Commercial Finance Business Partner - Trade Marketing

This role acts as co-pilot and sparring partner to the Heads of On/Off Premise Marketing, creating long-term value by bringing financial and commercial visibility and control alongside proactive decision making. It supports both short-term business execution and long-term strategic goals, uniting the business with insight and trust. The position prepares the business to be future fit and operates as an inclusively challenging business partner.

• Co-build the long-term, annual, and monthly forecast with the On and Off Premise Heads of Trade Marketing and their teams, managing MEC to keep in-year marketing campaign and initiative spend within budget
• Accurately forecast and explain monthly budget revisions that support volume and share expectations, and enable long-term decision making using financial outlooks, legislative change forecasts, and efficiency project expectations.
• Support strategic optimisation and efficiency-focused projects with both Heads of On/Off Premise Marketing to get more from budgets and support delivery of strategic goals, including reducing non-working spend (e.g. logistics, print costs, scrappage) to reinvest into working spend
• Optimising NPD launches with a POS playbook based on performance insights, improving festivals budget effectiveness and commercialisation, and assessing chiller and POS uplift against branding opportunities.
• Increase the effectiveness of every £1 invested by bringing consistent visibility and insight of budget performance, cost driver assumptions, and opportunities to do more with the same investment
• And by identifying budget and forecast risks and opportunities with solutions that protect the delivery of financial targets.
• Create return on investment and cost/benefit analysis insights that enable start, stop, or continue decisions to improve long-term performance, including pre- and post-evaluations on marketing campaigns and POS toolkit playbooks
• VISIT asset utilisation evaluation with warehousing efficiency analysis, and regional and business unit (e.g. Musketeers) investment analysis.
• Influence ongoing executional performance by measuring and communicating input KPI metrics to secure output performance, bringing visibility of existing commercial performance input KPIs such as spend per region, per customer, per print/online, and per NPD launch
• And working versus non-working spend including logistics and chillers per channel, and expanding visibility to not yet measured KPIs to unlock commercial and financial gains.
• Act as an inclusively challenging business partner that unites the business with insight and trust and prepares it to be future fit
• Enabling better decisions to be made faster by ensuring the right stakeholders have the right information in the right format at the right moment and influencing best-in-class processes and tools.
• Assess and influence what can be possible with future fit master data and systems setups as catalysts for intelligent insight and proactively disruptive decision making.
• Create intelligent insights that proactively disrupt decision making by revolutionising a reporting suite that brings to life commercial performance execution, including regional, customer, and sub-channel marketing investment and non-working inefficiencies.
• Reduce wastage with automation and ruthlessly simplify complexity within the business environment to empower Business Partners' execution, entrepreneurialism, and accountability.
• Embed compliance as a business-as-usual mindset, make compliance simple for business partners and daily rather than cyclical, support the Financial Accounting Team with year-end cut off, deliver full compliance with Group Controlling guidelines and Audit requirements
• And ensure Red Bull systems reconcile.

• Proven experience in finance business partnering.
• Qualified or Part Qualified finance professional (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent).
• Fluent written and spoken English.
• Inquisitive self-starter with endless proactivity and a desire to improve the status quo, well organised, self-motivated, and a team player.
• Highly analytical with excellent attention to detail and able to quickly identify and assess risks, their impacts, and define alternatives.
• Good experience of, and extremely comfortable in, an incredibly fast-paced environment.
• Excellent at influencing outcomes, self-directed, and able to manage own workload.
• Numerate, process orientated, and personable, able to build strong stakeholder relationships through data-based insights and impactful communication.
• IT literate with excellent knowledge of MS Excel, SAP BI, and Hyperion.

• Experience in consumer goods.