Director, Enterprise Operations, FP&A

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Fully responsible for supply chain costs of our Milk, Snack, and Meals and Sides businesses both individually and in consolidation including raw and pack materials, inbound logistics, plant and co-manufacturing operating expenses, warehouse, transportation, and capital project justification.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and development to a cross-functional finance team supporting key business and operational functions.
• Analyze monthly operational metrics and present findings and recommendations to senior supply chain management.
• Drive best in class financial practices across manufacturing, co-manufacturing, and logistics network.
• Establish and maintain organization's manufacturing accounting principles, practices, procedures, and initiatives.
• Responsible for annual budgeting, quarterly forecasts, monthly mid-month reviews, and all financial reporting of supply chain financial results.
• Lead monthly meetings and review schedules with corporate finance and supply chain teams.
• Analyze manufacturing and co-manufacturing cost trends with comparisons to budgets and forecast and recommend areas for improvement.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives across the supply chain organization.
• Work closely with supply chain team to achieve business objectives through efficient cost control.
• Work closely with director of private label sales to drive private label pricing and cost strategies.
• Work closely with procurement management on commodity trends, supplier contracts, and hedging activity.
• Work closely with supply chain and marketing teams on product innovation, pricing studies, and alternative formulations for cost savings initiatives.
• Develop, maintain and implement effective audit and internal control procedures.
• Manage a multi-million-dollar capital projects budget, including strategic planning, forecasting, and ROI/payback analysis.
• Acts as a key financial resource for EVP of Supply Chain and his team, including integral involvement in strategic decision making and project management.
• Key leader in Monthly Business Planning meetings, bringing key business performance insights to the operations and supply chain teams.
• Ability to travel approximately 15% of the time, typically 3 days per month, with additional travel required occasionally based on business needs.

Qualifications:

•  Bachelor's Degree in accounting, finance, economics or business (Masters Degree preferred)
• Familiarity with a variety of manufacturing concepts, practices and procedures
• Understanding of ERP systems and ability to leverage these tools to drive cost transparency
• Extensive experience and ability to plan and accomplish goals
• Creative leader with broad vision
• Effective team skills
• Excellent listening skills
• Skill in preparing presentations including tables, graphs and charts
• Strong analytical skills

 Competencies:

• Expert Excel user with ability to quickly learn and leverage additional accounting/enterprise systems
• Astute Financial Management
• Business acumen
• Leadership and Strategic Thinking
• Drives for results
• Collaborates effectively
• Change management
• Creates Alignment and Engagement on team
• Effective Communication and Influencing skills
• Quality decision-making
• Builds strong teams
• Performance Management
• Build effective relationships with internal and external constituents

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to use hands to finger, handle, or touch objects or controls.  The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, sit, reach above shoulders, taste and/or smell, or talk and/or hear.

The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.  Specific vision requirements of this job include close vision, peripheral vision, color vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Working Conditions: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.

The employee occasionally works in proximity to fumes or air-borne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and in non-weather related extreme cold. 

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.