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About this Commercial Strategy & Execution Controller role at Weetabix

Weetabix · Onsite · Burton Latimer, England, United Kingdom

At Weetabix, we believe that diverse teams drive better ideas, stronger decisions, and a more inclusive workplace for everyone. We’re committed to building an organisation where people from all walks of life feel they belong—where different voices, experiences, and backgrounds are valued and respected.

Closing date: 28th July 2026
Interview process: Two Stage Interview Process
Working pattern: You’ll spend three days a week in the office, creating great opportunities to collaborate, strengthen team connections and build high‑impact working relationships face to face.

We’re happy to make reasonable adjustments throughout the recruitment process—just let us know how we can support you.

Weetabix is on an exciting growth journey, and many of the opportunities we are recruiting for are newly created roles. These positions reflect our investment in people, capabilities and innovation as we continue to build for the future.

The Recipe (About the Role)

The Commercial Strategy & Execution Controller plays a critical role in shaping and delivering our go-to-market strategy, ensuring commercial excellence and maximising return on trade investment. Owning teams across Revenue Management, Shopper Insight and Commercial Operations, you'll drive sustainable, profitable growth while creating the conditions for successful execution across the business.

Working closely with Sales, Marketing, Finance and Supply Chain, you'll own key processes including Integrated Business Planning (IBP), trade investment governance and commercial performance management. You'll also help advance our commercial capability through technology-enabled forecasting, digital revenue management tools and simplified ways of working, ensuring we continue to win with customers today and in the future.

  • Develop and deliver go-to-market plans that help our commercial, category and brand targets, ensuring strong and consistent execution across all customers and channels
  • Translate commercial strategy into clear execution plans, driving delivery at pace while maintaining accountability, governance and transparency
  • Maximise return on investment by embedding robust processes aligned to Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance requirements
  • Own the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) cycle, including annual planning, and optimise demand opportunities within supply and manufacturing constraints
  • Partner with Sales to build compelling, insight-led customer stories (including Consumer Price Increase (CPI) proposals and promotional strategies) aligned to our commercial direction
  • Drive profitable growth through pricing, mix and pack strategies, improving net revenue realisation and delivering targeted Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation and Amortisation (EBITDA) outcomes
  • Enhance shopper marketing and retail media effectiveness, ensuring activity delivers measurable category growth and stronger return on investment
  • Create and embed a 1–3 year revenue management strategy, including clear frameworks, guardrails and capability development across the business
  • Strengthen cross-functional alignment across Sales, Marketing, Finance, Category and Supply to deliver a fully integrated go-to-market approach
  • Own continuous improvement and digital transformation, including implementation of Trade Promotion Management (TPM) tools, to enhance decision-making, reporting and execution efficiency

The Ingredients (What we need from you)

Key Know How:

  • Significant commercial experience within fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), across category management, revenue management, commercial strategy or sales
  • Experience working with and helping teams to deliver cross-functional outcomes across complex commercial environments
  • Strong financial understanding, including profit and loss (P&L), revenue drivers, promotional activity and return on investment (ROI) analysis
  • Experience delivering large-scale commercial processes such as Integrated Business Planning (IBP) and Integrated Commercial Planning (ICP)
  • Good understanding of UK grocery retail, shopper behaviours and category performance drivers
  • Experience managing or overseeing significant trade investment budgets with a focus on value and effectiveness

Your Bowl of Perks (Benefits)

Competitive salary & Annual Flexible benefits

We offer a competitive salary and a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your wellbeing, career, and life outside work.

  • Annual bonus
  • Double-matched pension scheme (up to 12% from us)
  • 25 days annual leave increasing with service
  • Annual Salary review
  • Healthcare plan
  • Discounted Weetabix products

To support our employees, we also offer:

  • Continued investment in your personal development
  • We believe in balance, whether it's for family, rest or simply time for you. As well as your holiday entitlement, you can purchase up to 5 days of additional annual leave
  • Access to 24/7 counselling service (via Grocery Aid partnership)
  • The freedom of Flexible Work Opportunities
  • Enhanced Maternity / Paternity / Adoption Leave
  • Additional Time Off for Fertility Treatment and Neonatal Care
  • Working Parents Support Group
  • Fully stocked kitchens filled with our delicious products for you to enjoy

To learn more about life at Weetabix, visit our careers page: https://careers.weetabixfoodcompany.co.uk/


Please note: We benchmark roles based on your skills and experience, so we do not advertise fixed salary ranges.

Unfortunately, we are unable to provide sponsorship for this position; therefore, we are seeking candidates who do not require sponsorship.

We utilise our Preferred Agency Supplier Partners as and when we require additional support

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About Weetabix

We are Weetabix. Home to the UK’s favourite breakfast cereal and muesli (Alpen), and a brilliant Drinks business.

Our purpose is to help people live better lives by providing better breakfasts.

We’re leading the cereal market with world class innovation, we win awards. And trophies. We created a whole new breakfast category with our Weetabix On the Go Drinks.

Oh.., we also make Weetabix Minis, Weetos, Oatibix, Ready Brek, Alpen bars, and more. Bet you didn’t know that before. You do now. With all of this, we win with our customers.

Home for us is in the beautiful Northamptonshire countryside, we’re less than an hour from London and Birmingham. Agile working means we can be based anywhere and get the job done. We export to over 80 countries and we’ve got businesses in other locations around the globe too.

We’re ambitious. And it’s all because we give our people the freedom and support to make the big decisions. It’s what we call The Weetabix Difference, and it’ll make all the difference to your career.

A family owned business until 2003, Weetabix Food Company is now wholly owned by Post Holdings, Inc., headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri. Post Holdings, Inc is a consumer packaged goods holding company operating in cereals, foodservice, food ingredient, private label, refrigerated and active nutrition food categories. Post Holdings, Inc is listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: POST).

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