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Role Overview

A successful Investment Management Lead is one who can create and implement a strong partnership with the Marketing Organization and other Functions to manage resource allocations and Strategic Investments across the OU to drive growth and profitability.

As a senior member of the OU Finance team, reporting directly to the OU CFO, this role builds on strong influence and communication skills coupled with strategic, data-driven thinking to drive key metrics on growth and profitability. The role entails managing a team of associates directly.

Focus, Scope and Impact

Business Partnership: Partner with the OU senior leaders to manage and execute the resource allocation strategy, including:

• Implement the Global resource allocation strategy in the OU

• Develop and implement along with Management and Strategy the local resource allocation strategy

• Analyze/Benchmark/rationalize the strategy based on local considerations

• Act as primary contact of Marketing

• Assess all on-going projects and prioritize them based on current allocation guidelines

• Assess, develop and monitor a clear marketing asset strategy with the Center and other functions

Manage Strategic Investment Finance and support innovation within the OU, including:

• Partnership with Strategy on Profit pools, Portfolio strategy, Execute the center guidance

• Implement category model framework/playbooks, review category financials and align action to improve category margins

• Develop and drive marketing efficiency and effectiveness in collaboration with marketing team

• Execution day to day including outside the BP to identify opportunities to create more value through consumer insights

• Review and assess market opportunities support new product ideas

Support New Product Development (NPD) and Commercialization lifecycle

• Develop financial Business case and align internal stakeholders for closure

• Establish a metrics linked NPD PLR (post launch review) review mechanism

• Establish a clear zombie mechanism and work with stakeholders to clean the NPD pipeline

• Work and align with Global Finance on submission routines.

Other work priorities

• Provide holistic understanding of business performance inside the OU, including innovation support.Use a fact-based, analytic, strategic approach to collaborating across OU

Minimum Qualifications and Requirements:

• 12 years of leadership experience in senior commercial finance roles

• Extensive management experience, with ability to work in a diverse cultural environment as a highly efficient communicator and influencer at all levels

• Role model the 'Leadership in the Network' definition

• Ability to lead teams/prior people leadership experience and collaborating cross-functionally on enterprise priorities

• Broad expertise in Risk management, Agile ways of working, enterprise-wide / transformational initiatives, portfolio strategy and flexibility

Skills Leadership; Waterfall Project Management; Account Closing; Business Analytics; Financial Modeling; Key Performance Indicators (KPI); Budgeting; Cash Flow; Financial Performance; Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP); Microsoft Office; Group Problem Solving; Communication; General Ledger (GL); Strategy Development; Financial Performance Management; Corporate Finance; Profit and Loss (P&L) Management; Teamwork; Preparation of Financial Reports; Financial Forecasting

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