Commercial Controller - Nutrition

We are Reckitt

Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.

​Finance​

Our Finance team is not just another department; we're strategic partners and catalysts for change, who use our expertise to drive sustainable growth and create and protect value for Reckitt. With a strong emphasis on cross-functional collaboration and partnership, our inclusive, diverse and energised team breaks down traditional barriers, enabling you to thrive in a dynamic environment where you and your ideas matter. From leveraging insights and analysis to make data-driven decisions - to spearheading sustainable business practices that contribute to consistent and reliable business growth - we are unwaveringly passionate about making a meaningful impact, and always doing the right thing.

About the role

The Commercial Controller is a critical finance leadership role responsible for shaping the financial and commercial success of the business.
As a trusted advisor and strategic partner to the Country Leadership Team, the Commercial Controller provides financial leadership across commercial strategy, business planning, investment decisions, profitability management, and performance optimization. The role serves as the financial co-pilot to the business, ensuring that growth ambitions are translated into sustainable value creation and superior financial results.

Working closely with Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Medical, Regulatory, and other functional leaders, the Commercial Controller drives fact-based decision making, proactively identifies risks and opportunities, and ensures resources are deployed toward the highest-return opportunities.
Beyond managing end to end business performance lifecycle (Planning & Forecasting), the Commercial Controller is the guardian of financial stewardship, ensuring robust governance, strong controls, ethical decision making, and compliance with internal policies and external regulations.

The role also leads and develops a high-performing Commercial Finance team, building organizational capability and embedding a culture of accountability, ownership, and value creation.

Your responsibilities

Strategic Business Partnering
•    Act as a strategic advisor to the Country Leadership Team, providing financial insights that shape business strategy and long-term growth plans.
•    Influence critical business decisions by bringing objective financial and commercial perspectives to strategic discussions.
•    Partner with Sales, Marketing, Medical, Supply Chain and other functional leaders to evaluate growth opportunities, resource allocation, and business priorities.
•    Drive a culture of financial accountability and value creation across the organization.
•    Challenge assumptions, identify alternatives, and ensure decisions are supported by robust financial rationale.

Business Performance Leadership
•    Lead end-to-end performance management processes to drive achievement of revenue, profit, cash flow and market objectives.
•    Provide meaningful insights into business performance, highlighting key drivers, trends, risks and opportunities.
•    Establish a forward-looking approach to performance management through predictive analysis and scenario modelling.
•    Ensure financial and operational KPIs are translated into actionable business plans.
•    Facilitate regular business reviews with senior stakeholders and leadership teams.

Planning, Forecasting & Business Steering
•    Own the annual budget, rolling forecasts, strategic planning and long-range planning processes.
•    Drive cross-functional alignment throughout planning cycles, ensuring assumptions are robust and commercially grounded.
•    Lead scenario planning and sensitivity analysis to support informed decision making in dynamic market conditions.
•    Continuously improve forecast accuracy through disciplined performance tracking and proactive intervention.
•    Provide visibility and transparency around business outlook, risks and mitigation plans.

Commercial Investment Governance
•    Lead the evaluation and governance of commercial investments, ensuring optimal allocation of resources.
•    Assess marketing spend, trade investments, innovation projects, customer programs and strategic initiatives through a rigorous ROI framework.
•    Ensure investment decisions are aligned with business objectives and shareholder value creation.
•    Conduct post-investment reviews and capture learnings to improve future investment effectiveness.
•    Build compelling business cases to support growth initiatives, new product launches and transformational projects.

Gross Margin & Profitability Management
•    Drive sustainable gross margin improvement through pricing strategy, portfolio optimization, productivity initiatives and commercial excellence.
•    Partner with commercial and supply teams to identify opportunities to improve profitability and strengthen competitive positioning.
•    Support revenue growth management initiatives including pricing, mix optimization, promotional effectiveness and portfolio decisions.
•    Evaluate customer, channel and product profitability to support strategic resource allocation.
•    Monitor performance against profitability targets and drive corrective actions where required.

Risk Management & Financial Stewardship
•    Proactively identify emerging business risks and develop mitigation strategies.
•    Ensure compliance with accounting standards, corporate policies, controls and regulatory requirements.
•    Maintain the highest standards of financial integrity, transparency and governance.
•    Safeguard company assets while supporting a business-focused and growth-oriented culture.
•    Champion ethical decision making and ensure the organization consistently operates with the highest standards of integrity.

 

The experience we're looking for

Education
•    Bachelor's Degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business Administration or related discipline.
•    MBA, CPA, CA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent professional qualification preferred.

Experiences
•    10-15+ years of progressive finance experience with significant exposure to Commercial Finance, FP&A, Finance Business Partnering or Business Controlling.
•    Proven experience within FMCG, Nutrition, Consumer Healthcare, Pharmaceutical or similarly fast-paced commercial environments.
•    Strong track record of influencing senior stakeholders and driving commercial decision making.
•    Experience leading annual planning, forecasting and business performance management processes.
•    Demonstrated success in investment governance, profitability improvement, pricing strategy and commercial performance optimization.
•    Experience leading and developing high-performing teams.

Critical leadership Competencies 
Strategic Thinking
•    Connects financial insights with business strategy.
•    Anticipates future opportunities and risks.
•    Focuses on long-term value creation.
Commercial Acumen
•    Deep understanding of market dynamics, customers, brands and growth drivers.
•    Strong appreciation of the balance between growth and profitability.
Business Partnering & Influence
•    Builds credibility and trust with senior leaders.
•    Challenges constructively and influences without authority.
•    Drives alignment across diverse stakeholder groups.
Financial & Analytical Excellence
•    Exceptional analytical capabilities.
•    Strong financial modelling and decision support skills.
•    Converts complex information into clear business recommendations.
Leadership
•    Inspires and develops high-performing teams.
•    Creates an environment of accountability, ownership and continuous improvement.
•    Demonstrates resilience and agility in a rapidly changing environment.
Stewardship & Integrity
•    Upholds the highest standards of governance and ethics.
•    Balances commercial ambition with financial discipline.
•    Serves as a trusted guardian of the organization's financial health.

The skills for success

Business accumen, Budgeting & Forecasting, Productivity Management, Project Management, Improve Business Processes, Accounting Principles, Financial Reporting, Finance Analysis and Reporting, Stakeholder Engagement and Influence, Strategic Thinking.

What we offer

With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short-term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

Equality

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.