Plant Controlling Manager

Job Location: ​Manisa​

Company Description

Ferrero is a family-owned company with a truly progressive and global outlook and iconic brands such as Nutella®, Tic Tac®, Ferrero Rocher®, Raffaello®, Kinder Bueno® and Kinder Surprise®. As the love for our brands continues to grow, so too does our global reach. Represented in more than 50 countries, with products sold in more than 170, the Ferrero Group is loved by generations around the world. The secret to our global success? 40,000  dedicated employees who celebrate care and quality to craft a business, careers and brands we are proud of. Join us, and you could be one of them.

Diversity Statement

Ferrero is committed to building a diverse and inclusive culture in which all employees feel welcomed and appreciated and have the same opportunities. We believe all of our people are equally talented in their own way. In nurturing the curiosity and natural abilities of our employees, we provide them, generation after generation, the means to succeed personally and professionally, enabling them to craft their journey at Ferrero. The diversity of our talents is what makes our work environment multicultural, innovative and highly rewarding.

About the Role:

We are looking for a Plant Controlling Manager to be based in Manisa. This role will report professionally to the I&S Controlling Area APAC-MEA Manager and managerially to both Region Türkiye Controlling Manager and Region Industrial Manager Türkiye.
As the Plant Controlling Manager, your primary responsibility will be overseeing the plant’s planning process, ensuring adherence to Group/Company timelines. You will collaborate with all Industrial Departments and Business Unit Finance to provide monthly closings and explain any budget deviations. Additionally, you will work with Area I&S Controlling to clarify deviations and budgetary assumptions on production variances, ensuring compliance with procedures for loading financial data (actual and budget) into the Information Systems.
If you believe you are a good fit for this role, please don’t hesitate to apply now!

Main Responsibilities:

• Define the full cost perimeter for industrial planning, budgeting, and forecasting (including industrial co-man), and set targets to ensure compliance with Group process timelines
• Actively support the Plant Manager and Plant Board in making strategic decisions and prioritizations by highlighting financial implications and proactively identifying cost dynamics
• Coordinate and supervise all Industrial Departments in Budget preparation
• Conduct necessary simulations to forecast year-end volumes and values
• Report actual versus Budget/Forecast data at local and Area levels
• Simulate costs for new products and SKUs
• Calculate Transfer Prices based on Group-defined markups (non-converted Plant vs. non-converted market)
• Perform economic valuation of technical documentation (Modelli)
• Conduct obsolescence analysis (internal reutilization) for packaging and semi-finished products, including economic valuation
• Analyze manufacturing engineering continuous improvement business cases
• Evaluate monthly closure variances
• Perform economic valuation and monitoring of labor components (fixed vs. seasonal)
• Report plant performance in monthly closures (one set of data)
• Manage HFM data loading and reporting
• Conduct destruction analysis (economic evaluation of materials online, external warehousing, and pallets)
• Develop, plan, and monitor CAPEX business cases
• Perform economic analyses for local investments and new initiatives

Who we are looking for:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• Preferably +10 years of experience in a similar role
• Strong attention to detail, analytical and negotiation skills 
• Comfortable working with strict deadlines
• Solid knowledge of SAP modules
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills both in English and Turkish

How to be successful in the role and at Ferrero:

Consumers, quality and care are at the heart of everything we do. So, to be successful at Ferrero, you’ll need to be just as consumer and product centric as we are - dedicated to crafting brilliant results for consumers around the world.