EMEA Supply Chain Finance Director 

Reporting to the EMEA Supply Chain Finance Director, the Finance Director, EMEA Consumer Supply Chain will act as a strategic Finance Business Partner to the EMEA Consumer Supply Chain Director. This role will provide proactive, forward-looking financial and operational insights to support improved decision-making, drive business performance, and enable the successful delivery of strategic supply chain initiatives.

The EMEA Consumer Supply Chain includes manufacturing operations across Poland, France, and Italy, as well as EMEA Consumer Distribution activities managed through a combination of McCormick-owned warehouses and third-party logistics providers.

This position requires strong partnership with senior Supply Chain stakeholders and close collaboration with Finance, Commercial, and cross-functional teams. The role will provide clear financial insight to senior management, enabling effective decisions related to profitability, cost management, capital investment, operational efficiency, and long-term business performance.

Responsibilities

Financial Performance Management

• Monitor and drive financial performance by providing clear commentary and insight into month-end results.

• Support business ownership of financial performance by helping Supply Chain leaders understand key drivers, risks, opportunities, and required actions.

• Review management reports, identify key trends and insights, and present findings to senior stakeholders.

• Provide financial analysis and recommendations to support improved profitability, cost control, and operational decision-making.

• Translate financial results into practical business insights that support both short-term performance and long-term strategic objectives.

Budgeting, Forecasting and Strategic Planning

• Lead and facilitate the budgeting and forecasting process for relevant Supply Chain areas.

• Partner with Supply Chain leaders to review, challenge, and finalize factory, freight, distribution, and network plans, budgets, and forecasts.

• Ensure business assumptions are accurate, realistic, clearly understood, and owned by the relevant stakeholders.

• Support strategic planning processes by ensuring operational resource plans are aligned with commercial strategies and overall business objectives.

• Oversee business modelling, scenario analysis, and financial evaluation of key initiatives, presenting outcomes and recommendations to senior leadership.

Factory, Distribution and Network Performance

• Provide financial leadership and insight across factory performance, freight, distribution, warehousing, and supply chain network activities.

• Assess operational performance against business strategy and recommend actions to improve financial and operational results.

• Partner with Supply Chain teams to identify cost improvement, productivity, and network optimization opportunities.

• Validate financial impacts and ensure proposed savings are achievable, measurable, and sustainable.

• Support inventory management initiatives to improve working capital and cash flow.

Investment, Capital and Business Case Support

• Evaluate key investment opportunities, assessing financial and operational viability.

• Ensure appropriate sensitivity, risk, and scenario analysis is completed before recommendations are made to senior management.

• Manage the capital asset acquisition process in partnership with the business, ensuring investment proposals are robust, complete, and aligned with corporate requirements.

• Partner with Supply Chain stakeholders to develop and review business cases for new investments, operational changes, and strategic initiatives.

• Provide financial support for the evaluation of business opportunities or operational issues, balancing cost, performance, service, and risk.

Continuous Improvement and Change Delivery

• Support the delivery of cost improvement, productivity, and change initiatives across the business unit.

• Review current processes and identify opportunities to improve efficiency, quality, and effectiveness.

• Provide financial insight to support decision-making on operational changes, transformation projects, and performance improvement initiatives.

• Act as a constructive challenger to the business, ensuring decisions are supported by sound financial analysis and aligned with strategic priorities.

Leadership and Team Development

• Provide strong technical and functional leadership to the Finance team, setting clear priorities, goals, and expectations.

• Manage, motivate, coach, and develop team members to provide effective, value-adding support to the business.

• Ensure the team is appropriately resourced and developed to meet current and future business needs.

• Support development and succession planning within the team.

• Provide regular performance feedback and oversee individual development and training plans.

• Recognize strong performance and remove barriers that prevent the team from achieving its objectives.

Candidate Profile

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business, Economics, or a related discipline.

• Proven experience in senior Supply Chain Finance, Operations Finance, or related finance leadership roles.

• Experience within FMCG, consumer goods, manufacturing, or a similarly complex operational environment is preferred.

• Strong understanding of supply chain operations, including manufacturing, freight, distribution, warehousing, cost management, and inventory.

• Experience supporting the preparation of senior leadership or Board-level presentations.

• Advanced Excel skills.

• Strong technical finance expertise combined with sound commercial and operational business acumen.

• Highly developed analytical skills, with the ability to interpret complex data, identify key insights, and present recommendations clearly and concisely.

• Proven ability to communicate with, influence, and constructively challenge senior stakeholders across functions.

• Demonstrated ability to build and sustain trusted relationships with senior leaders and business partners.

• Strong prioritization skills, with the ability to focus on activities that create the greatest business impact.

• Ability to solve complex problems quickly, even when working with limited information.

• High level of ownership, accountability, and personal responsibility for decisions, recommendations, and outcomes.

• Proven ability to lead, develop, and manage high-performing teams.

• Fluent English language skills.

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First consideration will be given to employees who have been displaced from their jobs for positions with the same grade or lower. If there are no qualified candidates, all other employees will then be considered. No displaced employee will receive preferential consideration for a promotional opportunity.

McCormick may recruit external candidates concurrently in order to expedite the recruitment process. Qualified internal candidates submitting bids within the first ten (10) days of the job being posted will be considered before external candidates. Internal bids received after the tenth (10th) day will be considered along with external candidates.

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