Description
About the Company
Lewis Road Creamery is a boutique New Zealand dairy company. They produce a range of dairy products including their famous flavoured milks, premium white milks, ice cream and butter. They pride themselves on making these premium, natural, and sustainable products available to everyone. Lewis Road Creamery have a genuine pasture to plate story and consistently challenges through innovation and marketing within the dairy landscape in New Zealand and abroad.
The Role
The Commercial Finance Manager is a strategic leader and key business partner to the Sales function driving business growth, profitability, and market share through the development and execution of commercial strategies. This role oversees all commercial aspects of the business operations including sales, pricing, business analytics, and contract negotiations to ensure financial and commercial goals are achieved.
Key Responsibilities
Responsibilities will include, but not limited to:
- Develop & execute robust commercial strategies to achieve revenue, market share, and margin objectives in the highly competitive FMCG landscape.
- Support New Product Development (NPD) initiatives in collaboration with marketing, sales and supply chain teams.
- Develop and deliver monthly commercial and sales performance reports to the wider business, including actionable insights for marketing, finance, and supply chain teams.
- Own budget planning & commercial performance reporting.
- Lead pricing reviews and develop strategies for customer negotiations to ensure mutually beneficial agreements and long-term partnerships.
- Help drive New Business initiatives in collaboration with marketing, category, and supply chain teams.
- Conduct regular cost reviews, including cost of goods sold, freight, selling costs and overhead analysis, ensuring margin protection and operational efficiency.
- Utilize tools like Power Bi & Business Central to create clear dashboards and data visualisations to support strategic decision-making.
- Manage & support contract reviews and negotiations with key suppliers & customers.
- Mitigate commercial risks through proactive scenario planning and risk management strategies.
- Work closely with the Sales function on the development and execution of sales strategies to meet volume and value targets across all key channels (Grocery, Non-Grocery, Export).
About You:
You will ideally be CA/CPA/CIMA Qualified with exposure to the commercial sector in a fast paced and complex organisation, with a background ideally in FMCG, Retail or similar highly advantageous.
You will have strong business acumen and are an effective communicator with all stakeholders and naturally look for ways to create efficiency in your work. If you are a ‘big picture’ finance business partner who gains satisfaction from enabling your stakeholders to understand the numbers, then apply now.
Your interpersonal skills will be advanced, with the ability to inspire and develop those around you, as well as having the confidence to work closely with and advise your senior stakeholders.
What’s in it for you…
Along with an attractive base salary and benefits package, this is an opportunity to join a business who are embarking on a period of positive change. This role also will give you the exposure to working closely with the SLT with the expectation that you will contribute to the business’s strategy and performance.
If this opportunity is of interest, please submit your CV by following the link below. If you’d like to find out more and for a confidential discussion, contact Josie Clarke on 0277734733 or at josiec@huntercampbell.co.nz
- True commercially focused position, to drive business growth
- Reporting to the GM of Finance
- Beautiful CBD offices with access to chocolate milk whenever you desire
