Director, Manufacturing Operations FP&A

• ◆Put safety first – Always!
• ◆Lead and foster our “people first” culture.
• ◆Forecasting & Planning
• ◆Support monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasting for manufacturing, procurement, and logistics, including volume, material costs, inbound and outbound freight, warehousing, and distribution costs.
• ◆Establish and govern driver-based models that project operational and financial performance under multiple demand, production, sourcing, commodity, freight, and capacity scenarios.
• ◆Direct the cross-functional planning process with operations, engineering, procurement, logistics, and supply chain leaders to validate assumptions, reconcile operational plans, and align forecast inputs.
• ◆Own the annual operating plan and long-range financial planning processes for the manufacturing network, including productivity roadmaps, capacity requirements, sourcing strategies, logistics costs, and capital needs.
• ◆Prepare bridge analyses that clearly explain financial forecast-to-forecast and forecast-to-plan variances.
• ◆Develop executive-level scenarios and recommendations that quantify trade-offs among cost, capacity, inventory, customer service, sourcing risk, and capital deployment.
• ◆Define planning standards, calendars, assumptions, and review routines to improve forecast accuracy and accountability across functions and locations.
• ◆Operational & Financial Analysis
• ◆Analyze actual manufacturing results including productivity, material usage, downtime, labor efficiency, machine utilization, and OEE.
• ◆Deliver monthly financial KPI reporting packages with clear commentary and recommendations.
• ◆Perform variance analysis on production costs, inventory, and plant performance.
• ◆Investigate root causes of unfavorable trends and partner on corrective actions.
• ◆Monitor and analyze inventory accuracy, production variances, waste, and yield.
• ◆Evaluate cost impacts of engineering changes, process improvements, and capital projects.
• ◆Procurement & Logistics FP&A
• ◆Lead financial planning and performance analysis for direct and indirect procurement, inbound and outbound logistics, warehousing, distribution, and third-party service providers.
• ◆Partner with procurement to evaluate supplier negotiations, sourcing events, make-versus-buy decisions, contract economics, commodity exposure, purchase price variance, and total cost of ownership.
• ◆Partner with logistics and operations to analyze freight rates, mode and carrier mix, fuel and accessorial charges, network design, warehouse productivity, inventory positioning, detention, demurrage, and service-level trade-offs.
• ◆Build savings and productivity governance that validates baselines, timing, one-time costs, risk adjustments, and realized P&L and cash-flow benefits.
• ◆Provide financial support for supplier and carrier scorecards, procurement pipelines, logistics bids, and network-optimization initiatives.
• ◆Assess working-capital implications of sourcing and logistics decisions, including payment terms, order quantities, lead times, safety stock, inventory turns, and obsolescence risk.
• ◆Leadership & Business Partnership
• ◆Serve as the senior finance advisor to manufacturing, procurement, logistics, and corporate leadership, shaping decisions and constructively challenging operating assumptions.
• ◆Present concise, decision-oriented insights and recommendations to executive leadership, including risks, opportunities, sensitivities, and required actions.
• ◆Lead, develop, and retain a high-performing FP&A team; set priorities, establish performance expectations, provide coaching, and build succession and analytical capabilities.
• ◆Build strong relationships across operations, engineering, procurement, logistics, supply chain, accounting, treasury, and finance while maintaining clear ownership and accountability.
• ◆Create and maintain standardized KPI definitions, reporting governance, and management review routines across the manufacturing and supply chain network.
• ◆Sponsor process, data, and systems improvements that increase forecast quality, analytical speed, scalability, and decision usefulness.
• ◆Influence cross-functional leaders without direct authority and ensure agreed actions are assigned, measured, and completed.
• ◆Other duties as assigned

We are looking for leaders with a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Engineering, Supply Chain, or related field and 10+ years of progressive experience in manufacturing finance, FP&A, supply chain finance, procurement finance, logistics finance, or plant controllership.

• ✓Required Skills & Experience
• ✓Experience leading complex cross-functional planning and decision-support processes.
• ✓Demonstrated experience leading forecasting, operational modeling, variance analysis, annual planning, long-range planning, and executive decision support in a multi-site environment.
• ✓Prior people-leadership experience, including developing finance talent and leading through influence across operational fu