B2C Business Performance and Planning Manager

Business: Nespresso

Contract: Permanent

Start Date: Asap

Position Summary

The B2C Business Performance and Planning Manager is responsible for driving the business planning process, collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure accurate and timely planning and optimize business performance to support our growth objectives. The role involves executing all relevant performance analyses , identifying opportunities, and support the development of actionable plans. You will report to the B2C Commercial Director and be part of the B2C department of Nestlé Belgilux/Benelux.

A day in the life of a B2C Business Performance and Planning Manager  

• Leads the planning (OP & forecast) process to ensure accurate and timely financial planning.
• Develop, maintain and adjust forecasting models to ensure accurate  planning
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Channel Managers, Marketing, Finance & Supply chain) to align departmental goals with overall business strategy.
• Monitor performance against OP, forecast and previous year (on a daily, monthly and yearly basis), providing insights and recommendations for corrective actions as needed. Leads the Monthly Sales Review process.
• Analyze B2C performance data and metrics to identify trends & opportunities
• Analyse sales performance on daily basis & develop necessary dashboards
• Collect & analyse market information
• Collect data and deliver daily reports on standard channel KPIs
• Provide insight and actionable recommendations to the Channel Managers to improve performance. Advise on possible outcome by quantifying opportunities.
• Prepare comprehensive reports and presentations for senior management to facilitate informed decision-making.
• Communicate effectively with senior leadership regarding business performance and planning activities.

What will make you successful

• min 5 years of experience in analytics, metrics gathering, and reporting and related software
• Proficiency in predictive modeling, forecasting and other statistical analyses and related software
• Deep proficiency with analytics tools (Google Analytics is a plus)
• Proven ability to perform in-depth analysis, synthesize results, build strategies and make recommendations to business
• Strong ability to design, develop and prepare business presentations and reports to senior management
• Strong working knowledge of data visualisation tools ( PowerBi )
• Experience with GFK is a plus
• Knowledge off Snowflake, SapHana is a plus
• Strong familiarity with business and marketing metrics
• Strong Critical thinking and rigorous statistical skills
• Strong logical thinking capabilities
• Proven experience in developing a data-driven mindset in a company
• Experience in a multi-national, multi-channel environment
• Fluent in English mandatory

What we offer

• a full-time position.
• excellent terms of employment, including a 13th month, company car, 27 holidays, seniority days, Insurances and net allowances
• access to a wide variety of corporate training and development programs.
• career opportunities within Belgium and internationally.
• an excellent working environment with high team orientation, brand pride, and motivated colleagues.

Any questions?

Our recruiters would be glad to answer any pending questions. Feel free to send your questions to careers@be.nestle.com.

Applying for the role of B2C Business Performance and Planning Manager?

Great! If you see a match with the description as described above we would gladly receive your cv and motivation. You can upload these via the link.

We use an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Tool to schedule interviews with our candidates. So keep an eye on your email for the interview invitation! When registering your application, you will be asked if we may send you whatsapp messages; if you answer 'yes' to this, you will receive communication via whatsapp in addition to messages via email. Communication through our AI tool is in English, but our recruiters speak both English and Dutch or French.

Interim CV’s will not be processed.