Role Purpose
As a Commercial Finance Business Partner – Sales, you are a key driver of commercial performance and strategic growth — not a traditional finance function. You operate at the intersection of sales and finance, translating data into actionable commercial insights that directly influence decision-making, profitability, and market competitiveness.
You proactively challenge, support, and enable the sales organization to deliver sustainable growth by optimizing pricing, customer portfolios, investments, and resource allocation. Through forward-looking analysis and close collaboration with sales leadership, you ensure that commercial decisions are value-creating, strategically aligned, and performance-driven.
This role is about shaping the business — not reporting on it.
Key Responsibilities
Drive Commercial Performance
* Analyse commercial trends, customer performance, product mix and profitability.
* Identify risks, opportunities and patterns that help Sales take informed decisions.
* Deliver clear recommendations to improve pricing, margins, investments and commercial strategies.
* Translate complex data into simple, actionable storytelling for non‑financial stakeholders.
Be a true partner to Sales
* Work closely with Sales to support both day‑to‑day decisions and long‑term plans.
* Participate in commercial meetings as the financial voice of the team.
* Challenge assumptions and drive fact-based, value-creating decisions.
* Collaborate with Marketing, Supply Chain and other functions to ensure a holistic view of the business.
Commercial Performance Management
* Lead commercial forecasting and business planning, ensuring ambitious yet realistic growth targets and strong margin delivery.
* Drive performance transparency by translating deviations into clear commercial implications and corrective actions.
* Build and maintain KPI dashboards focused on commercial performance.
Strategic Support
* Support pricing, portfolio, and customer strategies with robust financial modeling.
* Evaluate ROI of commercial investments and support strategic decision‑making.
Required Qualifications
Must have
* Minimum 3 years of experience in Commercial Finance, Business Controlling, or Business Partnering roles with direct exposure to Sales and revenue-driving functions.
* French and English speaking
* Proven ability to influence commercial decisions and drive measurable impact on revenue growth and margin improvement.
* Ability to turn complex data into clear commercial insights, strategic conclusions, and actionable recommendations.
* Confidence in presenting to and influencing non‑financial stakeholders.
* Strong analytical and modelling skills (Excel, Sales Force and BI tools).
Nice to have
* Experience in retail or any sales‑driven environment.
* Experience with Customer Bonus Management, including structuring, tracking, and evaluating rebate agreements to ensure transparency, profitability, and alignment with commercial objectives.
* Hands-on collaboration with Sales, Marketing, Supply chain and other departments in our business unit
* Familiarity with data visualization tools (Power BI and Power Point).
Key Soft Skills
* Strong commercial curiosity and drive to understand what truly creates value in the market.
* Excellent communication and storytelling abilities
* Ability to connect data → business impact → actions
* Consultative mindset and stakeholder influencing skills
* Strategic thinking and proactivity
Position based in MATARO'
Are you interested in the role? please send your CV in ENGLISH
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