Klöckner Pentaplast

Commercial Analyst

Klöckner Pentaplast

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Featherstone • United Kingdom

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About the role

  • Identify opportunities to enhance margin and profitability across regions in close partnership with FP Sales teams.
  • Deliver transparency on where profitability is gained or lost across customers, product lines, and transactions.
  • Analyse CM1 and CM2 margins and develop tracking mechanisms that highlight risk and opportunity.
  • Provide pricing and margin insight for both new business opportunities and existing customer portfolios.
  • Support commercial performance monitoring, identifying variances vs. budgets and supporting corrective action plans.
  • Strengthen commercial margin enhancement capabilities across FP in collaboration with Commercial and Finance teams.
  • Drive best practices in margin enhancement and commercial processes.
  • Streamline FP Commercial reporting and proactively deliver insights to senior leadership up to Board level.
  • Produce ad‑hoc analysis and reporting to support strategic decision making.

Requirements

  • Academic degree in Finance (Postgraduate or MBA preferred)
  • Proven experience driving commercial finance initiatives, reporting, and business support
  • Strong business acumen with the ability to extract, interpret, and communicate insights to all stakeholder levels
  • Analytical, independent, and methodical approach
  • Confident change agent with strong communication and interpersonal impact
  • Ability to operate effectively in a dynamic, multinational environment
  • Strong stakeholder management skills, including experience engaging senior leaders
  • High proficiency in MS Excel, PowerPoint, PowerBI, Salesforce, SAP or E1
  • Strong presentation and slide‑building abilities
  • Fluent English; additional languages advantageous
  • 5–7 years of business experience
  • 3–4 years in commercial finance roles
  • Experience in consulting or advisory roles is a strong plus
  • Packaging industry experience beneficial but not required.
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Hard Skills & Tools
commercial financemargin analysisfinancial reportingbusiness supportdata analysispricing strategyperformance monitoringcorrective action planningstrategic decision makingstakeholder engagement
Soft Skills
business acumenanalytical thinkingindependencemethodical approachchange managementcommunication skillsinterpersonal skillsstakeholder managementpresentation skillsadaptability
Certifications
Postgraduate degreeMBA