Senior Director of Finance and Supply Chain - Europe
Who We Are: At Huda Beauty, our Vision is to lead in creating a democratized beauty industry where power is given back to people to define, create, and enjoy beauty for themselves! Launched by award-winning beauty powerhouse Huda Kattan in 2013, Huda Beauty is one of the world’s fastest growing beauty brands. As a company, we are fueled by purpose and not profit, this allows us to approach things differently so that we can create products, content, and a community like no other. A lot has changed since our launch in 2013, but something that will forever remain at the core of Huda Beauty is our focus on business excellence and our unwavering passion for kindness!
Summary: The Senior Director of Finance & Supply Chain leads Finance, Demand Planning and Supply Chain across Europe, partnering closely with the General Manager. The role has responsibility for consolidating the regional sales, investment and overheads into country/regional P&Ls to give transparency and protect a profitable business model across the market. This dynamic position also oversees demand planning to deliver accurate sell-in/sell-out forecasts aligned to financial models, while driving inventory health and managing its financial impact. In addition, the role manages strategic relationships with regional 3PL partners, including KPI and SLA performance.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
- Serve as financial advisor to the Europe team and global Finance team, providing data-driven recommendations and creating a long-term strategy for Huda Beauty’s financial stability based on financial analysis, forecasting and modeling.
- Lead, mentor, coach, empower 3 direct reports and an overall team of 8. Provide thought leadership and build strong, effective partnerships with both internal and external partners
- Build business models and forecasting tools that allow for long-term scenario planning and real-time decision making that maximize Huda Beauty’s impact and revenue
- Partner with and present to the senior leadership team on:
- P&Ls by country, region, retailer
- YTD performance/YTG targets vs. Budget
- Potential opportunities & risks
- Feedback sales-mix implications on profit (e.g. COG)
- Mange the demand planning team on capturing, reporting and monitoring retail/wholesale monthly sales plans (forecasts and results) by channel and geography, flowing into regional and international reporting
- With the General Manager, capture, report and monitor investment plans by channel and geography.
- Track the inventory value and the obsolescence risk, and ensure that E&O remains in budget
- Ensure the integrity, accuracy and usefulness of all financial reports, including budget-to-actuals and financial reports for Huda Beauty, the Board, and key internal decision-makers
- Hold a key role in the regional S&OP process ensuring proper regional alignment between financial and unit sales forecast and inventory plans
- Support on overseeing the fixed costs of logistics, warehousing, and impact of inventory costs
- Work closely with the General Manager for all external negotiations with retailers including Sephora to protect business interests and represent the brand
- Drive operational excellence across the organization, evaluating, refining, creating and/or supporting systems and processes to ensure efficiency and effectiveness as we scale in size, product lines, and complexity
- Partner closely with the Operations team to forecast, monitor and analyze our logistics budgets, advising on efficiencies across 3PL fulfillment and global physical distribution costs
Requirements
- 8-10 years of finance management experience ideally in a start-up to scale-up organization
- Experience working, negotiating, and building relationships with multiple external stakeholders including retailers, 3PLs, etc.
- Flexibility, resilience, and comfort navigating ambiguity — the tempo at Huda Beauty is fast and can pivot quickly, ability to thrive and lead a team in this environment
- Proven success as a kind and empathetic leader and coach/mentor with success in hiring and fostering growth of their team; ability to successfully motivate and challenge a team of talented and creative people at all levels of the organization
- Ability to roll up their sleeves and get things done, but also be a strategic leader with the ability to build frameworks, and communicate this effectively to company leadership, the organization, the Board, and the global market
Benefits
- Monthly “Self Love Days” – at company discretion
- Premium Medical/Dental/Vision coverage for employee plus dependents
- Monthly coaching sessions with our in-house Success Coach
- Employee discounts on all Huda Beauty products
- Quarterly product gifting
Huda Beauty is committed to building diverse and inclusive teams and upholding an equal employment workplace that is free from discrimination. We hire stellar individuals regardless of their race, color, ancestry, religion, gender identity, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, medical conditions, disability, or veteran status. If you need reasonable accommodations at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.