Commercial Business Partner

2 weeks ago


Auckland City, New Zealand Fisher & Paykel Appliances Full time

The Role

Fisher & Paykel is one of New Zealand's best-known brands, a global company with a strong heritage. Our New Zealand origins, curious nature and passion to develop products designed around people are core elements that make us unique. Driven by our brand values of being real, sustainably minded, generous and curious, as a team we take a collaborative approach, have a culture where ideas are heard, and are united in our leading goal to be the world's most human-centred, #1 premium appliance brand.

This opportunity is best suited to a value-adding Commercial Business Partner who has a passion for influencing in a dynamic and fast paced environment. Tasked with providing critical insights and analysis to the NZ Distributor team, you will revel in turning data into business insights to ultimately drive sales performance and cost optimisation.

This is where you come in

We are looking for a goal driven Commercial Business Partner to step into this business partnership role, and be an integral part of the NZ Fisher & Paykel Appliances team (NZ Distributor), requiring an intrinsic understanding of the commercial environment we operate in.

You'll be key in translating financial information into clear direction for our sales and marketing to work with.

So who are you?

You are an experienced analyst, who naturally builds strong working relationships by utilising your business partnering skillset. Working with leaders to drive commercial decision making.

The purpose of the role is to support the NZ Distributor business to achieve our targets and pursue our leading goals. Contributing financial insights and solutions to support business planning, decision making and the execution to lift operational & financial performance. You will help provide the financial information and analytical insights which the business requires to operate effectively, efficiently & in a timely manner.

You will have demonstrated experience in a Commercial Analyst or Business Partnering role in a fast-paced, commercial environment. Preferred experience in Distributor or Consumer Goods retail focused environment of a medium to large organisation.

You’re comfortable taking ownership for the forecast and budgeting cycles and their interface into the strategic planning process. As well as bringing the technical knowhow, it is vital that you can communicate, influence and effectively partner with people at all levels of the organisation.

Familiarity with building and running PowerBI reports or similar is advantageous. You will utilise these on a frequent basis to present data analysis to the sales team and key stakeholders.

Technical Skills
- Strong financial understanding and analytical skills.
- Ability to identify opportunities to improve business performance.
- Strong commercial acumen and experience in translating financial results into commercial and operational performance.
- Strong analytical skills, especially making meaning of diverse data to highlight key components of over / under achievement vs plan, identifying trends and insights.
- Systems skills and knowledge of large ERP systems (JDE, Salesforce).
- A high level of accuracy is required as is a keen eye and attention to detail.

What we offer

We can give you the rare opportunity to move into a large, complex global organisation headquartered in NZ, where you will gain wide exposure across the business. This role has diverse and exciting challenges and the chance to continually learn and develop.

Along with a competitive salary, flexible working, ongoing development and excellent growth and progression opportunities, as a valued member of our team you’ll enjoy generous discounts on Fisher & Paykel and Haier products, life & disability insurance, discounted medical cover, access to our superannuation scheme, access to our leading Whanau/Family leave offering, our subsidised staff café, and free car parking when you are on-site.

All this, coupled with great leadership and backed by a world leading heritage brand that is consistently ranked as one of New Zealand’s most Trusted Brandsyear after year.

From the grandest of ideas to the smallest of details, every day we're turning our passion into performance and improving life through good design.

Here at Fisher & Paykel we're passionate about our customers and we care about the details. It's this passion that inspires us towards reaching our goal - to become the most human-centred appliance brand in the world.

Fisher & Paykel is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, national or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, or other characteristics protected by law.



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