Head of Finance / Finance Manager - A Key Role in Orkla Health's Growth

Do you want to use your financial expertise to drive growth and make a meaningful impact on health on a global scale? Orkla Health is now looking for a Finance Manager for the business unit Food Supplements.
The Food Supplements Business Unit is a key growth driver, requiring a Finance Manager to deliver end-to-end category responsibility globally. This role partners with the Business Unit Leader to translate financial data into actionable insights, improving results across all markets.

The role oversees the Business Unit and categories' P&L by consolidating sales, margin, and cost information, and supports strategic planning, budgeting, forecasting, and pricing decisions. As part of the Business Performance function, the Finance Manager is instrumental in identifying risks, investigating performance drivers, and enabling corrective actions and commercial opportunities. This position will collaborate cross-functionally with commercial, supply chain, and marketing teams and champions data-driven decision-making in a fast-paced, multi-market environment. The role will also have a wider role as part of the CFO-community in driving shared best practices and the performance of Orkla Health as a whole.

The role will report directly to the CFO of Orkla Health.

Key Responsibilities

• Drive performance management and provide strategic financial support for the Food Supplements Business Unit
• Enable informed decision-making and profitable growth across sales channels and markets by delivering actionable financial insights
• Oversee and consolidate BU P&L, ensuring accurate tracking of sales, margins, and costs
• Lead financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and scenario modelling activities for the Business Unit
• Serve as a trusted financial business partner to the Business Unit Lead and the BU Leadership Team, actively supporting BU strategy and company-wide priorities
• Identify risks, investigate performance drivers, and propose corrective actions that support both growth and efficiency goals
• Support innovation process, portfolio optimization, and post-merger integration initiatives with robust financial analysis
• Uphold compliance, financial controls, and ethical standards within all BU activities
• Collaborate cross-functionally with commercial, supply chain, marketing, and central finance stakeholders

Main tasks and projects

• Model financial scenarios and provide recommendations for commercial, operational, and cost initiatives
• Prepare and deliver monthly, quarterly, and ad-hoc reports that drive performance conversations with Business Unit leadership
• Support post-merger integration analysis and facilitate synergy capture within the Business Unit
• Contribute to planning cycles, including budgeting, long-range forecasting, and strategic reviews
• Provide variance analysis and insights, recommending corrective actions where required
• Track, analyze, and report category and brand profitability, supporting the BU Lead in commercial decision-making
• Participate actively in the innovation process, support in development of business cases, and assist in portfolio reviews and SKU rationalization initiatives
• Partner with central finance on projects to harmonize company-wide financial processes and reporting standards
• Develop and review business cases for new product launches, strategic investments, and optimization programs

Experience and Qualifications

• Proven experience leading financial P&L reporting and -analysis within FMCG or Consumer Health sector. Knowledge of the Vitamins, Minerals, and Supplements category is an advantage
• Experience with financial modelling of scenarios, and the ability to provide recommendations for commercial, operational, and cost initiatives and lead the subsequent execution of financial initiatives
• Demonstrated ability to drive business performance across the value chain and commercial areas across multiple categories, in a global organization
• Expertise in consolidating and interpreting sales, margin, and cost data for actionable insight and recommendations
• Strong proficiency in business case development, variance analysis, and supporting innovation or portfolio optimization initiatives
• Fluency in English, and a Master's degree or equivalent is required

Personal Characteristics

• Collaborative team player capable of fostering partnerships across organizational levels and geographies
• Exceptional ability to communicate complex financial topics, influence non-finance stakeholders, and support data-driven decision-making across teams
• Senior presence with "gravitas" to proactively challenge current performance and drive improved financial performance across the full value chain
• Proactive initiative-taking, adaptable to changing priorities in a fast-moving, matrixed organization
• High integrity with focus on compliance, risk management, and continuous process improvement

Location
The role offers a flexible location, provided it is at an Orkla Health office.
Local brand and -market insight is required. Willingness to travel internationally is needed.

Application DeadlineApplications will be reviewed on a rolling basis, and we encourage you to apply as soon as possible, no later than 1 February.

Contact Information
For questions about the position, please contact CFO of Orkla Health Christian Rykke, phone:
+47 90777669, or Global People Partner (HR) Benedikte Mæland, phone: +47 47331809.

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