Commercial & Product Finance Director / Commercial & Product Finance Directoress

On AG - September 30, 2025

Job Title: Director – Commercial & Product Finance

At On, the Finance team plays a vital role in shaping strategy, enabling innovation, and fueling sustainable growth. As the Director – Commercial & Product Finance, you will serve as a senior strategic partner and co-pilot to the Chief Product Officer and Chief Commercial Officer. Your expertise will help them navigate complex, fast-evolving business decisions with financial clarity and conviction. This role goes beyond guiding strategic priorities; it focuses on anchoring them financially, translating ambition into tangible value through rigorous financial thinking and multi-dimensional modeling to ensure that key initiatives are both visionary and financially sound.

You will provide the analytical and financial backbone across the product lifecycle—from early innovation to commercial execution—empowering leadership with insights to optimize margins, allocate resources, and scale into new markets and categories. Additionally, you will maintain tight control over the respective budgets and commercial contracts within the product and commercial domains, ensuring financial discipline and accountability throughout.

Leading a focused team and reporting to the Deputy CFO, you will build the financial structure to support profitable growth, shape planning and reporting tools, and strengthen the connection between product, commercial, and finance strategies. You will play an influential role within the broader Finance leadership team and work closely with the Group CFO.

Your Mission

  • Act as a thought partner and financial co-pilot to the CPO and CCO, bringing clarity and structure to complex decisions through data-driven insights.
  • Drive margin ownership and cost transparency across the full product lifecycle, enabling smarter pricing, investment, and portfolio choices.
  • Lead the financial framing of line planning, margin targets, and assortment strategies to support category and market expansion.
  • Track and communicate lifecycle and performance KPIs, identifying risks, opportunities, and action levers across drops and product investments.
  • Own and align the product-side LRP and business cases, supporting innovation, trade terms, and account P&L strategy. You will also be a key contributor to the Commercial LRP, working closely with channel and regional teams to ensure a cohesive and financially grounded long-range plan.
  • Build scalable reporting infrastructure, maintain clean data standards, and provide the analytical tools necessary to run product and commercial finance at scale.
  • Ensure tight cross-functional collaboration with FP&A, Controlling, IBP, and regional teams to link product insights to overall commercial performance.

Your Story

  • 10+ years of experience in strategic or commercial finance, preferably in consumer goods, tech, or a high-growth environment.
  • Proven ability to act as a senior strategic business partner to C-level leaders, especially in product and commercial contexts.
  • Strong understanding of margin structures, pricing dynamics, lifecycle economics, and investment decision-making.
  • Experienced in navigating complexity, ambiguity, and trade-offs with a proactive, forward-thinking mindset.
  • Skilled in building and interpreting complex models while connecting numbers to strategic narratives.
  • Fluent in financial systems and tools (e.g., SAP, Anaplan, Google Sheets), with a passion for analytics and scalability.
  • Collaborative leader with high emotional intelligence and the ability to influence across functions and levels.

Meet the Team

You will work alongside the Deputy CFO and the broader Finance leadership team, shaping how Finance enables growth, innovation, and operational focus. You will also serve as a trusted counterpart to Product and Commercial leaders, ensuring Finance is a forward-thinking, high-impact business partner on On’s journey to reimagine movement for the world.

What We Offer

On is a place centered around growth and progress. We provide an environment designed to give people the tools to develop holistically—to stay active, 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, allowing each person to be guided 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.

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Location : Zürich
Country : Switzerland

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