Commercial Planning & Analysis Manager Sr

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The Sr. Manager Commercial Planning & Analysis leads a team of approximately 4 direct employees that provide reporting, insights and analysis to support commercial growth initiatives and decision making. This is a critical role that requires thought leadership, strong analytical/systems skills, and ability to collaborate with and influence across the organization. A key aspect of the position is partnering with the BU teams to standardize processes and implement best practices across AFNA.

Reporting directly to our Sr. Director of Commercial Finance & Pricing, this position is a key member of the AFNA Commercial Finance team.

Principal Accountabilities

Sales Operations

• Support AFNA monthly/quarterly reporting and analysis
  • Raw material and inflation pass through impacts
  • Volume movements
  • Net sales and EBIT bridge commercial drivers
• Lead GKA and Central Sales & Marketing reporting and planning
  • Monthly forecast and Annual Operating Plan
  • Performance vs Forecast, Plan and Prior Year, including risk/opportunities assessments and development of Outperformance plans
  • Central Sales & Marketing QBR
  • Manage Central Sales & Marketing SG&A cost centers

Account Management and Planning (for GKAs and certain large customers)

• Support Commercial Development's bid submissions / contract renewals with financial modeling and scenario analysis
• Proactively monitor performance against contract terms (growth delivery timing, rebate conditions, etc.)
• Partner with Commercial Development and BU teams to ensure an effective and consistent AFNA deal review framework
• Support capex ROI assessments for growth investments

Insights and Analysis

• Lead by providing clarity for decision making based on unbiased deep dives of complex commercial/financial questions
• Support key initiatives to advance business intelligence, capabilities, processes, insights, etc.
• Partner with other Commercial functions (Pricing, Commercial Insights & Strategy, Commercial Excellence, etc.) and BU teams to introduce new lead / lag indicators that measure and help to drive our profitable growth
• Focus issues for select customers e.g. cost transparency, benchmarking
• Advance and support GKA team with actionable data and analysis

Talent Management / Continuous Improvement

• Partner with functions and BU teams to implement best practices across AFNA
• Assist in the development and tracking of improvement initiatives in the above areas
• Responsible for managing and improving performance, development and engagement of direct employees

Relationships:

Internal

BU and Central Finance (FP&A, Commercial Finance, Operations Finance, Accounting, etc.)

BU Marketing & Sales

Commercial Development

Global Commercial Finance and GKA

Demand Planning

Information Technology and Commercial Systems

Procurement

Central Sales & Marketing team: Commercial Excellence, Marketing Communications, etc.

Sales team: GKAs and certain large customers

AFNA VP of Sales & Marketing

What We Value

• Collaboration and Influencing: Works well with others who do not work for you; works as a team to have a positive impact on business performance; not intimidated to address process/performance gaps in People, Process, and Tools (systems, leadership, and personnel).
• Analytical Orientation: Focused on the improvement of business results through analyzing data.
• Collaborate and Influence, Team Leadership, Change Leadership, Strategic Orientation
• Comfort with ambiguity
• Global interaction and cultural awareness
• Creative thinking and organizational navigation
• Ability to develop and refine processes / systems / tools

What We Value

• Exceptional analytical skills (linking results to drivers)
• Business partnership experience
• Ability to set priorities and drive business decisions and execution
• Ability to understand business activities with a broader view beyond finance
• Customer Centric mindset
• Demonstrated leadership, influencing and people engagement skills
• Direct communication with clarity at all levels
• Business Acumen
• Emotional Intelligence

What We Want from You

• University degree in a relevant field. MBA preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in finance or adjacent roles in a complex industry (ideally food/healthcare packaging)
• Experience working in an international company
• Effective participation in multi-functional work projects and cross-functional teams in an international environment
• Demonstrated capability to develop team skills and capabilities with sustained process improvements over time.

Physical Requirements & Working Conditions

• Regular attendance.
• Frequent interaction and communication with others.
• Ability to sit for extended periods of time.
• Abiltiy to work on a computer majority of time.
• Ability to travel domestically: limited (<10% of time)
• Office environment.

We expect our people to be guided by The Amcor Way and demonstrate our Values every day to enable the business to win. We are winning when:

• Our people are engaged and developing as part of a high-performing Amcor team
• Our customers grow and prosper from Amcor's quality, service, and innovation
• Our investors benefit from Amcor's consistent growth and superior returns
• The environment is better off because of Amcor's leadership and products

Amcor is an Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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When you join Amcor, you will have access to a comprehensive benefits and compensation package that includes:

• Medical, dental and vision plans

• Flexible time off, starting at 80 hours paid time per year for full-time salaried employees

• Company-paid holidays starting at 9 days per year and may be slightly higher by location

• Wellbeing program & Employee Assistance Program

• Health Savings Account/Flexible Spending Account

• Life insurance, AD&D, short-term & long-term disability, and voluntary accident disability benefits are available

• Paid Parental Leave

• Retirement Savings Plan with company match

• Tuition Reimbursement (dependent upon approval)

• Discretionary annual bonus program (initial eligibility dependent upon hire date)