Associate Director, Supply Chain Finance

Home Market Foods•Norwood, MA

6h•$185,000 - $200,000

About The Position

The Associate Director, Supply Chain Finance reports directly to the Chief Financial Officer and serves as the finance business partner for Procurement, Freight & Warehouse. This individual contributor 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. The role is a key member of the senior finance leadership team. The position partners across Finance, Procurement, Supply Planning, Logistics, Warehouse, R&D, Marketing, Sales, and Commercial leadership. It leads Supply Chain cost planning and performance analysis, identifies and tracks cost savings, supports SKU optimization, and develops reporting and systems improvements that strengthen cost visibility.

Requirements

7+ years of progressive finance experience, with significant experience in supply chain, procurement, or cost finance.
Strong command of standard costing, BOMs, and direct material cost drivers.
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 and BI dashboard experience.
Exceptional communication skills, including the ability to explain cost drivers to non-finance audiences.
Bachelor's degree in Finance or Accounting required.
Strong ability to demonstrate the Company's Ingredients of Success: customer value, teamwork, risk-taking, innovation, positive accountability, and a results-driven mindset.

Nice To Haves

Food or CPG manufacturing experience.
Experience with meat or other commodity-driven inputs.
D365 experience.
MBA or CPA/CMA.

Responsibilities

Partner with R&D and Marketing to cost new formulas throughout the New Product Development process, from concept through commercialization.
Build and explain direct material, packaging, meat formula, and related logistics costs to support pricing for new deal proposals.
Provide Sales Finance and Commercial leadership with cost inputs for margin decisions on new items and customer proposals.
Own direct material and packaging costs in Bills of Materials (BOMs) in D365, including standards accuracy and the annual cost roll.
Translate market trends and movements in input and packaging costs into financial forecasts, budgets, and plans in partnership with the Senior Director, Procurement and Commodity Risk.
Advise Procurement on inventory build costs and benefits, considering carrying cost and cost of capital.
Partner with Procurement on purchasing strategy, supplier cost changes, and price variance analysis.
Serve as 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.
Reflect Supply Planning plans in financial forecasts and budgets in support of the Senior Director, Supply Chain.
Lead 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 monthly Integrated Business Planning (IBP) supply review and keep cost assumptions aligned with demand and supply plans.
Monitor results against budget and forecast, explain underlying drivers, and recommend corrective actions.
Identify and quantify cost savings opportunities and track delivery of Procurement and Supply Chain savings initiatives.
Own month-end and mid-month KPI reporting for Supply Chain costs 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.
Serve as a trusted finance advisor to Procurement, Supply Planning, Logistics, and Warehouse leadership, influencing decisions across functions.
Partner with Commercial Finance, Corporate FP&A, Cost Accounting, and the Plant Controllers at Norwood and South Windsor.
Drive accountability for cost targets and promote continuous improvement.