The Compleat Food Group
Head of Commercial Finance
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Head of Commercial Finance
Location: Nottingham (Hybrid working with travel to other sites as required)
Salary: Senior level + competitive benefits package
Join one of the UK’s fastest-growing chilled food manufacturing businesses and play a leading role in shaping commercial performance across a £1bn+ chilled food manufacturing organisation.
About The Compleat Food Group
The Compleat Food Group is one of the UK's fastest-growing PE-backed chilled food manufacturing companies. We are looking for a commercially astute, highly influential Head of Commercial Finance to join a fast-paced, multi-site food group with scale, high ambition, and momentum. This is a senior leadership opportunity for someone who has already operated at Head of level within a large, complex business — or for an exceptional Commercial Finance Controller or Senior Finance Manager ready to step into a broader, senior, more strategic role.
The Opportunity
This is a high-impact commercial finance leadership role with genuine visibility across the business. You will lead the commercial financial agenda across sales, marketing, category, revenue growth management, and customer investment, ensuring commercial decisions are underpinned by robust financial insight and aligned to long-term strategic objectives.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Act as a senior finance partner to the Commercial, Marketing, Category, and Revenue Growth Management teams, providing strategic insight, challenge, and support.
- Lead commercial financial performance across key customer channels, including grocery, convenience, wholesale, foodservice, export, and e-commerce.
- Shape customer negotiations, Joint Business Plans, pricing decisions, and promotional investment through robust financial modelling and scenario analysis.
- Drive customer, brand, and portfolio profitability reviews, identifying opportunities to improve mix, margin, return on investment, and sustainable growth.
- Lead the commercial finance input into budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, and Integrated Business Planning cycles.
- Strengthen financial governance across trade terms, customer investment, promotional funding, and commercial expenditure.
- Partner cross-functionally to improve planning discipline, forecast credibility, data quality, reporting, and decision-making.
- Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing Commercial Finance team, building capability, accountability, and succession strength.
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About You...
We are looking for a qualified finance leader who brings strong commercial judgement, confidence working with senior stakeholders, and the ability to influence in a complex, fast-moving environment. You may already be operating as a Head of Commercial Finance within a large multi-site business, or you may be ready for that next step from a senior commercial finance leadership role.
- Qualified accountant, ideally ACA, ACCA, or CIMA.
- Significant commercial finance experience within a large, complex multi-location organisation.
- Background in manufacturing, FMCG, food, drink, or a similarly fast-paced consumer environment.
- Experience working across multi-site operations would be highly beneficial.
- Strong understanding of commercial performance, customer profitability, pricing, promotions, trade investment, and margin management.
- Proven ability to partner, influence, and challenge senior commercial leaders.
- Excellent analytical, modelling, and strategic thinking capability.
- Strong leadership style with a passion for developing teams and improving ways of working.
Why Join The Compleat Food Group - what's in it for you?
At The Compleat Food Group, we believe our people are the heart of our success. That’s why we offer a wide range of benefits designed to support your lifestyle, wellbeing, and career growth:
Financial & Lifestyle Benefits
- Competitive Car Allowance
- Company Bonus Scheme recognising performance and contribution
- Salary Sacrifice Schemes - including Electric Vehicles, Home & Tech, Cycle to Work, and SMART Pension
- 33 days’ annual leave (including bank holidays) with the option to purchase extra
- Holiday Discounts Available via our online retail discount platform
- Access to enhanced retail discounts online and in-store
- Free product handouts across our sites, so you can sample and enjoy our delicious products first hand
- EV charging points - available at selected sites
Health & Wellbeing
- 24/7 access to GroceryAid for free financial, emotional, and practical support
- Physical Wellbeing Hub - free on-demand exercise programmes, online classes, and multiple gym discounts
- Free diet & nutrition advice with access to thousands of meal plans and healthy recipes
- Online wellbeing support - from mindfulness to lifestyle resources
- Financial wellbeing tools - including mortgage calculators, budgeting tools, and financial aid
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Career Growth & Development
- Access to a personalised online learning platform (LMS)
- Formal and informal training opportunities tailored to your role
- Performance Development Plans and regular Career Conversations
- Industry-leading company Mentoring Scheme to add depth and really support your career journey
- Recognition through Club Compleat rewards portal
Community & Culture
- 2 paid volunteering days per year to give back to causes that matter to you
- Charity initiatives and fundraising events
- Team socials to connect and celebrate together
- Employee networks & support groups - including Women @ Compleat
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This is an opportunity to join a business with real scale, pace, and ambition. As a £1.4bn+ turnover FMCG group, we offer the complexity and challenge of a major organisation, combined with the energy and entrepreneurial spirit of one of the UK’s fastest-growing chilled food manufacturers.
You will have the opportunity to make a visible impact, influence strategic decision-making, and help shape the next stage of our growth journey. If you are a commercially minded finance leader who wants to be close to the business, lead with insight, and develop your career in a dynamic manufacturing environment, we would love to hear from you.
What You Should Know About How We Recruit
At The Compleat Food Group, we believe great teams are built on difference. We create an inclusive, respectful environment where everyone feels safe, supported, and are able to be themselves at work. We’re proud to be an equal opportunities employer and are committed to Fairness, Equity, Inclusivity, and Respect. If you need a reasonable adjustment at any stage of our recruitment process, just let us know; we’ll support you — confidentially and with care.
We hire the best people for our roles, not the same people. Whoever you are, wherever you’re from, we focus on what you do and the impact you could make in our business. Our recruitment process is fair, accessible, and designed to give everyone an equal chance. You’ll also find benefits that support people at every life stage, plus active internal networks — including Women @ Compleat, LGBTQIA+, and Neurodiversity.
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