Value Creation Business Partner

Job Description:

The Business Partner, Value Creation is a key member of the Integration Management Office (IMO) Value Creation team, reporting to the Value Creation Lead. The role serves as the primary value creation partner to assigned functions, regions, and integration work streams, helping teams identify, quantify, track, and realize synergy commitments.

The Spend Better program is a critical pillar of the global Synergy program, focused on unlocking sustainable cost savings and productivity across the end-to-end value chain. Spend Better encompasses a broad range of value-creation opportunities, with an elevated emphasis on Directs (Direct Materials, Packaging, Recipe & Formulation, and Design-to-Value) alongside manufacturing productivity, network optimization, logistics efficiency, travel and overhead optimization, and other structural cost-reduction initiatives.

We are looking for a highly commercially oriented Finance Business Partner to partner the global Spend Better program and drive greater rigor, pace and intensity in delivering value. This role will operate at the intersection of Finance, Procurement, R&D, Supply Chain, Manufacturing, Marketing and other functional teams. The successful candidate will work with senior stakeholders globally while partnering closely with Finance Business Partners across regions and functions.

The role requires someone who can identify opportunities, challenge assumptions, translate operational opportunities into financial value, and ensure that savings are both delivered and sustained.

What are we looking for?

• 10+ years of progressive Finance experience, ideally with significant experience in cost transformation, productivity, value creation or performance improvement.

• Demonstrated experience across the Directs ecosystem— encompassing direct materials procurement finance, raw & packaging materials, R&D/formulation optimization, Design-to-Value (DtV), and Bill of Materials (BOM) cost architecture.

• Substantial background in Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG), Food & Beverage, or FMCG manufacturing environments where recipe, packaging, and factory conversion are central to cost structures.

• Demonstrated experience translating operational productivity opportunities into validated, sustainable financial savings, with a strong understanding of manufacturing cost drivers and the ability to distinguish structural savings from volume, mix, inflation, FX and other financial effects.
• Experience operating in large, complex, multinational organizations is strongly preferred.

Technical / Commercial Capability:

• End-to-End Directs & Manufacturing Economics: Strong grasp of recipe costing, ingredient functionality trade-offs, packaging specifications, yield/scrap dynamics, and conversion economics.
• Cost Engineering & DtV Acumen: Familiarity with teardowns, Design-to-Value principles, clean-sheet pricing, and supplier margin analysis.
• Financial Modeling & Valuation: High proficiency in complex business cases, discounted cash flows, switchover investment paybacks, and synergy stage-gate tracking.
• Financial Control & Accounting: Deep understanding of COGS, standard costing variance (purchase price variance, usage variance), P&L flow-through, and inventory valuation.
• Analytical Precision: Ability to distill massive datasets across ERP systems and bill of materials into clear financial drivers and actionable business decisions.

Leadership & Behavioral Capabilities:

• Commercial & Technical Co-Pilot: Operates with a growth and value-creation mindset; understands the operational levers behind the numbers.
• Constructive Challenger: Confident in probing assumptions made by both procurement buyers and technical developers to ensure targets are robust.
• Navigating Ambiguity: Thrives in dynamic, fast-paced integration environments, balancing strategic vision with granular operational execution.
• Influencing Without Authority: Exceptional interpersonal skills to mobilize cross-functional global partners who do not report directly to this position.
• Clarity of Communication: Exceptional storytelling and synthesis skills, simplifying technical and financial complexities for senior executive audiences.

What will be your key responsibilities?

1. Drive the Global Spend Better Agenda:

• • Act as the primary Finance Business Partner to the global Spend Better program.
  • Partner with the Spend Better team to translate overall synergy ambition into actionable, prioritized portfolio of initiatives across both commercial directs (e.g., strategic…