Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure and people? Then this is the place for you.
As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.
To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact
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Why join our team?
pladis was established in June 2016 and brings together the much loved, global brands of Godiva, McVitie’s, Ulker, and DeMet’s under one pladis umbrella, to form a global giant in biscuits, chocolate, and confectionary. The UK & I pladis region employs 5,000 people across 13 locations in the UK & return on investment (nine manufacturing / distribution sites and four office locations), and is an anchor market for the business.
What will this role achieve?
The Commercial Finance Transformation Manager is accountable for identifying, prioritising and delivering transformation initiatives across the Commercial Finance team. The role owns improvements to ways of working, processes, governance and capability, ensuring the function operates efficiently, consistently and at pace, while enabling Commercial Finance to focus on higher‑value business partnering and decision support.
What will be your key deliverables?
Act as the Commercial Finance owner for transformation, with accountability for shaping, prioritising and delivering change initiatives that improve how the Commercial Finance team operates, partners the business and creates value.
Own the end‑to‑end Commercial Finance transformation agenda, providing a single, joined‑up view of all change initiatives across the team and ensuring alignment to strategic priorities, AOP objectives and leadership expectations.
Lead the design and implementation of improved ways of working across Commercial Finance, driving simplification, consistency, clarity of ownership and the removal of low‑value activity
Take ownership of process, governance and operating model improvements, ensuring Commercial Finance processes are fit for purpose, scalable and enable higher‑value insight and decision support.
Act as the central point of coordination for cross‑functional change, working closely with FP&A, Customer Finance, Finance Systems, Data & Analytics and commercial teams to deliver integrated, end‑to‑end improvements.
Establish and maintain clear transformation governance, ensuring initiatives are well‑defined, progress is transparent, dependencies are actively managed and benefits are tracked and realised.
Drive a strong focus on real, embedded outcomes, ensuring transformation initiatives deliver measurable improvements in efficiency, control, insight quality or capacity release rather than one‑off fixes.
Support Commercial Finance leadership by providing structure, pace and challenge across the change agenda, enabling informed trade‑offs and prioritisation where capacity is constrained.
Champion a culture of continuous improvement and change ownership within Commercial Finance, embedding capability, tools and behaviours that encourage teams to challenge how work is done and propose better solutions.
Act as a trusted partner to the Commercial Finance leadership team, shaping the longer‑term evolution of the function to meet the needs of the business as it grows and changes.
What do you need for this role?
Proven experience in FMCG in Customer/ Commercial Finance
A passion for business performance management & analytics
A strong collaborator and communicator
Ability to influence and work collaboratively across the organisation
Ability to work optimally in an ambiguous and changing role and able to drive agenda forward
Self-confidence and skill to challenge the Customer team
Strong financial and commercial competence built over a 5-year minimum career
Advanced MS Excel, PPT and the ability to turn raw data into powerful insights
A qualified accountant (ACCA/ACA/CIMA)
OUR WINNING TRAITS AND BEHAVIOURS
Purpose-Led - Energised by our promise to deliver happiness to the world with every bite
Agile - Ever evolving, never satisfied and never standing still
Collaborative - Willing to work with others for mutual success.
Resilient - Quick to adapt to change, fast learner and persistent in the face of setbacks
Positive - Self-motivated, optimistic, adventurous, and inspiring
Diversity and inclusion is central to everything we do and is reflected across our business. pladis brings together brands and people from around the world – and this diversity is our great strength.
We’re an equal opportunities employer and believe in encouraging an inclusive environment where we celebrate diversity of thinking and respect everyone’s distinctive qualities and perspectives.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform key job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. Please contact us to request accommodation
pladis is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.
We operate a strict Preferred Supplier List. If you are a recruitment agency and wish to submit candidate to be considered for this vacancy, you must have agreed to, and signed, our terms of business.
We will not accept CVs from any other sources other than those currently on our PSL. We will not pay a fee for any candidate that has not been represented by a provider on our PSL.
Skills Required
- Proven experience in FMCG in Customer/ Commercial Finance
- A qualified accountant (ACCA/ACA/CIMA)
- Strong financial and commercial competence built over a 5-year minimum career
- Advanced MS Excel, PPT and ability to turn raw data into powerful insights.
- Ability to influence and work collaboratively across the organisation
- Self-confidence and skill to challenge the Customer team
What We Do
pladis is one of the world’s fastest growing snacking companies and home to much loved brands including McVitie’s, GODIVA and Ülker. pladis also owns regional brands Jacob’s, Go Ahead, Flipz, Turtles, BN, Verkade and many more products across sweet and savoury biscuits, wafer, cake, and chocolate. pladis also owns regional brands such as Jacob’s, Go Ahead, Flipz, BN, Verkade and many more, delighting consumers with products across the snacking category including sweet and savoury biscuits, wafer, cake, chocolate, gum and candy. Formed in 2016, pladis is the proud steward of over 300 years of family baking and confectionery experience. The expertise of its 16,000-strong global workforce spans 25 factories in 11 countries, and is founded on collaboration, agility and resilience. As a responsible business, delivering the highest quality products and exceptional service, pladis’ products have the potential to reach more than four billion people across the world. pladis people are passionate about collaboration and creation, using consumer insights and trends to fulfil its promise of bringing happiness with every bite. This passion, combined with rapid speed to market, enables the company to bring its products from idea to on-shelf quickly, so they are available for consumers all over the world. To view our privacy policy visit: http://www.pladiscareers.co.uk/privacy-policy/
