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Role: Commercial Finance Manager Reports to: Head of Business Insights Based: Southall (On-site) About Delice De France: Delice is the largest specialist distributor of premium frozen bakery products operating in the UK with a rich history underpinned by a focus on innovation and customer service. Established in London in 1984,primarily focused on the food service sector, with notable success in retail, leveraging its established strategic supplier network to navigate global food trends and develop a holistic understanding of the food market in conjunction with its own multi temperature UK logistics network. On 4 October 2019, Delice became independent through a management buy out. Through increased but measured agility and flexibility Delice optimised its assets, grew new sales channels, and further enriched its own fleet to benefit its customers. Delice is led by an entrepreneurial experienced management team with a demonstrable record of delivering performance, supported by years of industry knowledge and insight. The Company has a proven track record with strong financial performance. Delice management responded quickly to the pandemic, speedily right-sizing the business by July 2020 and saving c£8m a year. Delice has since developed new business channels, built a successful dark kitchen and established its own multi-temperature UK fleet, whilst completing its full separation from Aryzta. Today, Delice is a stronger, fit-for-purpose business in a robust financial position and well placed for future growth. The Role: The whole Finance team at Delice are very commercially driven and get the opportunity to get involved in all aspects of the business at many different levels. At Delice finance is at the heart of the business, with an Entrepreneurial spirit. We are looking for an exceptionally commercial candidate to join our Business Insights team in our Southall Head office. Business Insights is exceptionally entrepreneurial, and no two days are the same. It's an exciting time to join us and be a part of the team designed to drive the business forward through business partnering the sales team and being an integral part of our Customer's Journey. You will also own the financial view of our product journey, from supplier through freight, storage and distribution to the customer, making sure every product is accurately costed to deliver its margin. You will be involved in a variety of fast paced change projects and initiatives into our customer centric independent business. For example, relaunching our Customer Concepts and the Delice Brands. You are excited by the opportunity to work at different levels within the business and driven to learn more about an FMCG food business, bringing strong business acumen. Driven and a self-starter, you will lead continuous improvement across our Customer Journeys, striving for efficiencies and excellence whilst maintaining the highest standards of performance and promoting our Food Safety Culture. You will be an extended part of our Sales team and part of the Delice Family delivering the Delice core values. Key Relationships: Reporting into the Head of Business Insights, the Commercial Finance Manager will be a key business partner to the sales team who look after the Retail, Out of Home, Catering, Wholesale, Distribution & Multiples channels. Other Key Contacts: Sales, Marketing, Procurement, Supply Chain, Hardware, the rest of the Finance team. Responsibilities: As the Commercial Finance Manager, your responsibilities will include: Lead the financial review and challenge of business cases (e.g. new customer contracts, tenders, pricing investments, new product launches and capex), including post-investment reviews to track ROI delivered against plan. Strategically and tactically support the Sales team across all sectors, end-to-end on areas such as accurate pricing, maximising Return on Investment, accurate forecasting, Finance support in tenders, contract review, trade terms management, and customer joint business plan meetings. Drive profitability, growth and cash improvement with a customer and product lens by working with the Head of Business Insights and Head of Finance, to identify key trends and actions with these channels. For larger tenders also working with the CFO and CEO. Lead regular finance and sales performance reviews to drive accountability, efficiency and clear communication. Promote cross-functional working to build a balanced customer, cost and cash-focused culture. Deliver sales analytics, including price/volume/mix, customer and product profitability and promotional effectiveness, and develop timely, accurate, insight-driven commercial reporting and Power BI dashboards. Working with the Head of Business Insights, own the Sales month-end commentary, providing a clear understanding of business sales performance and outlook. Prepare the Executive KPI report, bringing together key metrics from across all departments, summarising performance and highlighting key changes and trends for the Executive team. Build a working technical understanding of each department's KPIs to sense-check the data and explain key movements. Champion data literacy and self-serve reporting (Excel, Power BI) across the commercial