Commercial Finance and Asset Strategy Director - Nonwovens

• Partner with Business, Sales, and Functional leaders to develop and execute integrated commercial, operational, and financial strategies aligned to enterprise priorities
• Translate market, customer, and competitive insights into actionable commercial strategies, capacity plans, and contingency scenarios
• Lead long-range planning, annual operating plans, and rolling forecasts, ensuring clear linkage between demand, service strategy, capacity, and financial outcomes
• Own scenario modeling, risk assessment, and investment analysis to support pricing, growth initiatives, capacity actions, and capital allocation
• Clearly communicate the short- and long-term business narrative to senior leadership and enterprise forums
• Engage with product, marketing, and customer teams to understand business drivers and support commercial investments
• Own the integrated P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, and working capital performance for the business
• Lead budgeting, forecasting, and variance analysis across commercial, supply chain, and service activities
• Own the SIP governance, including setting SIP targets aligned to business objectives and determining individual sales incentive payouts based on performance results
• Ensure strong financial controls, compliance (GAAP, SOX), and asset protection in partnership with Corporate Accounting, Audit, Tax, Legal, and Shared Services
• Establish a strong 'tone at the top' for ethics, governance, and financial discipline
• Own asset strategy, utilization, and return on invested capital (ROIC) for the business
• Partner with manufacturing finance on capital investment analysis, prioritization, and post-investment reviews to ensure value creation
• Partner with Operations and Engineering on asset lifecycle decisions, capacity expansions, rationalization, and redeployment—without direct ownership of manufacturing execution
• Drive transparency and governance around fixed assets, capacity assumptions, and long-term supply economics
• Apply senior-level judgment to balance regional operating models, capacity trade-offs, and capital decisions in complex and differentiated global environments
• Set and lead the global S&OP and capacity planning strategy, ensuring alignment between demand, service commitments, asset availability, and financial performance
• Balance demand and supply to optimize customer service, inventory quality, working capital, and cost-to-serve
• Lead risk management for capacity constraints, supply disruptions, and geopolitical impacts
• Provide forward-looking insights to anticipate gaps and enable proactive, enterprise-level decisions
• Set and execute the customer service and supply chain strategy across order management, inventory, logistics, and fulfillment
• Establish service level goals and ensure consistent, reliable delivery aligned with customer expectations and commercial priorities
• Embed voice-of-the-customer insights into planning and execution to deliver 'easiest to do business with' outcomes
• Partner closely with Procurement, Logistics, and third-party providers to optimize service, reliability, and total delivered cost
• Champion the adoption of technology, automation, and innovative tools to improve insight, efficiency, and effectiveness across finance, planning and supply chain processes
• Own integrated performance management, reporting, forecasting, and planning systems
• Lead enterprise and regional system implementations and continuous improvement initiatives
• Build, develop, and retain a diverse, high-performing global team across Finance, Planning, and Customer Service
• Create strong succession pipelines and capability development in commercial acumen, analytics, and enterprise thinking
• Act as a coach and educator to non-financial leaders on business, financial, and supply chain fundamentals
• Foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Actively mentor and sponsor talent across the broader enterprise, not only within the direct team

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Supply Chain, Business, Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience across Finance, Commercial, and/or Supply Chain roles
• Proven success in large, global, matrixed organizations
• Experience leading strategic planning, S&OP, capacity strategy, and capital investment decisions
• Demonstrated ability to operate across economic cycles and complex global environments
• Strong financial, operational, and commercial acumen
• Strong financial and analytical acumen with demonstrated analytical ability accompanied by knowledge of corporate finance and manufacturing costing principles—understands P&L and balance sheet dynamics
• Demonstrated ability to teach and communicate in simple, impacting terms and deliver candid insights
• Demonstrated ability to manage and control costs—effectively develops business cases and enroll leaders at all levels in taking appropriate action
• Demonstrated ability to develop an intimate knowledge of customers, competition, and the market and uses this knowledge to drive customer and product profitability decisions
• Demonstrated ability to lead with an enterprise mindset, translate strategy into action, and inspire followership across functions
• Strong Microsoft Office Suite (Excel and PowerPoint) skills
• Influential leadership across functions, geographies, and seniority levels
• Distills multiple points of view and inputs to develop near and long-term actions
• Effective listening skills, with flexibility in approach to solutions
• Makes decisions and commits to a course of action with appropriate information and recognizes uncertainty of success
• weighs and manages risk in decision making
• Change leadership mindset with a bias for action and results
• Broad operating style, ability to adapt across cultures, environments and styles
• Forward-thinking leadership abilities, including the ability to motivate, lead by example and encourage teamwork and effective communication

MBA, CPA, CMA, or equivalent