Senior Director - Strategy and Finance - Global Gum and Candy - Mondelez International - Parsippany

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Role Description

This role is the strategy and finance business partner for the Global Gum and Candy Category and responsible to provide input to and drive the development, definition and delivery of the global strategy.
This role is also responsible to develop and maintain regular financial performance reporting for the category overall and - together with the team - ensure the on-going management of the budget for the Global Category team
This role is responsible to lead the Strategy and Finance function of the Global Category Team, which includes the people management responsibility.

· Ensure that all commercial propositions and strategies driven by the category are rooted in a strong fact base, financially material consumer insights, competitor intelligence, meet our value creation criteria, is aligned with, and is clearly-linked to and consistent with other Category strategic priorities and activity:
1. Ensuring strategy development standards and processes are met.
2. Ensuring and facilitating access to all relevant information required for developing and monitoring the delivery of the strategy
3. Ensuring the category ambitions and plans are linked to, and support the delivery of, the Category’s overall strategic goals.

· Driving development of material required for Global Category Team dialogues on strategy – including preparation of material to review priorities, issues or overall strategy

· Work as a key member of the category leadership team to develop, define and deliver a global strategy for the category
· Provide strategy- & finance-specific support, leadership or oversight (as required) for strategic initiatives such as local market entry, financial modelling and evaluation, business model definition and strategic fact base development
· Develop and maintain regular financial performance reporting for the category overall and on-going management of the budget for the Global Category team, including:
· Understanding actual and forecast performance of the category overall across regions, markets and brands

· Work as a key member of the category leadership team to develop, define and deliver a global strategy for the category
· Owning the development and management of the budget for the Global Category, including people costs, project spend, travel etc. and ensuring delivery to contract and inputs to the annual contract for Global Commercial overall
· Know the ethical and legal compliance responsibilities of the position; lead ethically and model compliant behavior; maintain an environment where employees can speak up without fear of retaliation; ensure employees in area of responsibility understand the compliance responsibilities of their jobs and actively participate in the compliance program.


Desired Skills and Experience

Qualifications:
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Minimum of eight years of experience of management experience in Finance or Strategy within an FMCG company or providing consulting solutions to FMCG companies.
Commercial understanding gained through experience in commercial or supply chain areas
Deep strategic knowledge and experience
Breadth of financial knowledge and experience

Education
Bachelor Degree in Finance or Quantitative Marketing Required
MBA is preferred.

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