Manager - Brand Finance

Tropicana Headquarters
525 W Van Buren St
Suite 1100
Chicago, IL 60607, USA

Tropicana Brands Group is a $3B startup aiming to revolutionize the beverage category. Formed in 2022 as a joint venture between PAI Partners and Pepsi Co, our portfolio includes iconic brands like Tropicana, Naked, KeVita, Izze, Copella, and Punica. With over 76 years of global leadership in the orange juice category, we’re committed to preserving this legacy while driving innovation in other areas.

From reimagining orange juice to creating functional smoothies and driving afternoon refreshments, we are striving to become the undisputed global leader in fresh and chilled beverages.

The Finance team plays a critical role in Tropicana Brands Group’s overall success by providing financial insights, strategic guidance, and operational support. Through budgeting, forecasting, and financial analysis, the team ensures that resources are allocated efficiently to drive profitability and growth. Additionally, the team supports decision-making by identifying risks and opportunities, optimizing costs, and ensuring compliance with internal controls and financial regulations.

By partnering with other departments, Finance helps align financial goals with business strategies, ultimately contributing to the company’s stability and long‑term success.

The Manager – Brand Finance is a strategic finance partner to brand, sales, marketing, operations, and supply chain leaders, helping translate commercial priorities into actionable financial plans and profitable growth. The role leads core planning, forecasting, performance reporting, and financial analysis for assigned brands, with a focus on revenue growth, gross profit, trade and promotional investment, cost productivity, and disciplined resource allocation.

The Manager brings financial rigor and an ownership mindset to decisions, clearly explaining performance drivers and recommending actions that improve business results.

Responsibilities include:

• Serve as a trusted finance partner to brand and commercial leaders, connecting financial performance to brand strategy, consumer priorities, and customer plans.
• Evaluate business cases for pricing, promotions, innovation, assortment, distribution, and other growth initiatives; quantify risks, returns, and key assumptions.
• Provide fact-based recommendations that balance near‑term financial delivery with sustainable, long‑term brand growth.
• Support cross‑functional decision‑making by translating complex financial analyses into clear, concise business insights.

• Build financial evaluations for new products, packaging, channel expansion, and other innovation or brand‑growth opportunities.
• Track productivity and cost‑saving initiatives, validating financial benefits, timing, ownership, and delivery against commitments.
• Support strategic projects and ad hoc analyses for brand leadership and senior Finance, including sensitivities and scenario planning.
• Promote consistent financial discipline, clear ownership, and measurement of outcomes across cross‑functional initiatives.

• Analyze price realization, promotional effectiveness, customer and channel profitability, trade investment, and revenue‑management opportunities.
• Assess product and customer economics, including cost of goods sold, manufacturing and distribution costs, mix, and contribution margin.
• Partner with Sales, Marketing, Revenue Growth Management, and Supply Chain to assess ROI and post‑launch performance of initiatives.
• Identify risks and opportunities early and develop practical…