Robert Half are really excited and proud to be working in partnership with BakeAway on a retained and exclusive basis to recruit for a Commercial Finance Business Partner to provide commercial finance support for the sales, marketing and R&D teams for decision making by providing high quality insight across all customers, channels and product groups. Driving the commercial strategy to achieve business revenue and profit targets

BakeAway is a UK Manufacturer of Pastry and Dough which boasts some amazing partnerships and brands in Jus-Rol, Pizza express, ASDA, M&S, Tesco, Sainsburys, Coop and many more.

Originally a family-run business, BakeAway has now reached new strengths. Located in Northamptonshire very accessible for their customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders alike. Source most ingredients from the UK and are proud to be investing and supporting UK food manufacturing.

Based in Corby, this excellent role is paying between £55,000 and £65,000 base with Hybrid working opportunities once a through induction has been complete.

Job Purpose: To provide commercial finance support for the sales, marketing and R&D teams for decision making by providing high quality insight across all customers, channels and product groups. Driving the commercial strategy to achieve business revenue and profit targets.

Primary Purpose of this Position:

• Responsible for all sales accounts in the TB from gross sales to net sales
• Sales budgeting and forecasting
• Accurate and on time month end sales closing, reporting and commentary
• Customer tenders
• Supporting the creation of promotional and marketing plans, providing analysis and evaluation of outcomes
• Costing, pricing and margin analysis of new products and supporting back-office finance set up for launches
• Driving true understanding of profitability by customer
• Price and margin optimisation analysis
• Generating commercial risks and opportunities with actions to mitigate and optimise

Qualifications/Requirements

• Track record of building relationships with stakeholders
• Providing business partnering to aid decision making
• Ability to pull together clear insight from complex analysis in a commercial environment
• FMCG retail experience preferable
• UK retailer experience preferable
• Commercial acumen
• Qualified or part qualified accountant
• Preferably CIMA

Salary and benefits on offer

• £55,000 to £65,000 base salary
• Pension up to 5% employer contribution
• 33 days annual leave including bank holiday
• Life assurance 4x base salary

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