Junior Marketing Controller

Beiersdorf

Your Tasks

• Provide data consolidation, analyses, simulations, and insights to the Marketing Controller and local marketing teams
• Support the tracking of financial performance and defined KPIs, highlighting deviations from plan/forecast and providing, with the marketing teams, an objective viewpoint on the business situation and initiating countermeasures.
• Assist in preparing financial business cases for innovations, identifying white space entry and other business opportunities and support with business cases or investment evaluations, and other marketing-related processes
• Drive the assortment review process to ensure maximum possible sales are delivered through a minimum possible portfolio of products to meet consumer needs
• Prepare and analyse Category SOI (NGS-MII) as well as gap analysis YTD vs. Plan/Forecast and previous years
• Ensure data quality in BASE, marketing budget tracking tool, and use it as a single source of marketing budget steering
• Ensure the hygiene of the marketing budget booking, including but not limited to reclassify the wrong booking and educate the demand owners
• Prepare closing activities e.g., monthly/quarterly/yearly accruals & provisions, consumption & release tracking for Marketing Budgeting spends
• Prepare monthly category business reviews (Net Sales, Gross Margin, Sales & Margin Driver) with focus on YTD & YTG performance vs Forecast
• Support initiatives for process standardization and digitalization with regards to processes, templates, reports, and dashboards
• Assist with all Plan/Forecast submissions required from marketing controlling unit e.g., key new product initiative (Net Sales, Gross Margin, Marketing Budget), relaunches, marketing budget plan or any others required in the system (TM1)