Commercial Finance Business Partner - Consumer Division
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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
Requirements
- Minimum 3 years of experience in Commercial Finance, Business Controlling, or Business Partnering roles with direct exposure to Sales and revenue-driving functions.
- 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, SAP and BI tools ).
- 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).
- French language
- 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 can be based either in MADRID, in MAT ARO' (Barcelona) o in RASZYN (Poland)
- Are you interested in the role? please send your CV in ENGLISH
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- Are you ready to make a change for a cleaner future ?
- About Nilfisk
- We embrace diversity and equality with an environment of inclusion. We encourage everyone to apply for the position, regardless of origin, race, ethnicity, religion, physical or mental ability, gender, gender-i
Benefits
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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.
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