Danone
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danone.com
Job details:
About Danone Group:
Mission: Bringing Health through Food to as Many people as Possible
Danone is a global leader in food and beverages, focusing on Essential Dairy and Plant-based products, Waters, and Specialized Nutrition. Our mission is to bring health through food to as many people as possible by creating nutritious products, raising awareness about healthy eating and drinking habits, and conducting our business sustainably.
Danone’s dual focus on commercial performance and societal responsibility, combined with an ongoing commitment to innovation and the strengthening of its health-oriented brands, has resulted in strong performance worldwide. With nearly 90,000 employees and products sold in over 120 markets, Danone has generated more than €27 billion in sales annually.
More information can be found at www.danone.com.
About Danone India:
India is among the countries in the Asia Pacific zone wherein Danone has its presence. Danone operates in India as Nutricia International Pvt. Ltd, focusing on nutrition with a range of products catering to pregnant mothers, infants, young children as well as adults. These products are manufactured in India and sold nationally under recognized brands such as Aptamil, Dexolac, Nusobee, and Protinex. Danone employs over 1,000 individuals across India and generates a turnover exceeding €150 million. The company's head office is in Mumbai, Maharashtra, with a manufacturing facility situated in Lalru, Punjab.
More information can be found at https://www.danone.in/
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Role and Responsibilities:
Manufacturing Controller – Operations Finance leads planning process for manufacturing (One own factory in Lalru and Four 3PM/copackers across the country) & fresh milk (costs assumptions & productivity) and monitors performance with relevant KPIs. The incumbent acts as a business partner who challenges resource/costs allocation across manufacturing teams, analyses manufacturing cost performance (Internal & External), monitors monthly closing, budget/rolling forecasts, reviews and benchmarks manufacturing cost vs other factories / co-packers within Danone network and external competition and supports operations unit leaders.
- Monitor productivity projects, highlighting link between cost drivers and financials, and drive benchmark discussions.
- Optimize return on investment for CAPEX projects by building robust business cases.
- Ensure reliability of manufacturing standard costs for all SKUs and track accurately SKU-wise actual costs with analysis of cost driver impacts.
- Oversee Industrial costs and milk cost, productivity and key industrial cost drivers
- Responsible for 3PM / co-packer costs, productivity and key cost drivers including sourcing costs for co-packer supplies
- Co-lead productivity projects & portfolio review and validations
- Support Industrial (own plant and 3PM) and milk costing performance through ad hoc analysis and recommendations including CAPEX ROI
- Support procurement costs of 3PM / co-packer through detailed analysis of cost sheets including benchmarking of costs and make recommendations for commercial terms with 3PM / co-packers
- Animate internal and external benchmarks discussions about manufacturing costs
- Establish Group reporting of items in scope
- Maintain local Business Intelligence tools updated on items in scope
- Review and approve industrial contracts as per defined policy
- Ensure compliance of accounting, audits and internal control rules
- Support Business Process owners and adequate ownership of controls and support internal control team during testing.
Candidate Profile and Attributes
- Education: CMA with 15+ years’ experience / CA with 10+ years’ experience
- Relevant work experience: FMCG / Foods / Pharma industries in a manufacturing setup
- Tools: Working knowledge of SAP is a must. Exposure to standard costing methods in SAP and Power BI will be an added advantage.
- High results orientation, Assertiveness, Influencing without Authority and Stakeholder management skills
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