Category & Sourcing Controller

The position

Pierce grows with a yearly pace of 30-40% and expect to continue growing. Last 12 months we have a revenue of over 1.400 MSEK. To continue the growth and increase profitability, we are now looking for a Senior Business Controller to support and lead the improvements within the category and sourcing management function.

Responsibilities of a Category & Sourcing Controller:

The role is responsible for reports, analysis and financial planning to improve the functions capability to deliver on targets based on defined KPIs.
You will be an active member of the operational management team (Category & Sourcing) and initiate improvements and/or findings as well as secure follow up on decided actions.
In this role you work closely with the commercial functions (ex. Sales and Marketing, Pricing, Analytics) to secure information needed to fully understand the business and decisions needed.
As a controller you need to understand the details as well as have a holistic view. The main objective for the role is to support how to improve sales and profitability, improve the assortment development and mix as well as control the open to buy process within the Category & Sourcing function.

Main tasks

- Overall responsible for the Category & Sourcing function’s financial process and progress (budget, forecast, review, corrective actions)
- Overall responsible for defining, develop and drive KPIs within the function as a platform for the strategic road map coming years including processes and tools
- Support Category Management with financial and operational analysis and relevant decision making to perform fact-based negotiations with suppliers
- Responsible to define and develop margin strategy guidelines and tools and to implement
- Responsible to define and develop open to buy guidelines and tools
- Responsible to timely deliver reports and reviews on financial targets including standardize and improve methods
- Support functions in business intelligence including category results, market development, competitors and category trends
- Responsible for implement financial processes and way of working according to the business model including improvements, adjustments and tools
- Responsible for coordinating project tasks within dedicated project
- Proactively drive improvements within identified areas to reach full potential
- Responsible to be the linking pin towards Finance in reporting and reviews


Qualification

- Master/Msc. or MA (Civilekonom)
- At least +8 years’ experience in merchandising controlling and/or analytics within category and sourcing from retail/e-tail companies
- Strategic and tactical, influencing and organizational agility
- Self-organizing, structured, and keeps focus under pressure
- Process and progress driven with excellent Excel competence, knowledge in BI merit
- Driving and implementing projects cross functions is a plus
- Fluent in English

Personality
As a person you need to have a strong financial business acumen with top notch analytical insights “big picture” being accountable and result oriented. We think you have a sociable, out-going, customer focused attitude with a high level of resilience, persistence and energy. Business minded and action-oriented with strong follow-up skills. The person is a team player with experience in inspiring, motivate and collaborate with different roles within the organization. To fit in the company, you must be individually driven, independent with hands-on and goal-oriented tasks person. You need to step up as a leader from time to team to drive and implement processes and structures that’s not in place, to enable future scalability. You need to be service minded with focus on the best for the company, prestige less with a strong “can-do” attitude. We also see that you are pedagogic, you have good interpersonal skills and a coaching approach.

Pierce is the ecommerce company that has grown to become Europe’s biggest online retailer for gear and accessories within Motorcycles and Snowmobiles. We do this all over Europe through our online shops 24MX, XLmoto and SledStore. The company is in an amazing growth spurt, growing by 30-40% annually. At the beginning of 2009 we were a team of 4, today we are about 380 international professionals, committed to giving our customers across 17 European markets a huge range of products and an extraordinary level of service.

Our turnover during 2019 was 120 MEUR, up over 30% from the year before. And 2020 has started well. We continue our growth journey and, as a 'D-Award' finalist, we were recognized as one of the 3 best e-commerce companies in Sweden - something we are very proud of. In 2020 Pierce also received the Sweden's Best Managed Companies recognition, sponsored by the global audit firm Deloitte in cooperation with Nasdaq.

It started with a passion for our sport, was driven by the enthusiasm of our staff and we still dare to reach out for more with love and dedication for our customers.

Join us on our quest to become the most admired retailer within the motorcycle industry and shape the way motor enthusiasts shop by offering a state-of-the-art online shopping experience built on passion, professionalism, and a good dose of rebellious spirit.

We are passionate about riding motorcycles and have an exciting program for employees who want to learn to ride or get more involved in motorsport. But non-riders are also very welcome to join of course.