Marketing & Innovation Finance Business Partner

Maidenhead , United Kingdom
full-time

AI overview

Act as a trusted Finance Business Partner to Marketing, providing clear financial insight to support strategic decision-making and leading financial input into brand plans.

Karo Healthcare, a dynamic and growing personal-care retail company, is all about making smart choices for everyday healthcare. With a wide-ranging portfolio across seven categories including medical products, we own and sell over 80 brands in about 90 countries. Our portfolio includes such brands as E45, Pevaryl, Lamisil, Nutravita, Decubal and many others. Our core belief in empowering people to make intelligent health decisions drives our growth strategy, blending organic expansion and M&A.
Join us at Karo Healthcare on our exciting journey. We're currently looking for a Marketing & Innovation Finance Business Partner for our office in Maidenhead.

What’s in it for you?

  • A visible, high-impact role partnering closely with senior Marketing and Commercial leaders
  • Exposure to innovation, brand strategy, and international markets
  • A fast-moving, entrepreneurial environment where your insights shape decisions
  • Strong opportunities for professional growth in a scaling, international business

What you’ll be doing

  • Act as a trusted Finance Business Partner to Marketing, providing clear financial insight to support strategic decision-making
  • Drive performance analysis, budgeting, forecasting and long-range planning, including pricing, RGM and P&L management
  • Partner on innovation projects, building robust business cases aligned with group strategy and financial targets
  • Help design and apply strong financial gating processes to ensure high-quality innovation decisions
  • Track innovation performance, including cannibalisation and post-launch results
  • Lead financial input into 3-year brand plans, ensuring commercial rigour and actionable insights
  • Own Marketing Mix Modelling analysis and performance tracking
  • Work with Marketing teams to optimise spend, identify efficiencies and drive savings
  • Deliver monthly and quarterly performance analysis, turning data into clear actions
  • Support market performance analysis and ensure insights are shared across local markets
  • Develop and enhance BI solutions to strengthen marketing and commercial insights
  • Contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and ad-hoc business cases and projects

Requirements

  • Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA or equivalent
  • 5+ years’ experience in Finance Business Partnering, ideally within FMCG, Consumer Healthcare or other fast-moving environments
  • Strong commercial and analytical skills with the ability to translate data into action
  • Experience with budgeting, forecasting, scenario analysis and performance management
  • Advanced Excel skills and strong capability with BI and digital analytics tools
  • Comfortable working in a fast-paced, change-driven, hands-on environment
  • Confident communicator, able to influence and challenge stakeholders
  • Fluent in English

Benefits

  • Opportunity to create, grow, and encourage
  • Apart from a competitive salary pack, there are lots of growth opportunities to meet your personal ambitions
  • Flexible schedule, hybrid model with the primary work place in the office, and life-work balance
  • Responsibility for exciting and challenging projects that have a direct, visible impact on our customers and the industry
  • Very positive work environment in a dynamic, international, and motivated team
  • Start-up spirit while being a part of the large international organization with strong values

 

Karo Healthcare has a Diverse & Inclusive environment. We are looking for qualified candidates irrespective of gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, religion, national origin, disability or age.

Perks & Benefits Extracted with AI

  • Flexible Work Hours: Flexible schedule, hybrid model with the primary work place in the office, and life-work balance

Our purpose is to offer smart choices for everyday healthcare and we are passionately working towards realising our vision of Karo becoming a pan-European leader in everyday healthcare. With this ambitious growth strategy, we are constantly scouting for new talents to join our existing dynamic and high-paced Karo team. Embracing diverse perspectives and backgrounds is a part of our identity, and an equal representation of women and men in management positions. If you want to work for a dynamic high-growth company that is flat, non-bureaucratic, and that empowers colleagues to make their own decisions through the trust placed in their capabilities and alignment to our strategic goals and vision – check out our current vacancies.

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