Senior Global Store Performance Controller
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Global Store Performance Controller optimizing ALDI’s international retail analytics and financial performance. Building benchmarks, analyzing store economics, and advising senior stakeholders using Power BI and SAP.
Responsibilities:
- Own and continuously enhance the global analytical framework for store performance
- Define financial and operational KPIs consistently across countries, store formats and maturity stages
- Analyse large store portfolios to identify patterns, outliers and structural performance gaps
- Separate controllable operational drivers from market, format, location and maturity effects
- Assess performance potential at store, cluster, region and country level
- Prioritise opportunities based on value, feasibility and expected business impact
- Build driver trees and explain variances across sales, gross profit, labour productivity, operating costs, inventory losses and store contribution
- Partner with country Finance and Operations teams to validate findings and convert analysis into improvement hypotheses and measurable follow-up actions
- Develop global benchmarks, peer groups, store ramp-up curves, portfolio segmentation, trend and cohort analyses, and scenario-based business cases
- Design management-ready performance narratives using Power BI, SAP and other relevant data sources
- Provide concise, fact-based recommendations to senior stakeholders
- Contribute to global performance steering standards and reporting solutions
Requirements:
- Several years of relevant experience in controlling, FP&A, commercial analytics or performance management, ideally in grocery retail, multi-site retail or another operational network business
- University degree in business administration, finance, economics, business analytics, data science or a comparable discipline
- Strong track record of analysing large and heterogeneous datasets, identifying root causes and converting findings into commercially relevant recommendations
- Advanced knowledge of Power BI, including data modelling, Power Query and DAX
- Strong Excel capabilities
- Practical experience with SAP, SAP BW and/or S/4HANA is highly valuable
- Sound understanding of store economics and key retail drivers such as sales density, gross margin, labour productivity, shrink, occupancy costs, store maturity and contribution profitability
- Ability to distinguish correlation from causation, challenge data and assumptions constructively, and communicate limitations transparently
- Confidence working with international stakeholders, balancing global comparability with local business realities, and influencing without direct authority
- Excellent English skills
- German is an advantage but not essential
Benefits:
- Flexible working environment (Flexitime, remote work options within Austria and abroad, 6 weeks of annual leave)
- Health & wellbeing support (Wellpass membership, mental health support, wellbeing initiatives)
- Personal and professional development opportunities
- International and collaborative working environment
- Modern workplace and mobile devices to support flexible working
- Restaurant, free fruit and beverages
- Sustainable mobility support (Public transport subsidy and bike leasing)
- Employee discounts across shopping, travel, sports and health services
- Relocation support
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