: The role of Senior Finance Business Partner for Food & Nutrition UK & Ireland (UK&I) will partner the UK&I General Manager (GM) to lead our UK&I Market Unit. This is the largest of our four European Market Unit and plays a leading role in our Growth and Value Creation ambition. As the Senior Finance Business Partner this role will provide leadership and decision support to the Market Unit GM and their team in pursuit of delivering against our business and financial objectives. This will include a focus on Net Sales (NSV) delivery, driving value creation by ensuring a strong focus on Gross Margin (MAC) and the key levers of value creation - price, promotion and product mix. What will be your key responsibilities?

Act as Finance Business Partner for the key accounts - supporting the definition of customer strategy to achieve targets set within the Annual and Long-Term business plan s. Support in the preparation of annual client negotiations, price increases, and customer business plans with strong partnerships with Sales, Strategic Revenue Management (SRM), Demand planning and the GM. Partnership with SRM to evaluate the financial impacts of pricing plans and changes in trade terms/conditions to ensure delivery against Gross Margin and Value Creation ambition. Provide critical support to the periodic Market forecasting processes (S&O) through completion of updates during the periodic Sales Reviews (DMR) and actively representing the UK&I Market during the periodic Regional Consolidated Financial Review (RIR) targets. In Partnership with the SRM team, ensure that the trade budgets are managed accurately in the Trade Budget Systems; and that regular reviews are completed to determine the effectiveness of this and opportunities to improve Return on Investment (ROI).

As required, initiate, lead, and manage projects within the UK&I Market Unit which will improve current finance processes and deliver against value creation strategy. What are we looking for?

University Degree or Masters Degree with an Accounting or Finance background or equivalent. Financial Professional certification (as appropriate within local Market). Experience in management reporting & analysis. Knowledge and experience of data visualisation.

What can you expect from Mars?

Work with diverse and talented Associates, all guided by The Five Principles. Join a purpose driven company, where we're striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today. Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University. An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.

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