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As a Business Controller Productivity at Faber Group, you'll operate at a strategic level and manage productivity, returns, and financial discipline across the organization. You'll be the senior sparring partner for management and project leaders, ensuring that strategic initiatives truly deliver value. With sharp analyses, critical judgment, and an overview of the entire value chain, you'll ensure that benefits are realistic, measurable, and achievable.
About the role
The Business Controller Productivity is a senior finance professional and strategic sparring partner to Project and Program Managers, business leads and Enabling Functions across the organisation. The role plays a key part in strengthening value creation by driving benefit realisation, productivity improvement and financial discipline at group level. By providing proactive insight, challenging assumptions and validating outcomes, the Business Controller Productivity ensures that business cases remain realistic, achievable and aligned with strategic priorities throughout the full initiative lifecycle.
The Business Controller Productivity owns and continuously develops the end-to-end benefits management framework. This includes the identification, quantification, tracking and reporting of financial and non-financial benefits, as well as consolidating productivity insights across cost savings, efficiency gains, growth benefits and working-capital improvements. The role contributes directly to informed decision-making at senior management level and reinforces strong financial governance, transparency and audit readiness.
Key areas of responsibility
- Acts as a senior finance business partner to Project and Program Managers, HR business partners, Procurement and business leads, providing proactive guidance on benefit realisation, productivity opportunities, financial risks and interdependencies.
- Leads the full benefits-realisation cycle across the organisation, from identification and quantification through tracking, reporting and post-implementation measurement, ensuring alignment with strategic and financial objectives.
- Owns, maintains and further professionalises the organisation’s benefits register, ensuring all initiatives have validated benefit profiles with clear baselines, ownership, assumptions and evidence requirements.
- Challenges and validates benefit assumptions, data quality and financial impacts, ensuring benefit estimates are realistic, auditable and free of double-counting.
- Develops, embeds and maintains a benefits realisation and productivity performance framework, including benefit classification, measurement methodologies, KPI definitions and governance standards.
- Prepares clear, concise and actionable productivity and benefits reporting for senior management, explaining variances, identifying root causes and highlighting risks and optimisation opportunities.
- Consolidates productivity insights across efficiency gains, cost savings, growth benefits and working-capital improvements to support enterprise-wide performance management and prioritisation.
- Strengthens governance and compliance by promoting adherence to financial policies and project governance standards, ensuring benefits are traceable, auditable and supported by robust assumptions and data sources.
- Maintains independent and proactive stakeholder management, building strong relationships while safeguarding objectivity and financial integrity.
Performance outcomes
- Ensures benefits and productivity improvements are clearly defined, measurable and realised in line with approved business cases and strategic priorities.
- Provides senior management with transparency and confidence through reliable, auditable and decision-ready productivity and benefits reporting.
- Enables timely identification and escalation of variances, risks and dependencies, supporting corrective or optimisation actions.
- Strengthens organisational governance by embedding disciplined benefits management, traceability and compliance with financial and project standards.
- Acts as a strategic finance partner, contributing to sustainable productivity improvement, value creation and prioritisation across the organisation.
Candidate profile
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in business economics or an equivalent analytical study such as Economics or Mathematics
- 10+ years of relevant working experience, preferably in cost control, productivity performance management, or transformations.
- Proven track record as a senior finance business partner with excellent stakeholder management skills
- Strong analytical and Excel skills, able to reduce complex and/or large volumes of data to a readable, high-level overview.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills.
- Naturally curious, with the ability to create structures and navigate complex data landscapes.
- Authentic and approachable demeanour, with a commitment to fostering a collaborative team culture.
- Accurate, organised and disciplined, with a strong focus on quality and meeting deadlines.
- Results-oriented, proactive and confident in challenging assumptions to safeguard value delivery.
Conditions
- Salary range: €86.000 – €129.000 (including holiday allowance)
- Laptop & mobile phone
- 25 holidays
- Hybrid working, Flexible hours and a focus on output
About Faber Group
Faber Group is an international player in sustainable and innovative logistics solutions. The group focuses on developing, producing, pooling, and managing reusable load carriers such as pallets, crates, and containers for sectors such as FMCG, retail, automotive, industry, and agri & food. With strong brands and specialized business units, Faber Group serves customers throughout Europe and beyond.
Sustainability is a core element of the strategy. Through circular pooling concepts, long product lifespans, and continuous supply chain optimization, Faber Group helps customers reduce costs, increase efficiency, and reduce their ecological footprint.
The organization combines entrepreneurship with scale. It operates in an international, professional environment where data, finance, and performance management play an increasingly important role in achieving growth and value creation. Faber Group actively invests in digitalization, process improvement, and financial governance, offering professionals ample room for initiative, responsibility, and impact.
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