What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director of Planning and Manufacturing position at SUNSWEET GROWERS INC.?
This role reports to Vice President of Manufacturing with a strong dotted line to the Chief Financial Officer. The success of this position is based upon communicating financial information and manufacturing indicators. This role is foundational with a potential transition into the Head of Grower Accounting or Chief Financial Officer.
- Monthly Operations Reporting
- Conduct monthly review meetings with operations department heads.
- Provide direct labor analysis comparing standard usage and dollars to actual usage and dollars for each cost center.
- Provide Cost Center variance reporting and analysis.
- Provide usage reporting and yield analysis.
- Provide periodic manufacturing and PPV analysis.
- Perform Ad hoc costing analysis and costing of products.
- Company Wide Budgeting and Forecasting
- Build a planning and analysis team.
- Manage quarterly and annual Planning and Budget meetings.
- Develop presentations for the board presenting company results and forecasts.
- Inventory Management
- Manage recording of consumption, receipt and transfer of inventory
- Manage implementation of new products.
- Review bill of materials.
- Manage year end physical inventory
- Direct Labor reporting
- Determine standard labor rates for all job codes.
- Review work order labor postings for accuracy.
- Review labor routings for accuracy.
- Assist with union contract negotiations.
- Financial Analysis & Audit
- Determine cash flow, NPV, IRR and payback period for capital investments.
- Provide comparative analysis on co-pack versus internal production costs.
- Assist with monthly COGS and balance sheet variance analysis
- Provide annual audit inventory reports
- Provide Annual inventory reports for tax purposes.
- Provide updated transferred price worksheet, calculation, and related accounting entries
- Update standard costs for copack and Chilean business.
- Customer Co-pack Management
- Determine appropriate co-pack fee for new co-pack customers. Review process requirements (labor staffing / through put) and supplied materials.
- Determine system requirements for material transactions/ COGS postings and sales processing.
- Vendor Co-Pack Management
- Review and approve vender co-pack fees
- Provide vender analysis regarding yield and comparative pack fees as required.
- Determine system requirements and inventory processes.
- Systems
- The company is converting to SAP/Hana in 2023. This role will be responsible for managing the transition for the accounting area within the manufacturing environment
Qualifications
- Planning system experience with sophisticated ERP systems such as Adaptive Insights, Microsoft Dynamics, or SAP
- Minimum of 15 years experience in manufacturing or agricultural environment
- Business intelligence experience
- Preferred: MBA or CPA
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)
Salary : $130,000 - $0