team, promoting continuous improvement throughout Delice. Own landed product cost modelling as part of the product journey, keeping product costs accurate and analysing variances to inform pricing and margin decisions. Support the Strategic Sector Pricing Strategy for Delice working closely with the Channel Team, Sales Operations Director, President and Marketing. Work with the Head of Business Insights, Chief Financial Officer, President and the Sales Operations Director to understand how market insights can be used with pricing tactical strategies to gain market share. Evaluate new financing and business model opportunities to increase market penetration for Delice de France. Lead and support cross-functional projects and provide ad hoc commercial finance solutions as business needs evolve. Benefits: Company Pension. Life Assurance. Free Onsite Parking. Referral Scheme. Long Service Award Scheme. 50% Discount Off Company Purchases. Eyecare Vouchers. Employee Assistance Programme. Essential Experience and Qualifications: Business or numerate degree (or equivalent). At least 3 years' commercial finance or financial reporting experience, with a commercial, value-adding mindset. Proven business partnering experience, with the confidence to challenge and influence senior stakeholders. Strongly analytical, with excellent communication, collaboration and interpersonal skills. Customer and solutions focused, turning financial insight into practical commercial solutions for customers and the business. A strong, resilient and flexible personality, comfortable adapting to changing priorities and holding their own with senior stakeholders. Excellent planning and multitasking skills, able to manage varied day-to-day priorities and deadlines. Advanced Excel skills, along with strong MS Office skills. A proactive self-starter with clear, independent thinking, able to work flexibly both independently and as part of a team. Experience of an integrated ERP system (ideally Microsoft Dynamics 365) and Power BI is preferred ACCA/ACA/CIMA qualified or finalist is preferred. FMCG, retail or fast-paced entrepreneurial background preferred. Enjoys a fast-paced, changing commercial environment where no two days are the same. Key Performance Measures: Business partnering and key stakeholder management. Timely, accurate and insightful commercial reporting and sales analytics with a value-added focus. On-time, accurate delivery of the Executive KPI report with clear, actionable commentary. Rigour of business case review and tracking of ROI delivered against plan. Accuracy of landed product costs and overall margin delivery against target. TPBN1_UKTJ

At HIVED, we’re steamrolling forward as one of Europe’s fastest growing startups, and our momentum shows no signs of slowing. At HIVED, we’re steamrolling forward as one of Europe’s fastest growing startups, and our momentum shows no signs of slowing. Based in London, we are a climate and logistics start-up building the first sustainable parcel delivery network at scale, powered by a 100% electric fleet. In an ever-growing industry where unreliable service has long been the norm, HIVED has been built from the ground-up to meet the demands of modern consumers and disrupt parcel delivery. A tech company at heart, our talent and technology is laser-focused on delivering the best possible delivery experience for end-customers and meeting the needs of our retail partners. From our drivers to our data engineers, we are constantly working to improve this customer experience that makes us deliver better. Already trusted by leading international brands such as John Lewis, Nespresso, Uniqlo, H&M brands and more, we are solidifying our position as the leaders in Europe to tackle this growing market. Our tight-knit team is made up of ex-Revolut, Bain, HelloFresh, ASOS, Apple and Google employees, and we are backed by some of Europe’s leading investors and VCs in climate-tech, logistics and mobility including Planet A Ventures, Maersk Growth, Pale Blue Dot VC, Eka Ventures, NordicNinja VC and the British government. We’re passionate about driving innovation and redefining the future of delivery. We are looking for a Lead Engineer to take ownership of one of HIVED’s highest-impact technical domains: the planning pipeline that powers supply-demand matching, parcel distribution, and routing optimisation. As part of HIVED’s Routing Squad, you’ll lead the team tackling some of the most complex and intellectually demanding problems in computer science — building systems that decide how parcels move through the city efficiently, reliably, and at scale. This is a rare opportunity to combine deep engineering expertise, optimisation thinking, and real-world domain understanding to shape a core strategic advantage for HIVED. You’ll own the technical direction of the squad, set a high bar for engineering quality, and lead a team of engineers working closely with data scientists, analysts, product, and operations. Your work will have a direct and visible impact: better routing, stronger planning capabilities, more efficient operations, and a delivery network you can see improving in the city around you. • Lead the Routing Squad across technical strategy, delivery, team leadership, and execution of squad goals., • Own the