Global Category Finance Manager – Balanced Choices

Category Finance

The team’s defined purpose is to “partner on performance and creating value across our

brands and growth pillars – today and tomorrow” by supporting our mission to Lead &

Grow the category, and deliver incremental growth in business performance.

This is achieved through:

• Being invaluable finance business partners to our brands and category leaders
• Owning the financial components of 1YP/10YP development for the category, in

partnership with FP&A and Growth Group

• Partnering with Supply/Innovation on key 3YP initiatives
• Challenging and supporting long-term strategic planning (5/10YP)
• Connecting the organization around brand performance and growth drivers

Purpose

This role will act as a strategic business partner, connecting brand strategy, market

dynamics and opportunities, consumer and sales data, and financial performance to

identify and drive growth opportunities and translate them into clear business decisions.

The Global Category Finance Manager participates in category and brand oriented

initiatives through the organization – requiring collaboration with Global Marketing,

Innovation, Supply, Commercial Zone teams, and other functional groups within AB In-

Bev who play active roles in shaping brand performance

• Partner with brand teams to craft plans for delivering key outcomes in both

areas of current category/brand performance and future strategic development

• Provide decision support, analytics, and scenario modeling for evaluating

opportunities and options in service of marketing mission to “deliver a step

change in effectives of growth drivers”

• The role reports to the Global Director, Balanced Choices

Complexity

This is a highly visible, hands-on role requiring ownership, speed, strong judgment, and

the ability to influence and mobilize teams across multiple countries and functions.

• Central to this role is the ability to build and sustain strong working relationships

throughout the organization – including the ability to influence and build

alignment across functions and levels/bands

• The need for high quality strategic thinking and attention to detail is heightened

through the requirement to work alongside senior leadership

•  The ability to build and promote strategic plans through the organization benefits

from experience in undertaking strategic analysis and/or commercial experience

of deploying strategies in a leadership role within a business unit

• Project decision support for major strategic/organization initiatives
• Drive current brand/category performance processes to unlock deep insights into

performance

•  Take learnings from ABI tools/routines and external analysis to action
• Maintaining brand/category strategies within an overall AB In-Bev portfolio

strategy

• Embed strategic thinking and a long term vision creation to improve decision

making on short-term investments

 Translating complex market, consumer, commercial, and financial data into clear

recommendations and actionable business decisions.

•  Build annual plans (1YP) within established business processes
• Build 5-10Y plans, with P&L development and forecasting expertise
• S&M investment strategy and prioritization
•  Contractor management with third party partners
• Manage (1) direct report.

•  FMCG/CPG Financial Business partnering and strategic planning
• Minimum 8 years’ experience in roles of increasing seniority with similar

responsibility and accountability

• Senior leadership experience, including *3+ years working with global brands*.
• Strong leadership skills and ability to engage and manage senior stakeholders

across the organization

• Effective communication, presentation, and facilitation skills are essential
• Demonstrated ability in strategic and financial analysis, driving insights to action,

development of models and building presentations

• Ability to manage through ambiguity
• Proven ability to model business growth using financial, commercial, and market

data and to challenge existing business assumptions.

• Strategy and project management skills
• Comfort and demonstrated expertise in operating in a highly matrixed

organization

• Consulting or consumer goods experience preferred
• Passion for the beverage alcohol industry/Non-alcoholic category a plus
• Fluent English. Fluency in Portuguese or Spanish a strong asset.
•  ⁠Remote position (EST/CT time zone, proximity to Int’l airport) with availability for

international travel (30%) and regular office visits as role necessitates.

Outcomes

The successful candidate will combine the mindset of a Brand Finance leader, business

strategist, and analytics-driven decision maker — someone who understands where the

business is today, identifies where the greatest opportunities are, and builds the

financial and strategic case for how to capture them.

The successful candidate will connect global frameworks and strategic priorities to

Balanced Choices platforms, identifying opportunities across markets and brands.

Modelo de contratação: PJ

Tipo de CNPJ/Empresa: ME (microempresa) ou LTDA (Empresa de Responsabilidade Limitada)

Cachê: Valor fixo em Nota Fiscal

Com plano abrangente de benefícios:

💻 Notebook da empresa para quem está em SP

🤑13ª nota no ano;

🛫 Férias de 30 dias + 1/3 (benefício adquirido após 1 ano de contrato);

🏥 Assistência Médica SulAmérica (Coparticipação apenas se utilizar)

💚Seguro de Vida;

💳 VR de R$ 50,00/dia útil; (Cartão Flash; Crédito/Débito; podendo utilizar em redes com CNPJ de food (Exemplo: Restaurante;Mercado e Aplicativos)

📴 Crédito extra no dia do aniversário no cartão flash;

🦷 Assistência Odontológica SulAmérica - Plano opcional (Caso opte pelo beneficio, é descontado todo mês, mesmo que não utilize)

🏋🏻Incentivo a prática de exercício físico - TotalPass

📚 Incentivo a educação - Reembolso mensal de R$ 200,00 para cursos e treinamentos (Valido a partir de: após 6 meses de contrato, participação na avaliação de performance, e com o plano de desenvolvimento individual ativo)