Associate Director, Business Cycle and Strategy - Glob…

As Associate Director, you will shape the global finance agenda for Global Supply Chain and Global Procurement, driving strategic planning, forecasting, and analytics. You partner with function leaders to turn enterprise priorities into multi-year initiatives that create long-term value. You’ll standardize and automate planning and reporting, delivering executive-ready insights and scenario analysis. You operate as a trusted strategic advisor, elevating analytical excellence and decision quality across the functions.

• Design and run global procurement and supply chain finance routines linking long-term strategy with annual planning and forecasting
• Establish calendars, templates, governance, and processes to align global and regional teams
• Deliver strategic insights connecting procurement and supply chain outcomes with financial impact
• Own analytics for savings, productivity, inventory, service levels, working capital, and risks; provide actionable recommendations
• Standardize analytics and business cycle processes, partnering with Digital/Data and Finance transformation to automate data flows
• Coordinate cross-functionally across Global Procurement, Global Supply Chain, Region Finance teams, FP&A, and Data/BI to align KPIs and priorities
• Build and execute a multi-year transformation roadmap for capability building, tools, data models, and governance

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field; MBA/Master’s preferred
• 10+ years of relevant finance experience; procurement/supply chain FP&A or transformation experience preferred
• Strong analytical skills: financial modeling, scenario analysis, performance management
• Proven ability to standardize processes across complex, multi-stakeholder environments
• Executive presence and ability to communicate complex topics to C-suite
• Advanced Excel and PowerPoint; experience with ERP systems (SAP) and BI tools (Power BI/Tableau) preferred
• Comfortable working under pressure with a practical, ownership-oriented mindset

• Strong communication and storytelling abilities
• Strategic partnership and cross-functional collaboration
• Analytical rigor with proactive problem-solving
• Financial modeling
• Scenario/sensitivity analysis
• Excel