General Mills – Finance Manager, Cereal – Mississauga, ON

Company: General Mills

Location: Mississauga, ON

Expected salary:

Job date: Sun, 27 Apr 2025 00:22:14 GMT

Job description: Job Description:Position Overview
The Brand Finance Manager, Cereal is accountable for the financial management, P&L oversight, and partnership with our Business Units – cross-functional teams responsible for developing and executing brand strategy to deliver sustainable, profitable growth. The role requires holistic P&L management while championing sustainable, profitable growth partnerships applying short- and long-term mindsets. The role as co-pilot requires agility and strong prioritization, managing monthly estimates and annual planning cycles, while providing thought leadership to help build and execute strategic plans. The right candidate will build a holistic understanding of internal P&L performance with an emphasis on the effectiveness of volume/mix choices, product portfolio, including new product launches and discontinuations, customer, consumer, and supply chain investments to support the health of the business. The role offers great development opportunities for career growth, manages two direct reports, and reports to the Sr Finance Manager.Role Accountabilities:

  • Responsible for partnering to lead Monthly Business Reviews to review the Financial Forecast, Key External Leading & Lagging Indicators, an Actionable R&O, as well as influencing key business hot topics requiring discussion.
  • Ability to proactively set priorities for self & team while remaining agile in an executional environment to ensure standard processes are adhered to while creating space for ad hoc projects and instilling a forward-looking mindset for the total team objectives.
  • Champions a strong controls mindset across the cross-functional team environment, ensures strong forecast accuracy, and effective investment choices.
  • Practices strong communication and partnerships within the broader finance organization to ensure consistency across common priorities & objectives while continuously improving through standardization initiatives.
  • Operate as the financial leader to inspire broader cross-functional teams to support delivering common objectives.
  • Manage & coach 2 direct reports for strong performance results and individual career development.

Our people are at the heart of what makes General Mills great – it’s why people join and stay. When we connect, co-create, collaborate, and celebrate together, it strengthens our relationships and increases trust. To Win Together, we need to be together, physically and virtually. To do that effectively, we need to think about connecting with intentionality – the moments both big and small, in-person, virtual, and hybrid.Given that collaboration is critical to the success of our team members, our teams, and our business, the expectation for this role will be to work in the office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays each week. Our policy allows flexibility for the reality of business and personal schedules. Monday and Friday are flexible regarding your work location.Leadership Competencies:Business Partnership: Leads the business team in identifying and pursuing opportunities that maximize shareholder value; influences across boundaries to develop and execute long-term strategies; drives sound/financial business decisions that balance internal P&L performance while remaining competitively externally.Business Process and Analytics: Develops value-added insights, processes, reporting and analysis that drive business results; proficient in General Mills systems.Technical/Financial Acumen: Demonstrates technical/financial knowledge in a value-added way; understands, practices, and propagates proper accounting, policy compliance, and reporting while ensuring a strong control environment.Ability to Create Flexible Environment: Ability to lead through ambiguity with agility in a dynamic and complex environment to support effective ways of delivering goals for the team.Energizes and Develops People: Inspires and motivates, collaborates across boundaries, develops people, leverages teamwork, core strengths and diversity.Delivers Outstanding Results: sets aggressive goals and priorities, delivers on short and long-term commitments, makes timely high-quality decisions, adds superior expertise.Integrity: Engenders trust and credibility at all levels, demonstrates unquestionable integrity, and communicates openly and directly.REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • A university degree in Finance or Business Administration
  • Agile, organized, and able to manage and prioritize changing workload for self & teams.
  • Proven ability to build trusting relationships at all levels and across all functions; ability to effectively communicate and influence all levels across the organization.
  • Strong track record of operating with gold-standard finance partnerships with an ability to influence senior leaders on the direction of the business.
  • The ability to synthesize complex numerical data into simple and attainable solutions.
  • Experience in a dynamic commercial role, with in depth understanding of key P&L levers.

