Job Description
Our Client
Our client is a large-scale food manufacturing and distribution business in Saudi Arabia with complex manufacturing, supply chain, distribution, and commercial operations.
As the business continues to strengthen its performance and growth agenda, they are looking for a commercially driven and operational Chief Financial Officer to lead the full finance function and partner closely with the CEO and senior leadership team.
Role Overview
This is not a traditional reporting-led CFO role. You will play a central role in improving profitable growth, manufacturing performance, working capital, and cash generation across the business.
Leading a finance organisation of 100+ people, you will work closely with Commercial, Manufacturing, Procurement, Supply Chain, and Distribution leadership.
The mandate requires someone who understands exactly how a high-volume food manufacturing and distribution business makes and loses money—from ingredients and packaging through manufacturing, warehousing, route-to-market, and final customer sale.
Key Responsibilities
- Drive profitable growth through rigorous pricing, trade-spend, promotion, customer, channel, and product-profitability management
- Strengthen manufacturing economics across raw materials, conversion costs, yield, waste, productivity, and capacity utilisation
- Improve working capital and cash conversion through tighter control of receivables, credit, collections, inventory, expiry risk, supplier payments, and cash forecasting
- Translate complex financial and operational data into clear, timely management decisions
- Challenge sales forecasts, revenue assumptions, promotional plans, and route-to-market investments where commercial returns are not sufficiently supported
- Partner with Manufacturing and Supply Chain leadership to improve productivity, cost control, yield, planning, and inventory discipline
- Evaluate CAPEX and expansion proposals across manufacturing capacity, automation, warehousing, fleet, equipment, and distribution infrastructure
- Identify and address underperforming customers, channels, territories, products, SKUs, and commercial agreements
- Lead fact-based business performance reviews that drive decisions, ownership, and accountability
- Strengthen financial controls, management reporting, planning, and performance management across the organisation
- Build and develop a high-performing finance organisation with strong capability and leadership depth
Must-Have
- 18+ years of progressive finance experience with substantial senior finance leadership and operating P&L responsibility
- Senior-level experience as a CFO, Finance Director, or operating-finance leader within food manufacturing, FMCG manufacturing and distribution, or a comparable high-volume consumer business
- Strong commercial finance expertise across pricing, gross-to-net, trade spend, promotions, and customer/channel profitability
- Deep manufacturing finance experience covering costing, raw materials, conversion costs, yield, waste, inventory, and supply chain economics
- Strong understanding of working capital, cash conversion, credit, collections, inventory management, and cash forecasting
- Proven experience leading sizeable, multi-layered finance organisations
- Ability to challenge and influence senior Commercial, Manufacturing, Procurement, and Supply Chain stakeholders
- Strong commercial judgement with the ability to turn financial and operational data into decisive business actions
- Fluency in both English and Arabic
Next Steps
Upload your resume via our ATS platform and ensure all form details are complete. Shortlisted candidates will be contacted within 5–7 working days for a more detailed discussion about the role. Please note, due to high application volumes, we will only respond to shortlisted profiles.