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VP, Commercial Excellence
Fazer Group
We are The Food Experience Company. Our vision, Towards Perfect Days, guides our way in an evolving food industry. We are expanding from a Finnish company to become truly Northern European, with growth opportunities beyond that. In the next few years, we aim to create value through building an even stronger position as the number one FMCG brand in Finland, developing leading positions in Northern Europe and beyond, accelerating our profitable growth through innovations, on-trend categories and foodtech, and excelling in our ways of working as an integrated company to be an industry leader in profitability. A culture of integrity, built on our values, creates the foundation of our success.
The role
Are you a visionary leader who is passionate about driving Commercial Excellence? We are looking for a VP, Commercial Excellence who will be accountable for building new capabilities and driving Commercial Excellence across the Fazer Group Commercial organization. In this role, you will be responsible for leading the development of advanced analytics and insight for Commercial Excellence, supporting and driving sales development and digital sales in Commercial Units, and gathering and driving best practices and tools for sales execution, including the leverage of AI. You will lead shopper marketing and in-store excellence in Fazer and be accountable for creating a world-class Perfect Store concept. You will have a team of sales analytics professionals reporting directly to you, and in matrix you will be leading the marketing activation teams and Category Leads in Commercial Units.
You will report to Chief Commercial Officer, Fazer Group. Location of this position can be any of the Fazer offices, preferably in Vantaa, Stockholm or Copenhagen. Frequent traveling is included in the role.
The person
We expect you to have minimum of 15 years' experience of working in sales leadership and commercial development positions in consumer-goods industry. You are especially strong in shopper marketing, in-store execution and sales excellence implementation. Strong leadership experience combined with outstanding execution skills are needed in this position. You are known as a fluent communicator with the ability to inspire, motivate and create commitment in others as well as promote cross-functional collaboration. Also, the capacity to lead and work in a constantly changing environment is a must-have. Your professionalism is based on a Master's degree in a suitable field. You have excellent written and spoken communication skills in English. Other languages is an asset.
More information about the position: please contact Tero Tynkkynen (tero.tynkkynen@fazer.com or +358 50 593 5127).
Fazer, The Food Experience Company, enables people to enjoy the best moments of their day. Our mission, Food with a purpose, builds on our strong more than 130-year heritage, consumer first approach and innovations to create the sustainable food solutions of the future. With our dedicated team of approximately 5,000 professionals, we focus on fast-moving consumer goods and our direct-to-consumer business in Northern Europe, and beyond with exports to more than 40 countries. Fazer's operations comply with its Code of Conduct that is based on the Group's values and the UN Global Compact. In 2023, Fazer Group had net sales of 1.200 million euros.
Northern Magic. Made Real.
VP, Commercial Excellence
Fazer Group
We are The Food Experience Company. Our vision, Towards Perfect Days, guides our way in an evolving food industry. We are expanding from a Finnish company to become truly Northern European, with growth opportunities beyond that. In the next few years, we aim to create value through building an even stronger position as the number one FMCG brand in Finland, developing leading positions in Northern Europe and beyond, accelerating our profitable growth through innovations, on-trend categories and foodtech, and excelling in our ways of working as an integrated company to be an industry leader in profitability. A culture of integrity, built on our values, creates the foundation of our success.
The role
Are you a visionary leader who is passionate about driving Commercial Excellence? We are looking for a VP, Commercial Excellence who will be accountable for building new capabilities and driving Commercial Excellence across the Fazer Group Commercial organization. In this role, you will be responsible for leading the development of advanced analytics and insight for Commercial Excellence, supporting and driving sales development and digital sales in Commercial Units, and gathering and driving best practices and tools for sales execution, including the leverage of AI. You will lead shopper marketing and in-store excellence in Fazer and be accountable for creating a world-class Perfect Store concept. You will have a team of sales analytics professionals reporting directly to you, and in matrix you will be leading the marketing activation teams and Category Leads in Commercial Units.
You will report to Chief Commercial Officer, Fazer Group. Location of this position can be any of the Fazer offices, preferably in Vantaa, Stockholm or Copenhagen. Frequent traveling is included in the role.
The person
We expect you to have minimum of 15 years' experience of working in sales leadership and commercial development positions in consumer-goods industry. You are especially strong in shopper marketing, in-store execution and sales excellence implementation. Strong leadership experience combined with outstanding execution skills are needed in this position. You are known as a fluent communicator with the ability to inspire, motivate and create commitment in others as well as promote cross-functional collaboration. Also, the capacity to lead and work in a constantly changing environment is a must-have. Your professionalism is based on a Master's degree in a suitable field. You have excellent written and spoken communication skills in English. Other languages is an asset.
More information about the position: please contact Tero Tynkkynen (tero.tynkkynen@fazer.com or +358 50 593 5127).
Fazer, The Food Experience Company, enables people to enjoy the best moments of their day. Our mission, Food with a purpose, builds on our strong more than 130-year heritage, consumer first approach and innovations to create the sustainable food solutions of the future. With our dedicated team of approximately 5,000 professionals, we focus on fast-moving consumer goods and our direct-to-consumer business in Northern Europe, and beyond with exports to more than 40 countries. Fazer's operations comply with its Code of Conduct that is based on the Group's values and the UN Global Compact. In 2023, Fazer Group had net sales of 1.200 million euros.
Northern Magic. Made Real.