PREFERRED QUALFICATIONS

  • Prior experience partnering with cross functional teams
  • 5+ years of relevant experience finance experience in CPG

General Mills is committed to Employment Equity and encourages applications from all qualified candidates. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates with disabilities taking part in all aspects of the recruitment and selection processInternational relocation or international remote working arrangements (outside of Canada) will not be considered.

General Mills – Associate Brand Manager, Adult Cereal – Canada – Mississauga, ON

Company: General Mills

Location: Mississauga, ON

Expected salary:

Job date: Wed, 23 Apr 2025 01:56:11 GMT

Job description: Job Description:General Mills is seeking a highly motivated and results-oriented Associate Brand Manager to drive the strategic growth of our Adult Cereals portfolio, including Canada Gem, Oatmeal Crisp (the biggest brand in the Adult category and the 3rd biggest in the General Mills Cereal portfolio). This role offers a unique opportunity to serve as a general manager, owning the P&L and driving significant financial growth, market share expansion, and consumer excitement. You will be instrumental in shaping the future of these established brands.KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

  • Develop and execute comprehensive, data-driven brand strategies that deliver sustainable market share growth and meet revenue and profit targets.
  • Lead the execution of short and long-term brand plans, including innovation, Holistic Margin Management, brand renovation, Strategic Revenue Management, and packaging design to achieve volume and financial goals
  • Build and nurture strong collaborative relationships with cross-functional partners (e.g., Sales, Marketing, R&D, Finance) to develop and implement integrated brand strategies
  • Partner closely with US counterparts to leverage best practices, inform long-term brand strategy and execute shared projects.
  • Proactively identify and capitalize on market opportunities, leveraging data-driven insights to inform strategic decision-making.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

  • Bachelor’s degree in Marketing, Business, or a related field.
  • 2+ years of experience in a brand management, finance, sales, consulting, or other relevant leadership development program
  • Consumer packaged goods, food, and/or beverage, or related industry experience
  • Proven ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment within a large, matrixed organization.
  • Excellent communication, collaboration, and presentation skills.
  • Ability to identify and evaluate innovative brand-building ideas across the 4Ps.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Creative and entrepreneurial mindset, with a passion for identifying and capitalizing on growth opportunities.
  • A self-starter with a strong work ethic and the ability to quickly master new systems and processes.
  • Strong analytical skills, with the ability to translate data into actionable insights.
  • Proven ability to translate consumer insights into innovative product and marketing initiatives.
  • Deep understanding of P&L mechanics and the ability to identify and leverage top-line and bottom-line drivers.
  • Knowledge of sales operations and the impact of strategic revenue management (SRM) levers on brand performance.
  • Experience working with brands in various stages of the product lifecycle.
  • Demonstrated strong leadership skills, including ability to influence and effectively collaborate and guide cross-functional teams to achieve shared objectives.

ADDITIONAL CONSIDERATIONSGeneral Mills is committed to Employment Equity and encourages applications from all qualified candidates. Accommodations are available upon request for candidates with disabilities taking part in all aspects of the recruitment and selection process.International relocation or international remote working arrangements (outside of the Canada) will not be considered.Our people are at the heart of what makes General Mills great – it’s why people join and stay.When we connect, co-create, collaborate, and celebrate together, it strengthens our relationships and increases trust. To Win Together, we need to be together, physically and virtually. To do that effectively, we need to think about connecting with intentionality – the moments both big and small, in-person, virtual, and hybrid.Given that collaboration is critical to the success of our team members, our teams, and our business, the expectation for this role will be to work in the office on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays each week. Our policy allows flexibility for the reality of business and personal schedules. Monday and Friday are flexible regarding your work location.
COMPANY OVERVIEWWe exist to make food the world loves. But we do more than that. Our company is a place that prioritizes being a force for good, a place to expand learning, explore new perspectives and reimagine new possibilities, every day. We look for people who want to bring their best — bold thinkers with big hearts who challenge one other and grow together. Because becoming the undisputed leader in food means surrounding ourselves with people who are hungry for what’s next.