Head of Commercial Finance

LOCATION: ZURICH

One of the fastest-growing premium sportswear brands is seeking for a Head of Commercial Finance to join the fast-paced Commercial Finance team. With your business partnering experience and your top-notch analytical skills, your mission is to be the financial navigator and partner to our industry-leading commercial team, creating value by providing insights and supporting decision making. Critical to the success of this role is a collaborative and curious mindset, a desire to drive On's growth journey and an ability to understand your audience and communicate your message clearly.

Strategic Planning & Pricing:

• Lead the Commercial Long-Range Plan (LRP) and support business case development for innovation, trade terms, and account P&L strategies.
• Partner with regional CFOs to develop account/channel cost-to-serve models and identify new commercial opportunities.
• Steer the Pricing board by contributing with the improvement of our retail pricing strategy alongside the Pricing team, including following-up the price positioning of our various markets, suggest price updates and simulate the impacts in net sales and margin.

Insights & Reporting:

• Develop scalable, standardized reporting infrastructure across channels and markets, integrating sell-in, sell-out, and market data alongside Commercial Analytics team.
• Define and align KPIs, ensuring consistent reporting for both management and operational needs.
• Build scalable reporting infrastructure that integrates forecast, sell-in, sell-out, and sell-through data to create a full view of performance across channels and markets alongside Commercial Analytics team.
• Proactively surface performance trends (e.g., inventory buildup, pricing pressure) and drive follow-up actions.
• Provide ad-hoc analytics support to senior stakeholders (e.g., Management Teams).

Data Enablement & Governance:

• Educate teams on the use of data platforms and tools, creating training materials and sharing best practices.
• Facilitate regular analytics roundtables to align cross-regional and cross-functional insights (e.g., Ecom, Merchandising, Controlling).
• Shape the roadmap for new analytics use cases together with global and regional leadership.

• 8-10 years experience in Controlling, FP&A or Business Partnering in an agile, high-growth environment.
• Education in the field of Business Administration or Finance.
• Strong understanding of margin structures, pricing dynamics, lifecycle economics, and investment decision-making.
• Experience in sales controlling; pricing background is a plus.
• Exceptional analytical skills, the ability to combine classical metrics with innovative storytelling, and a philosophy of letting data find a voice.
• Cross-functional team-worker, able to demystify data and provide the support to the business to deliver the wow.
• Excellent English skills.
• Have a valid work permit for Switzerland.
• Fluent in financial systems and tools (Looker, BI in general, Anaplan, Google Sheets), with a passion for analytics and scalability.

We are the advanced navigators at On. We partner across functions to steer the business by analyzing the past and predicting the future. We specialize in accurate planning, relevant analysis and clear and simple reporting to drive impactful actions. We work across On, with every team, to gain insights into the business from different perspectives, and to ensure that all of our numbers are accurate and understood. If you are passionate about analytics, excited about understanding what makes On the fastest-growing running brand in the world, and are eager to work cross-functionally to deliver insights and analytics - come and join us

Just by the banks of the Limmat you'll find our largest global hub in Zürich West – On Labs – where you can hike up 12 floors through our custom-built spiral trail.

Förrlibuckstrasse 190,

8005

Switzerland

HEAD OF GROUP PLANNING & ANALYTICS CONTROLLING

I'm challenged every day with new learnings, new perspectives and new technologies. I can feel that my horizon expands as our business grows. I'm on this exciting journey of never-ending personal development, which is crucial to me.

On is a place that is centered around growth and progress. We offer an environment designed to give people the tools to develop holistically – to stay active, to learn, explore and innovate. Our distinctive approach combines a supportive, team-oriented atmosphere, with access to personal self-care for both physical and mental well-being, so each person is led by purpose.

On is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that is fair and inclusive, where all decisions related to recruitment, advancement, and retention are free of discrimination.

Build the better you

We want to set everyone up for success, so here's the lowdown on how we hire. Our process is a two-way street – bringing you into our culture, while helping us learn how you think.

Our full process can last about eight weeks from application to offer, because we care about getting it right. These steps explain how we usually do things.

Before you get started, feel free to consider if you want to work with us. Strange question? Well, we give people a lot of space to navigate their day-to-day and that style isn't for everyone. We want you to be passionate about what you do and be sure this is the right fit. Because when skills and passion combine – it creates that 'Wow' moment.