Associate Director - Supply Chain Finance

Pay Range: $185,000/yr. – $200,000/yr. based on experience and qualifications.

The Associate Director, Supply Chain Finance, reports directly to the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and is the finance business partner for Procurement, Freight & Warehouse. The role owns direct material and packaging costs, translates Procurement and Supply Planning inputs into financial forecasts and budgets, supports new product and customer pricing decisions with accurate cost inputs, partners on freight, warehouse, outside storage (3PL), and co-manufacturing costs, and owns month-end and mid-month KPI reporting for Supply Chain costs. This is an individual contributor role and a key member of the senior finance leadership team.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Product Costing & New Product Development

• Partner with R&D and Marketing to cost new formulas as part of the New Product Development process, from concept through commercialization.

• Support pricing for new deal proposals by building and explaining direct material, packaging, and meat formula costs, along with the related logistics costs.

• Give Sales Finance and Commercial leadership clear cost inputs for margin decisions on new items and customer proposals.

Direct Materials & Market Intelligence

• Serve as the key owner of direct material and packaging costs in the Bills of Materials (BOMs) in D365, including accuracy of standards and the annual cost roll.

• Partner with the Senior Director, Procurement and Commodity Risk, who leads market intelligence on input and packaging costs, to translate market trends and movements into financial forecasts, budgets, and plans.

• Advise Procurement on the cost and benefit of inventory builds, weighing carrying cost and cost of capital to inform what to build, for which lines of business, and for how long.

• Partner with Procurement on purchasing strategy, supplier cost changes, and price variance analysis.

Freight, Warehouse & Co-Manufacturing

• Serve as the dedicated Finance partner for freight, warehouse, outside storage (3PL), and co-manufacturing costs.

• Collaborate with Sales Finance to implement freight surcharges when appropriate.

• Analyze cost drivers, KPIs, and variances to budget and forecast, and recommend corrective actions.

Planning & Performance Management

• Support the Senior Director, Supply Chain on supply planning by reflecting those plans in financial forecasts and budgets.

• Lead the supply chain portions of the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), Latest Estimates (LE), and long-range plan for direct materials, freight, warehouse, and co-manufacturing costs.

• Support SKU optimization and rationalization with SKU-level cost and margin analysis, partnering with Supply Chain and Commercial Finance.

• Represent Finance in the supply review of the monthly Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process, keeping cost assumptions aligned with demand and supply plans.

• Monitor results against budget and forecast, explain the underlying drivers, and recommend corrective actions.

• Identify and quantify cost savings opportunities, and track delivery of Procurement and Supply Chain savings initiatives.

Systems, Reporting & Analytics

• Own month-end and mid-month KPI reporting for Supply Chain costs, delivered through Power BI dashboards for Procurement, Supply Chain, Freight & Warehouse leadership.

• Partner with IT and Business Applications on system improvements that strengthen cost visibility and automate manual analysis.

Leadership & Business Partnership

• Serve as the trusted finance advisor to Procurement, Supply Planning, Logistics, and Warehouse leadership, and influence decisions across functions.

• Partner closely with Commercial Finance, Corporate FP&A, Cost Accounting, and the Plant Controllers at Norwood and South Windsor.

• Drive accountability for cost targets and promote a culture of continuous improvement.

WHAT YOU BRING

• 7+ years of progressive finance experience, with significant time in supply chain, procurement, or cost finance (food or CPG manufacturing preferred).

• Strong command of standard costing, BOMs, and direct material cost drivers; experience with meat or other commodity-driven inputs is a plus.

• Experience analyzing freight, warehouse, outside storage (3PL), and co-manufacturing costs, including cost-to-serve analysis and SKU rationalization.

• Demonstrated ability to partner with and influence senior operations and commercial leaders.

• Advanced financial modeling skills; ERP (D365 preferred) and BI dashboard experience.

• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to explain cost drivers to non-finance audiences.

• Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting required; MBA or CPA/CMA preferred.

• Strong ability to demonstrate the Company's Ingredients of Success: customer value, teamwork, risk-taking, innovation, positive accountability, and a results-driven mindset.