Head of Commercial Strategy
- Recruiter
- Alexander Daniels Limited
- Location
- England, Warwickshire
- Salary
- £70000 - £80000 per annum + Company car,medical insurance,pension
- Posted
- 19 Feb 2017
- Closes
- 26 Feb 2017
- Ref
- PR/009235
- Contact
- Kerry Sheerman
- Job Title
- Finance Director
- Category
- Consumer products / FMCG
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Hours
- Full Time
Fantastic opportunity for a commercially astute and senior leader to join this much evolving bluechip organisation.
Business Services has been identified as a key organisational lever that will deliver better outcomes at lower cost points while allowing our entities to focus on their priorities.
The Commercial Strategy team will be at the core of working with functions to define, build and transfer key business processes within Business Services. This role will create and then lead the team that will oversee £20 million in cost efficiencies to be delivered in the UK. In addition, it will provide a commercially astute strategy capability to the Business Services team focusing on delivering value add propositions and enabling the organisation to be strategically agile.
Job Purpose:
* Cultivating relationships (at director level) and establish a network of advocates (at all levels) that inspire and promote the rigour, value and benefits of the Business Services organisation
* Leading and inspiring a team of highly talented people who should challenge you and the organisation on a daily basis on how to do things better
* Opening up a two-way dialogue between Senior Leaders and the Business Services team, this role will facilitate the scoping stages of what a redesign might deliver and how the structure may change around the operating model.
* To liaise with senior stakeholders during the engage, design, build and operate phases of the process migration methodology
* To build and lead the commercial strategy team that will support new and existing process within Business Services under a business partner model
* This role will play a key support to teams responsible for Business Services by translating conversations into workable propositions where further work can be taken to decompose the mechanics of how the change would actually operate
* Support the Head of Strategy, Solutions & Sustainability, ensuring alignment of the work of other team members as required
The successful candidate will have the ability to work with a blank page to setup and implement a internal business partnering and development team. there will be significant exposure to senior leaders across all of the broader UK business.
If you are looking for a high impact and visible role to drive significant and impactful change programmes, this is a fantastic career move.
Experience required:
* Degree Educated Required
* MBA/CIMA or other business related master's level qualification an advantage
* Significant exposure to and ability to influence directors/senior management teams
* Commercial acumen gained in a large complex FTSE/Blue Chip environment
* The ability to deal with ambiguity and make lasting change in a fast paced environment