Sr. Director, Gorilla Brand Finance

Summary

At The Gorilla Glue Company, we’re passionate about building strong brands with our fantastic team of employees. We believe in promoting a culture of excellence that empowers, engages, and connects people. The Senior Director, Gorilla Brand Finance serves as the senior Commercial Finance leader supporting the Gorilla brand portfolio and its long‑range profitable growth agenda. This role operates at the intersection of finance, brand strategy, commercial planning, pricing, innovation, analytics, and enterprise resource allocation, translating business strategy into clear financial choices, investment priorities, and performance expectations.

As a strategic thought partner to Brand, Sales, Commercial Strategy & Planning, and Finance leadership, this role leads enterprise‑level financial planning, brand investment governance, pricing strategy, margin expansion, marketing effectiveness, innovation economics, and portfolio decision support. The Senior Director is accountable for shaping the financial strategy that enables sustainable revenue growth, brand equity, and disciplined return on investment.

This position is expected to influence senior leaders, challenge assumptions, build executive‑ready recommendations, and drive alignment across functions and regions. The role requires both strategic judgment and strong operating discipline, including the ability to lead complex analyses, guide cross‑functional decision‑making, develop finance capability across the organization, and ensure strong internal controls while maximizing enterprise value.

• Set the financial strategy for the Gorilla brand portfolio; lead long‑range financial planning, annual planning, forecasting, and performance management across the brand P&L, ensuring alignment to growth, margin, cash, and enterprise value creation priorities.
• Serve as the senior finance advisor to commercial and brand leadership; partner with Brand, Sales, Commercial Strategy & Planning, and Finance leaders to evaluate strategic choices, challenge assumptions, and recommend financially sound paths forward.
• Lead investment governance and ROI discipline; establish the financial framework for trade, marketing, innovation, and brand‑building investments; evaluate effectiveness; and recommend reallocation decisions to maximize return and brand equity.
• Own pricing strategy and financial governance; partner with cross‑functional leadership to develop annual and multi‑year pricing strategies, leverage advanced analytics, and establish governance across major portfolios and offerings.
• Shape innovation and portfolio economics; lead financial analysis for new product launches, product development, portfolio optimization, and strategic initiatives, ensuring plans are commercially compelling, financially viable, and operationally executable.
• Identify enterprise value creation opportunities; use market trends, competitive insights, margin analytics, cost‑to‑serve, and scenario modeling to uncover opportunities to accelerate profitable revenue growth and reduce complexity.
• Lead executive‑level decision support; develop and present concise, executive‑ready financial recommendations, business cases, forecasts, and scenario analyses to senior leaders to support enterprise decision‑making.
• Drive cross‑functional transformation; lead complex, high‑impact initiatives across Brand, Sales, Finance, and Operations that require influence, prioritization, change leadership, and sustained execution.
• Build financial capability across the matrix; coach and train cross‑functional leaders on financial drivers, marketing investment effectiveness, pricing discipline, and decision‑quality analytics.
• Maintain strong financial discipline and controls; ensure planning, investment management, and reporting processes are accurate, controlled, and aligned to company standards while supporting agile business decision‑making.
• Lead special projects and strategic analyses; sponsor and lead high‑priority projects that may span brands, functions, regions, or enterprise priorities, translating complex data into actionable business strategy.
• Develop talent and leadership capability; provide…