Head of Finance, Wearables

**Summary**:
**Salary**:
Competitive

Team:
Finance

**Location**:
United Kingdom - Malmesbury Office

**About the role**:
As our Head of Finance, Wearables, you will provide finance leadership to the Wearables Category. Dyson organises its business into product Categories, which are responsible for a global Category Profit & Loss Statement (P&L). This is a critical business partnering role, influencing decision making at RDD, Operations & Category team, Executive Committee and Board Level. You will work directly with the Wearables Category Director and their team to plan, control and optimise the global Category P&L performance.

The overall objective of the role is to act as a key financial, commercial, and strategic business partner to the Wearables Category Director, and their team. This will include:

- Leading a financial agenda that balances short
- and medium-term profit and cash delivery with long term sustainable growth and brand health.
- Establishing financial performance by using analytical capability that provides category and market intelligence.
- Providing insight on business health by devising and holding the business to key financial and non-financial performance measures.
- Giving clarity and insight into the category outlook by leading short, medium and long-term business planning.
- Supporting ongoing product development with NPD evaluations and milestone governance.
- Supporting the commercial development of the category by bringing a clear financial lens to ranging, pricing and product decisions and by driving transparency in volume performance, margin management, Brand Building Investment (BBI) effectiveness and cost control.
- Optimising the business model, including by internally and externally benchmarking category and market performance.
- Financial and working capital management through the sales and operational planning forums, governing resource allocation, sponsoring cost initiatives (including product cost, capex, brand building and central costs) and driving a culture of generating strong financial returns and value for money.

You will support category performance management from market reviews through to Executive and Board reporting:

- Accountability across markets, together with Commercial and RDD.
- Market benchmarking, product/channel/promotional/market mix management.
- Develop and manage timely and relevant reporting, analysis and KPI measures (financial and non-financial).

You will lead BBI and promo effectiveness:

- Manage financial returns to maximise Return on Investment (ROI)
- Optimise product and infrastructure building investment.
- Support effective promotional strategy.

You will support product lifecycle management:

- Manage portfolio analysis and effectiveness, SKU proliferation, range transitioning, product end of life.
- Manage investment appraisal, milestones’ governance, post investment review, and support launch scenario planning.

You will support sales and operational planning processes:

- Oversee category demand, supply and capacity planning and ensure they are aligned with financial forecasts.
- Support product allocation prioritisation and working capital management.

And you will support category strategy and business planning:

- Range planning, pricing, product strategy.
- Go To Market, business model development, and market strategy.
- Cost optimisation across product, capex and operational costs.
- Direct and indirect responsibility for managing the work and development of Finance Managers/ Analysts supporting Commercial and RDD teams.

**About you**:

- Qualified accountant with demonstrable heavyweight commercial post-qualified experience.
- Experience with premium consumer and/or technology businesses.
- Strong communication and leadership skills.
- High intellect and integrity.
- High gravitas and personal impact.
- Highly commercial with excellent strategic instincts.
- Able to overcome functional and market boundaries to gain consensus and drive change.
- Able to influence senior stakeholders.
- Able to manage complexity and differing priorities.
- Able to overcome preconceptions and entrenched beliefs.
- Able to develop, assess and advocate strategic options.
- Credible across a multi-functional organisation.

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