technical direction for systems supporting routing optimisation, supply-demand matching, parcel distribution, forecasting, and planning., • Translate business priorities and operational needs into clear technical strategy, measurable outcomes, and pragmatic execution plans., • Guide architecture and system design for scalable, reliable, production-grade optimisation and planning systems., • Work closely with optimisation engineers, backend engineers, data scientists, analysts, product, and operational stakeholders to turn complex problems into shipped solutions., • Lead the exploration and evaluation of new approaches across routing, scheduling, optimisation, forecasting, and distributed systems., • Set and uphold a high engineering bar through technical reviews, architectural guidance, mentoring, and accountability for maintainable software., • Manage, coach, and develop engineers in the squad, including hiring, performance management, development planning, and resourcing., • Foster a culture of curiosity, ownership, high performance, and continuous learning within the team., • 5+ years of software engineering experience, including backend or distributed systems development., • Experience leading engineers, either as a people manager or as a senior technical leader with meaningful ownership over team delivery., • Proven ability to translate complex, ambiguous business or operational problems into robust technical solutions., • Strong system design and architectural skills in distributed, production-grade environments., • An appetite for hard optimisation problems — especially routing, scheduling, forecasting, supply-demand matching, or other constraint-heavy domains., • Strong analytical thinking and the ability to combine technical depth with practical judgement., • A track record of setting high engineering standards and helping teams consistently meet them., • Experience working cross-functionally with product, operations, data scientists, analysts, and senior leadership., • Strong ownership mindset: you care about the strategy, the system, the team, and the real-world outcome., • Experience with routing, scheduling, optimisation, forecasting, logistics, mobility, or marketplace systems., • Experience productionising algorithms, solvers, models, or data-heavy decision systems., • Familiarity with optimisation techniques such as linear/integer programming, constraint programming, heuristics, or solver-based approaches., • Experience working in a fast-scaling operational environment where software has a direct physical-world impact., • Backend languages: Python, Go, • Tech infrastructure: AWS, CDK TypeScript, Lambda, SQS, EventBridge, RDS, DynamoDB, • Data tooling: GCP, BigQuery, Looker, Looker Studio, • Observability: Loki, Tempo, Grafana, Prometheus, • Event-driven architecture and domain-driven design, • Intro call with the hiring manager, • Live coding challenge solving a problem, • A take home case study, followed by a discussion, • On-site interview at our Shoreditch HQ (role and culture), • We Are Kind - Kind to the planet, our team and our partners. We listen with purpose, leave our egos at the door and aren't afraid to make difficult decisions. We must never confuse kindness with being "nice" - it requires us to be fair, consistent, honest, thoughtful and compassionate., • We Are Tenacious - We fight every day to keep the customer promise, for every parcel entrusted to us. No matter how hard it gets or whatever stands in our way, we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence., • We Are Curious - We never settle, constantly challenge convention and are never afraid to ask why. We believe there is always more to learn, always a better way, and that we're always only just getting started. We never fight the urge to be inquisitive, to understand the world around us and to explore where others might not., • We Are Resourceful - Our planet's resources are scarce and our future depends on our ability to use them wisely. Waste is the enemy. We strive to do more with less, be more efficient and make the most of what we have., • Dynamic hybrid working environment with a diverse and driven team, • Huge opportunity for learning in a high growth environment, with progression opportunities based on success in the role, • 25 days of holiday allowance plus public holidays, • 1 Birthday Day Off + 2 Tenure-Based Additional Days Off, • Subsidised Private Medical Insurance including dental, vision & mental health therapy, • Bi-annual performance reviews and tailored development plans, • Competitive salary + EMI options scheme, • Annual compensation review, • Team lunch provided once a week, • Quarterly team socials and annual sports day (HIVED Olympics), • Enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption policy as day 1 right, • Community volunteer days, • Cycle to work scheme, • Dog friendly office and depots, • MacBook Air or Windows Laptop (depending on your preference), • Meet the team in 60 seconds: Behind the scenes with HIVED, • HIVED is B Corporation certified, • HIVED is #7 on The Sunday Times Tech 100, • Read how HIVED raised $42M to transform parcel delivery with AI and all-electric logistics network, • Check the Impact Reports for 2024 and 2025, • Keep up with HIVED here #J-18808-Ljbffr