Role Description:

Newell Brands is seeking a Sr. Manager, Finance to support our Outdoor & Recreation brands (Coleman®, Contigo®, and Marmot®). The role is global with additional support to the domestic go-to-market team. The Sr. Manager, Finance works cross functionally with Brand Management, Customer Strategy & Planning and Sales teams on innovation, activation, and commercialization activities to drive profitable growth. The role is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

Outdoor & Recreation is an omni-channel business that competes across diverse product categories including active lifestyle products for outdoor activities, technical apparel, and on-the-go beverageware. These products are sold through various go-to-market channels including mass merchandisers, eCommerce, wholesale clubs, outdoor specialists, and owned direct-to-consumer sites.

This position will report to the CFO, Finance of Outdoor & Recreation and provide critical finance and commercial support to the business. This will include owning global brand P&Ls; innovation support; working capital management; monthly performance analysis; planning & forecasting; advertising & promotion effectiveness; pricing and gross margin optimization analysis. This person will primarily support the Brand Management team but will also have significant input into decisions with our go-to-market channel strategy, helping the organization make profitable, fact-based decisions. This position will provide insights into current processes, recommend areas for improvement and be proactive in creating tools that will drive improved decisions making.

Primary Responsibilities

• Supports global P&L review with cross functional teams, provide profitability insights to drive profitable growth and mitigate risk.
• Analyzes global results by providing explanations on key P&L drivers for the period vs. forecast, budget and prior year including customer and product volume/mix, trade spend and advertising and promotions.
• Prepares and consolidates monthly forecast, annual budget, and strategic plans, working closely with Brand Management, Customer Planning & Strategy and Sales
• Analyzes proposed advertising, promotional spend and other activation investments with pre- and post-activity ROI analytics to help inform current and future decisions.
• Supports commercialization and go-to-market analysis and controls trade rate investment.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to monitor the brand/category marketplace including Newell POS performance, market share, and category growth trends. Recommend actions based upon insights from trends.
• Work in conjunction with Brand Management and Customer Planning & Strategy to establish MSRP and category pricing based on market conditions, brand strength, product benefits, cost inputs and the competitive landscape.
• Supports the New Product Development process (Innovation and Renovation) working with cross functional stakeholders including Brand Management, Consumer Insights, Customer Strategy & Planning, Sales, and Operations Finance.
• Activities include developing forecasts, preparing financials, calculating project return metrics, analyze changes vs. previous updates.
• Optimize portfolio assortment based upon SKU level performance, innovation plans and market trends and recommend enhancements to the assortment.
• Provide thought leadership and analytical rigor to support profitable growth strategies at a product and/or brand level.
• Optimizes gross margin based upon pricing, mix management, cost improvement and innovation.
• Liaise with Operations Finance to summarize impacts of standard costs and manufacturing variances for historical, current, and future key material costs.
• Support managing and optimizing working capital including inventory. This includes portfolio optimization, establishing product life-cycle expectations, and monitoring excess & obsolete inventory and establishing sell-through recommendations.
• Foster positive and collaborative relationships within finance team, cross-functional and regional leadership.
• Identify gaps, and lead improvement projects, partnering with key stakeholders.
• Ensure ongoing governance, control, and compliance with both corporate and external procedures and audits.

Qualifications And Experience Preferred For This Role:

• Bachelor's degree in finance, accounting, or a related field of study, master's degree preferred
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience with progressively increasing levels of responsibility.
• Consumer goods background preferred with broad based financial acumen (brand, commercial, sales, operations, and FP&A).
• Strong working knowledge of project valuation, volume/price/mix analysis, trade promotions and advertising and promotional spend.
• Comfortable working with and synthesizing large amounts of data.
• Strong interpersonal skills, both written and verbal communication.
• Ability to operate with a consumer-focused mindset to partner and collaborate achieving a common goal with cross functional business partners.
• Results driven behavior acting with sense of urgency and with the ability to recommend and make decisions quickly.
• Ability to improve processes and apply continuous improvement-mindset to day-to-day activities.
• Ability to learn new financial information systems and data and to work between various IT systems efficiently and accurately.
• Comfort with ambiguity and a willingness to work with a high degree of autonomy.
• Advanced Excel skills, highly analytical and detail oriented.
• Experience with Hyperion (HFM), SAP (ECC) and Power BI.