Director, Enterprise Operations, FP&A

At Eagle Foods we are builders.  We are builders of brands, categories, and people.  Eagle Foods enjoys a rich heritage with brands that have proven category leadership for more than 150 years.  Eagle is a diversified food company producing and marketing sweetened condensed and evaporated milk, snacks and convenient meal solutions products.  As a company, Eagle Foods is passionate about fostering an entrepreneurial spirit that boldly builds better people and better brands while focusing on the positive impact our company, our products and our people have on the world.  Eagle Foods has a bold family of brands that consumers have come to rely on for decades, including Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk and Evaporated Milk, Magnolia® Sweetened Condensed Milk, PET® Milk, Popcorn Indiana, Cretors Popcorn, Helper and Suddenly Salad.  Eagle Foods products are marketed and distributed across all U.S. retail channels, including grocery stores, club stores and mass-merchandisers, as well as foodservice and export, U.S. military, and private label business.

• →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.

•  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

• 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

Eagle Foods is an equal employment opportunity employer. The Company’s policy is not to discriminate against any applicant or employee based on race, color, sex, religion, national origin, age, disability, military status, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Eagle Foods also prohibits harassment of applicants or employees based on any of these protected categories. It is also Eagle Foods’s policy to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws respecting consideration of unemployment status in making hiring decisions.