About the job
Danone is looking for a talented professional based in Cairo, Egypt, to lead
the Channels, Strategy & Data Finance agenda for its Specialized Nutrition
Business, in the Middle East and North Africa region.

This role will initially project manage the financials stream for integrating
Maghreb countries (Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia) into MENA and later on work
on long-term projects within finance, such as value creation that are across
clusters in the CBU. This would require the following skills and tasks:
* Defining the scope, stakeholders, and clear project plan with a defined timeline at a sub-topic level to integrate smoothly
* Identifying bottlenecks, new dependencies and accordingly updating the plan regularly
* Having an adequate and timely communication matrix to the key stakeholders
* Follow-up on tasks until completion
* Updating the status of the finance stream in a summary, including key risks, support needed to deliver the plan
* Understand the business and financial information to use for building a data model for the MENA CBU.

Objectives of the Role:
CATEGORIES & CHANNELS:

• Prepare subcategory and channel-wise P&L for CBU and drill down to clusters/countries. Benchmark and animate performance and provide ideas to improve financial performance or gaps to address.


• Develop subcategories, cluster/country, and channel mix target and strategy. Propose accordingly the Channel investment strategy & sales/profit targets.


• Prepare Tender and non-tender channels across clusters to animate performance and provide actionable insights.

STRATEGY:
* Together with Finance Director and working closely with Marketing, supply chain and finance team, prepare strat plan financials and high/low scenarios.
* Prepare quarterly business review content bringing actual, forecasts, strat plan together to clearly articulate progress, resource needs, risks and opportunities to achieve mid-term goals.
* Investigate & integrate relevant facts and insights (Shopper, Customer & Channel - also integrate Consumer insight by closely working with Marketing) to identify growth or realization opportunities.
* Identify and analyze growth drivers and levers like mix and price effects within Net sales and Operating Margin explaining their impacts clearly at the CBU level.
* Bring constructive challenges, provide meaningful analysis and financial insights by developing standardized KPI's.
* Continuous channel and product portfolio financial review for the overall CBU.

AS FINANCE DATA & TECH PROJECT MANAGER, you will work closely with cluster
controlling teams to support the change of ways of working. What does that
mean?
* Understand current ways of working and design a CBU-wide scalable data model for business and financial performance integrating both internal and external financial data.
* Identify local specificities for each cluster and support gap analysis, and prepare recommendations for arbitration when needed.
* Suggest and drive continuous improvement of major financial tools and reports driving performance and uniformity across clusters.
* Act as a strategic business partner by shifting time from data crunching/reporting to higher added value analysis leading to higher business impact.
* Co-lead workshops with Finance & IT teams to define future ways of working for transformational projects.
* Manage build or deployment plan and monitor achievement of each milestone, being the guardian of planning/budget/quality requirements.
About you
To be successful in the role you should ideally have:

Education and Experience:

• Degree in Finance or equivalent


• Minimum ‎5-‎7 years of experience, ideally in an international company; FMCG background is a plus

Functional Competencies:

• Project Management experience


• Finance experience in controlling.


• Advanced Excel and Power BI Skills.


• By nature an interest in IT topics


• A strong set of interpersonal and communication skills


• Entrepreneurial, leadership, and "can do" mindset, pragmatic

Soft Skills:

• Strong communication & presentation skills.


• A high degree of reliability, agility, initiative, resilience, integrity, confidentiality and empathy.


• Strong stakeholder management, ability to influence


• Ability to perform in a cross-functional, volatile, uncertain and multi-cultural environment

Location: Cairo, Egypt; willingness to travel

Languages required : Fluent in English

Danone Values : Candidates are expected to adhere to Danone's core values:
Humanism, Openness, Proximity & Enthusiasm.

Mobility: Candidate should preferably be open to moving within the region
or outside the region with Danone in ‎3-‎4 years if such an opportunity will
arise which will contribute to his/her career growth
About us
Danone is a world-leading food company operating in three business divisions:
Fresh Dairy Products, Specialized Nutrition, and Waters.
Danone's mission is Bringing health through food to as many people as possible
and we want to invite people to join the movement for a healthier world. We
recognize the power people have in impacting the world through their daily
choices. Each time we eat and drink, we vote for the world we want to live in.
We believe a healthy body needs healthy food. And healthy food needs a healthy
planet and this is what our new signature One Planet One Health embodies.

We offer:
Working in Danone MENA is one of the best places to build a strong career
through everyday learning, empowerment, and team collaboration in an open
culture & environment. Our culture fosters autonomy and empowerment, where
your everyday can be a fresh adventure - full of new possibilities and
opportunities for your development.
Danone MENA doesn't just welcome what makes you unique, we value it. We're
proud to be an equal opportunity employer, where all hires to our team are
based on qualifications, merit, and business needs. We recruit, employ, train,
and promote regardless of race, color, religion, disability, sex, national
origin, age, genetic characteristic, or any other protected status. Faithful
to our values of openness and humanism, all of our employees share in the
commitment to engage one another with dignity and respect

So, if you are the Channels, Strategy and Data Lead we are looking for,
click on "apply" now before June ‎17, ‎2023.

For more information about Danone, its people, and its business, please visit
www.danone.com

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