Key Accountabilities:
Strategy Development and Implementation
- Assist and provide decision support relating to the development and implementation of the overall Marketing & Innovation strategy across regions.
- Challenge and monitor long term pricing strategy
- Support to evaluate, define and prioritize market and customer opportunities in order to increase Company’s competitive position
Business Planning, Forecasting and Reporting
- Partnering with the business to provide insights and regular financial performance and results reporting, underlying business drivers and future outlook to support the Marketing & Innovation and Global Communications Leadership Team in driving strategy implementation and performance management by making stronger and well informed business decisions
- Prepare and review business strategic plans and management information, across all financial metrics; including but not limited to revenues, costs, capital, Economic Profit and workforce planning
- Develop, monitor and review the Marketing & Innovation project costing activities as well as establish controls (time writing, product costing / new products tool, etc.)
- Advise the business from a financial perspective and support the Innovation Centre in preparing business cases for new products
- Support the Marketing & Innovation Leadership Teams and relevant stakeholders on ad hoc financial analysis, reporting and queries, providing advice as subject matter expert and financial advisor
- Drive continuous improvements of processes and procedures to enhance reporting and increase efficiencies and accuracies and consistency across the Company
- Required to take part in ad hoc and special projects, often leading and driving business driven projects
Performance Management
- Drive performance management process including target setting within Marketing & Innovation and Global Communications.
- Alignment of KPI cascading across the organization through teamwork with Regions,
- Marketing & Innovation, Global Communications, Business Optimization and Centre of Excellence and other decision support teams (e.g. Strategy, HR, Corporate Support, Site Controlling)
- Regular review and analysis of performance and proactive corrective action proposals
About You:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Economics, Finance and/or Management Accounting
- MBA or post-graduate qualifications in Marketing will be an advantage
- A minimum of 12 years or more relevant experience
- Excellent in collecting, analysing, presenting data and financial skills
- Excellent communication skills; fluent in English, both spoken and written.
- Experience from the chemicals / petrochemicals industry is preferred by not a requirement
- CMA qualification or equivalent preferred
