We're Hiring: Tender & Costings Business Partner

Location: Droitwich/Market Drayton/Telford and Hybrid - 3 days per week on site.

Contract: Full-Time, Permanent  

Hours: Monday–Friday (40 hours)

Benefits for the role:

Competitive salary, generous annual bonus, Life Assurance,  Company car or cash allowance, Private Medical Insurance,  25 days holiday plus bank holidays (rising with service), Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Family Leave, Enhanced Bereavement Leave, Pension Employer Contribution Scheme (matched up to 8%), Exclusive access to Müller Rewards, offering a variety of online and in-store discounts and development opportunities.

With over 31,000 employees across Europe and a long-standing commitment to excellence, Müller is a family-owned business known for its dedication to quality, innovation, and growth. In the UK alone, we produce a wide range of leading branded and private-label dairy products, from yogurts and desserts to butter and flavoured milk.

If you are ready to unleash your potential and build an exciting career with Britian’s most chosen dairy brand, Müller UK & Ireland, part of the renowned Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller, invites you to apply for our Tender & Costings Business Partner position. 

Our Tender & Costings Business Partner is a specialist role that business partners the Commercial team, designed to add significant value to each tender and costing process, delivering clear, timely and robust financial outputs that support decision-making and drive profitable growth.      

What you’ll do: -

• Be a key finance stakeholder in the tender and product costing process (from start to go live), partnering with Commercial and the Commercial Finance Business Partner to co-ordinate inputs and align with the wider business stakeholders. Produce clear, decision-ready outputs while managing timescales to meet deadlines.
• Drive a consistent, repeatable approach to tendering and product costing, applying commercial judgement and insight to support decision making.
• Alongside the Commercial Finance Business Partner, challenge assumptions and influence commercial decisions by ensuring tender and costing recommendations are based on insight, knowledge and are aligned to strategy.
• Ensure compliance with governance requirements, including the tender and costing process and GO approval process.
• Own the product-level focus for commercial finance, driving improvements in pricing strategies, commercial terms and insight into key P&L drivers, providing actionable insight into commercial that drives EBIT improvement.
• Lead financial input into PEP reviews and NPD discussions, ensuring cost, price, margin and risk implications are understood and reflected in recommendations.
• Business Partner the Category Head, challenging spend on marketing and category data and reporting on actual spend.
• Build strong relationships across the wider controlling/finance team to improve ways of working, share knowledge and align on objectives.
• Deputise for the Commercial Finance Business Partners as required.

What you’ll bring: -

• Degree in a relevant subject
• CIMA/ACCA/ACA qualified
• Ideally experience with SAP
• Experience in a FMCG environment
• Strong problem-solving skills; analytical, logical and numeric
• Excellent Excel knowledge
• Strong influencing skills
• Demonstratable commercial acumen
• Excellent relationship building and communication skills
• Proactive and comfortable working in a fast-paced environment
• Tenacious and resilient

The Process

If you have the skills and experience in the above areas and would like to be considered for this role, please apply at www.mullercareers.co.uk

At Müller, we’re committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone feels they belong. We welcome applications from all backgrounds and encourage people to apply even if they don’t meet every requirement listed. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know - we’re happy to support you.

You can find out more about Müller and what it’s like to work for us by clicking here   Careers at Müller UK & Ireland