Business Unit Controller – Wholesale

AG Barr Group

Business Unit Controller leading a multi-skilled team to drive growth in Wholesale for AG Barr. Focus on continuous improvement, KPI targets, and employee engagement.

Posted 5/15/2026full-timeRemote • 🇬🇧 United KingdomMid-LevelSeniorWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Leading and deciding - Takes control and exercises leadership, initiates action, provides others with clear direction and takes responsibility. Sets behavioural standards while motivating and empowering others.
Health and Safety—Ensures H&S is at the top of every agenda. Contributes to and supports the company's drive to create a culture of safety and well-being.
Organising and Executing—Plans ahead, is systematic, follows directions and procedures while setting clearly defined objectives, monitors performance and outputs, takes learnings, and applies these to consistently achieve project and execution goals.
Results driven - Works best when work is closely related to results. Shows business acumen and understands finance and commerce. Keeps up to date with competitor information and market trends. Identifies business opportunities and efficiencies while seeking to develop themselves in role or seek career progression.
Interacting and presenting - Communicates and networks effectively, successfully persuades and influences others, persuades and influences projects credibility. Expresses opinions clearly while maintaining collaborative relationships internally and externally.
Training & Development – General training management aligned to commercial competencies and Barr Behaviours to ensure their team are competent in their existing role while building capability through PDPs to ensure that the team is ready for the next move within their career plan, providing the leaders of the future. Above all carried out within the parameters of the CLASS and 70/20/10 models.
Financial Control – Work with finance partners to deliver effective management of budgets and cost bases to achieve all commercial contribution targets and objectives.
Operational - Working with internal and external partners to maximise efficiencies, cost control, stock holding and service levels to deliver a best in class operational arm to our company.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Performance mindset with coaching experience, enhanced leadership and influencing skills with the ability to challenge at the appropriate times and manner
Broad experience of leadership gained over 5 years or more within an FMCG environment, preferably with major customer, team management, commercial and category experience.
Excellent interpersonal skills and an ability to present and engage internally and externally with customers. Abe to build and leverage authentic relationships.
Developed IT skills required to manage workload, communicate and present a compelling narrative
Experience in national head office account management with influential communication skills
Creativity and being resourceful - The ability to look at things differently and offer customer centric solutions
Drive, motivation and energy with a desire to win

Benefits

Comp & perks

Flexible Pension Scheme
Private Medical benefit
Automatic life Assurance
Company Car allowance
Annual Bonus Opportunity
34 days holiday with flexible holiday trading
Healthcare Cash Plan
Range of flexible benefits e.g. discounts & cash backs, gym memberships, technology purchases etc
Save as you earn scheme
Staff sales discount
Access to Peppy - health and well being support
Free AG Barr products throughout your working day
Ongoing professional development

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Hard Skills & Tools

budget managementaccount managementproject managementperformance monitoringtraining managementcoachingfinancial controlcommercial competenciescategory managementFMCG experience

Soft Skills

leadershipinfluencinginterpersonal skillscommunicationcollaborationcreativityresourcefulnessmotivationdrivebusiness acumen