All!
All candidates are welcome, regardless of age, ancestry, disability, ethnic origin, gender, nationality, religion, sexual orientation, social background, or any other characteristic.
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