Plant Controller

Join Our Team

Want to help us bring happiness to the world? Want to join an ambitious and fast-growing global biscuits and confectionery business investing heavily in iconic global brands, infrastructure, and people? Then this is the place for you.

As proud bakers and chocolatiers and custodians of iconic global brands, we don’t compromise on the quality of ingredients in our products or on the people we hire. We are looking for entrepreneurial spirits who share our passion for bringing happiness to our consumers and who embody our Winning Traits.

To succeed at pladis you need to be purpose-led, resilient, and positive to succeed here because we expect pace and agility, we insist on collaboration and demand accountability. If that is your thing, then pladis offers global ambition, a clear Vision and roadmap for success, challenge, and unrivalled opportunities to learn and make an impact.

The Challenge
Are numbers second nature to you, are you strong in control, and do you take timely action if something doesn't seem right? Do you also see it as a challenge to improve financial processes and take a proactive role in this? Then we are looking for you!

What does the role entail?

The Plant Controller is part of the international Finance organization and will mainly act as a sparring partner for the General Manager of the factory and the local management team.

Your main tasks:

• Acting as an advisor and sparring partner for the factory management team and the international Finance organization.
• Providing and optimizing periodic reports and delivering substantive analyses.
• Setting up and facilitating the budgeting and forecasting process.
• Ultimately responsible for further developing and maintaining an effective and efficient financial factory administration.
• Identifying, analyzing, and solving budget deviations.
• Identifying opportunities for efficiency improvements.
• Preparing analyses for (potential) investments.
• Advising the management team and department managers on business operations from a financial perspective.
• Initiating improvement actions based on numerical analyses.
• Preparing investment proposals and making post-calculations.

What do you bring?

You are an enthusiastic and driven team player who wants to strengthen our Finance team. As a Plant Controller, you are both analytically and communicatively strong and can hold your own in a factory environment within a commercial organization. You can be described as flexible and result-oriented and are able to work autonomously. You have a critical eye and are always working on improving processes. Additionally, you have:

• A completed university education.
• At least 4-6 years of work experience in controlling within a production environment.
• Experience acting as a sparring partner for management.
• Experience with ERP systems (JDE/SAP).
• Positive, driven, and a hands-on mentality.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills (Dutch and English).

What do we offer?

A challenging job that is different every day! We promise that. You get a lot of freedom in the execution of the function and also a lot of responsibility. Of course, you are not alone, as part of a diverse team you regularly have contact with other departments and managers. Additionally, there is plenty of room for personal development.

Some of our employment conditions:

• Fixed-term employment contract (12 months) with the prospect of a permanent contract;
• Opportunity for further development through practical training;
• A market-based salary, depending on age and experience;
• Full-time employment for 37.5 hours per week;
• 34 vacation days (based on full-time);
• Pension in accordance with the Confectionery Industry Collective Agreement;
• Collective health insurance (CZ and Zilveren Kruis), bicycle scheme, and fitness scheme;
• The nicest colleagues in an informal working environment.

Who are we?

Koninklijke Verkade, founded in 1886, with beautiful and very well-known brands such as Verkade and Sultana, has been part of pladis since 2016. A global community with iconic brands such as McVities, Godiva, and Ulker. Together we have more than 300 years of baking history. Our 16,000 colleagues, in every corner of the world, each bring their own experience of happiness. Each of us is unique, but we find each other as a family of bakers and chocolatiers, hardworking, with pride and a purpose. Because after all these years, we still believe that cookies and chocolate bring people together. We are pladis. We bake happiness. Happiness with every bite.

pladis can only be successful because of people like you. People who get up every day and can't wait to get to work. People who believe in themselves and their potential. Who want to grow and be part of a global community of like-minded colleagues. We are convinced that growth comes from working together, helping each other, and having the passion to contribute to our mission: to bring happiness with every bite.

pladis colleagues like to be the best at what they do, want to win, and don't give up. Whether we are baking, or working in Supply Chain, HR, Finance, Marketing, or one of the many other fields, we want to win as a 'one pladis' team.

We are all unique, but share common values by which we work and live. We call them our 'Winning Traits & Behaviours': Purpose Led, Agile, Collaborative, Positive, and Resilient. Five aspects of pladis that define who we are, how we interact with each other, and how we get things done.

About Us

pladis is one of the world’s fastest growing snacking companies and home to much loved brands including McVitie’s, GODIVA and Ülker. pladis also owns regional brands Jacob’s, Go Ahead, Flipz, Turtles, BN, Verkade and many more products across sweet and savoury biscuits, wafer, cake and chocolate.

Formed in 2016, pladis is the proud steward of over 300 years of family baking and confectionery experience. The expertise of our 16,000-strong global workforce spans 27 bakeries across 11 countries and is united by our purpose: to ‘bring happiness with every bite’.

As a responsible business delivering the highest quality products and exceptional service, pladis’ products have the potential to reach more than four billion people across the world.