Senior Sales Controller Europe

Main purpose of this role is to drive, improve and develop all sales controlling related processes, systems, and projects within Ardagh Glass Packaging – Europe. This does include reporting and analysis as well as planning, but also support of internal customers and product costing related activities.

Beside the above also system improvements, automatizations in e.g. SAP-COPA, BW, SAC as well as volume analysis, coordination / steering in Intercompany Sales and Purchases are part of this role.

Responsibilities

The main responsibilities of this role include, but are not limited to the following:

• Active collaboration and cooperation within and outside of AGP-E Finance and Sales Teams.
• Ensure strong link to production and operations reporting.
• Ensure correct and timely analysis and reporting (daily, monthly, quarterly, yearly).
• Participate in various ad-hoc tasks as per business requirement. / key contact for European Sales Team
• Coordinate and support sales volume planning (system, valuation, analysis) together with regional Sales-Teams.
• Pro-actively seek and spot areas for overall improvements in processes, systems and reporting what will improve cross-functional consistency and understanding.
• Taking active part in prioritization of projects in areas mentioned above.
• Key role in yearly product costing and its analysis (strong team for product costing already established).
• Support outside the box thinking, and innovation/change mind set.
• Drive ‘SAP Best Practice’, helping to align working practices across the AGP-E locations by standardizing procedures and improving efficiency within SAP.
• Coordinate / ensure relevant SOX-controls are performed in time.
• Travel up to 25 – 30% is part of this role, depending on business requirements.

Offer

• An excellent salary and a profit-dependent bonus
• Outstanding secondary employment conditions such as a travel allowance, pension.
• Training opportunities and ample possibilities for self-development and career advancement.
• A pleasant working environment, collaboration with enjoyable colleagues in an international company, and plenty of challenges and variety.
• A flexible work schedule, with 2 days in the office and 3 days working remotely. => Policy says other way around!

Education & Training

• Master or University degree in finance or controlling or similar

Experience

• Minimum of 10 years experience with a minimum of 5 years in a manufacturing business
• Ability to plan, think strategically and work independently as well as self-driven, but target based
• Good people skills
• Team player with the ability to work collaboratively and effectively across the organization
• Strong analytical skills
• Strong IT/System (SAP, BW, SAC, PowerBI, MS-Office) competency

Competencies & skills

• Excellent written and verbal local (Dutch, Danish, Swedish, Polish or German) and English communication skills.
• Flexible
• The ability to organize and prioritize workload.
• Results focused: Capability in achieving performance improvement and experience leading cultural change.
• Sound people skills with the ability to establish and build on working relationships effectively.
• Accuracy and attention to detail.
• Proactive, detail oriented but with controller’s mind set.
• Effective problem-solving skills.
• Ability to analyses data and trends and take the right conclusions.
• Motivation skills.
• Organized personality (structured approach).
• Skilled use of business IT applications (MS office, data base systems, SAP,)

About Ardagh Group

Ardagh Group is a global leader in glass and metal packaging solutions, producing packaging for the world’s leading brands. We trace our roots all the way back to the Irish Glass Bottle Company, founded in 1932. Since then, we have grown rapidly to a team of more than 20,000 people with revenues of almost $10 billion. Today we have a presence across Europe, Africa and the Americas.

• Did you know that Ardagh produce many of the beverage cans and bottles you drink your favorite beverages from?
• Did you know we produce glass and metal packaging which are permanent materials, meaning they can be infinitely recycled without any loss of quality?
• Did you know we produce more than 160 million containers per day?

Ardagh is passionate about sustainability and have a reputation for innovation. We push the boundaries of what’s possible, pioneering new production methods, new design techniques and new ways to recycle and save energy. Our aim is to reduce any negative environmental impact whilst remaining economically sustainable and socially responsible.

We believe that the success of our business depends on the success of our people. We strive to create working environments where our employees feel valued, can work to their full potential, and where their achievements are celebrated.

Here at Ardagh, we offer exciting and rewarding opportunities for talented and creative people. If you have ambition and want to make an impact with your career, come and join our team, you’ll enjoy the journey! For more information about our careers or click here for more information about Ardagh Group.

Interested?

If you are interested in this position, please express your interest by applying with your resume and an introduction letter.

If you have any questions, please contact Tim de Leeuw, Recruitment Partner:  +31 6 11482751 or tim.de-leeuw@ardaghgroup.com