Your Tasks
The Team Lead Bonus Controlling within MediaMarkt is responsible for the day-to-day leadership, development, and performance of the team. In this role, you combine hands-on people leadership with strong financial and business acumen, ensuring the delivery of accurate, timely, and high-quality bonus controlling activities.
You will play a pivotal role in stabilizing core Bonus Controlling operations, eliminating historical backlogs, and embedding sustainable process improvements. In parallel, you act as a key driver and partner in the execution of the 18-month Bonus Controlling Improvement Plan, supporting a structured transformation agenda across processes, systems, and ways of working.
With strong exposure to senior stakeholders across Procurement and Finance, this role offers meaningful ownership, high visibility, and the opportunity to leave a tangible footprint within a complex, international organization.
Key responsibilities
1. Team Leadership & Management
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of 6 Bonus Controllers, ensuring high-quality and timely reporting and analysis.
- Foster an inclusive, performance-oriented culture with clear accountability, ownership, and collaboration.
- Identify skill and development needs and implement tailored learning and development plans.
- Ensure clear role definitions, efficient task allocation, and balanced workload distribution.
2. Transformation & Improvement Support
- Actively support and help drive the execution of the 18-month Bonus Controlling Improvement Plan.
- Lead initiatives to clean up historical backlogs and improve data accuracy, completeness, and integrity.
- Contribute to stabilizing and improving the bonus invoicing process in close collaboration with Procurement, Finance, and other internal stakeholders.
- Co-develop and support the implementation of structural process improvements and new ways of working.
- Monitor progress of improvement initiatives and provide transparent reporting, insights, and recommendations to the Head of Procurement Controlling.
3. Process & Results Management
- Ensure accurate and compliant monthly bonus controlling processes, including accrual accuracy, forecasting, and reporting.
- Support the definition and implementation of KPIs, dashboards, and performance tracking to increase transparency and drive continuous improvement.
- Act as a strong business partner to Procurement and Finance, translating complex data into clear insights and decision-support.
- Lead and coordinate internal and external audits related to bonus controlling activities.
4. Leadership by Example
- Role-model expected behaviors, ownership, and high standards of delivery.
- Promote a collaborative, solution-oriented mindset within the team and across stakeholder groups.
- Balance hands-on operational support with strategic thinking and continuous improvement focus.
Your Profile
- +5 years of proven experience in controlling, finance, or a related field, preferably within a complex or international environment.
- Preferably work experience in the Retail or FMCG sector
- Bachelor in Controlling, Accountancy, Finance Management or any other related education
- Demonstrated people leadership experience, ideally leading or coaching teams.
- Strong analytical skills with a hands-on, results-driven mindset.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
- Fluent in English, Dutch is a pré
Additional Benefits
- An, without exaggeration, amazing workplace on the 40th floor of De Rotterdam, overlooking the iconic Erasmus Bridge.
- Excellent employment conditions, with plenty of opportunities to grow and develop.
- The freedom and responsibility to shape your own role and bring your ideas to life in an environment where anything is possible.
- The chance to achieve outstanding results together as a team , because you simply love to win.
- AtMediaMarkt, we're bold. We're entrepreneurs within the company, which means you'll have the opportunity to grow quickly and develop yourself in many directions.
In addition to an amazing workplace, you'll also enjoy 30 vacation days, an attractive employee discount, company fitness and bike lease options, and discounts on various insurance products
About Us
You are full of energy and truly come alive in a dynamic, sometimes chaotic environment. Variety and unexpected situations motivate you, and you believe that success is achieved together, even if that sometimes means putting your own plans on hold. Does this sound like you? Then you're a perfect fit for MediaMarkt!
At MediaMarkt, everything is built around the "Let's Go!" mentality: not just a slogan, but a way of working and thinking. We love technology and enjoy sharing this passion with others. We have fun in what we do and aim to inspire. As the number one in the Benelux and Europe, we help shape how people experience and use technology. We make a difference and are ready for our customers across all channels. Together with over 50,000 colleagues across Europe, we are building the retail experience of the future every day.
We believe that the best solutions arise when diverse perspectives come together. Diversity is key to achieving our vision: becoming the Experience Champion in consumer electronics. We value diversity, promote equal opportunities, and foster inclusion. Will you become part of our team?