SC Finance Transformation Manager

The Ice Cream division at Unilever is preparing to stand on its own, aiming to become an independent, EUR 8.3 billion publicly listed company by the end of 2025. We’re on a mission to create the ultimate snacking company—a place where growth, innovation, founder and ownership mentality, and performance are cultivated and rewarded. Here, we craft extraordinary ice cream experiences, transforming ordinary moments into lasting memories. Because we know, life tastes better with ice cream.

ABOUT THE MAGNUM ICE CREAM COMPANY:

The Magnum Ice Cream Company is all about growth—growing our business, our customers’ businesses, and our people’s careers. Growth begins with empowerment, so we free our people to be innovative, responsible entrepreneurs, driven and equipped to give our consumers more amazing products and unforgettable moments—while having fun doing it.

With 19,000 expert ice cream colleagues and iconic brands like Wall’s, Cornetto, and Ben & Jerry’s, loved in 76 countries, we are the world’s largest Ice Cream company leading the industry. We have been taking pleasure seriously for more than 100 years, serving happiness with every lick or scoop of ice cream for generations.

We are investing to unlock the full growth potential of The Magnum Ice Cream Company as a standalone entity, once we separate from Unilever, which is planned to happen before the end of 2025.

We dream big but keep things simple to act fast.

If you want to grow with us, make an impact, and shape the future of Ice Cream, this is the place for you!

BUSINESS CONTEXT

ICE EU/ANZ is on a journey to accelerate growth and profitability. We aim to deliver consistent, competitive 3%+ growth, and grow profit ahead of sales.

Transformation is a key lever in the profitability plan. Across all P&L areas there are several plans underway, driving a strong transformation plan, delivering the growth, the productivity, and the fuel to re-invest. With key principles on doing things smarter, simpler, bolder, and bigger.

MAIN JOB PURPOSE

Europe has the ambition to deliver underlying sales growth whilst stepping up underlying operating margin. The ambition is unprecedented and requires a high level of creativity and flexibility, especially considering market volatility.

A bold but balanced set of initiatives has been launched, covering the transformation of Europe’s Supply Chain (SC) network across main categories, driving savings harder and more transparently, a relentless push on Zero Waste, and re-setting Europe’s Manufacturing network to the competitive level the business needs.

Reporting to the Ice Cream Transformation Director Europe & ANZ, the Supply Chain Finance Transformation Manager Europe & ANZ will be the custodian and driver of delivery of the program composed of several individual projects for the Ice Cream category.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Full ownership of all transformation reporting, including effective communication to all stakeholders
• Monthly transformation savings management reporting, driving the full reporting cycle with all stakeholders to ensure timely submission of actuals and forecast
• Driving variance analysis and holding project teams accountable for execution and delivery, as well as ensuring clear explanations and alignment on changes and R&O
• Own budget capex and restructuring control and governance of projects
• Ensure restructuring accounting and treatment is permanently aligned with Controllers Group and accounting rules
• Consolidating and reporting actuals and forecast for restructuring cost and alignment with global team
• Driving clear reporting of actual and forecasted project management cost, including clear phasing of people involved
• Drive finance validation of all plans, capturing all milestones and critical steps to secure delivery
• Ensure clear operational and financial KPI tracking is implemented for all live projects
• Step in for specific projects/areas to deliver a well-aligned business case

WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED:

EXPERIENCES & QUALIFICATIONS

• 5 years' experience in FMCG and Finance (Supply Chain Finance a plus, particularly in business case development)
• Professional qualifications and experience: Finance/business degree, fluent in English
• Experienced living and working in different cultural environments
• A solid understanding of cost accounting, financial accounting, and project management
• Strong problem-solving skills, analytical ability, strategic and critical thinking with focus on value creation
• Demonstrated ability to work and build rapport with stakeholders in a multicultural and multilevel dynamic environment
• Key Skills: change agent, driving performance through finance
• Advanced knowledge on modelling, big data, and storytelling
• Standards of Leadership: bias for action, curiosity and drive, accountability and responsibility

WHAT IS IN IT FOR YOU?

• Attractive total remuneration package; excellent company pension, bonus, and share scheme
• Flexible cross-disciplinary career opportunities and a wealth of training opportunities & wellbeing resources whenever and wherever
• Plenty of company-paid holidays to further ensure your work-life balance is maintained
• We encourage an inclusive culture, which comes to life with interchangeable public holidays, paid paternity leave of 6 weeks, and our transgender policy
• Under the Hybrid Working principles, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 40% in the office or at customers, suppliers, or partners to connect and collaborate. For the time you work from home, we will ensure you are well equipped. When you are at the office, you can enjoy our tasty canteen with prepped food and own products
• Informal culture and being the first one trying our new products
• My Fitness Plan (reduction on your Fitness Subscription)
• Home work allowance
• Company laptop and mobile phone
• Green Mobility Policy

As publicly announced, it is envisaged that Unilever will internally separate its Ice Cream business by July 2025, at which point this role will transfer to the new Ice Cream company. It is expected that the Ice Cream business will then separate from Unilever by the end of 2025. Any impact on terms and conditions of employment will be communicated in due course. This proposal is subject to consultation where legally required.

We take pleasure seriously. Join the Ice Cream Team now! 🍦