Experienced Customer Finance Senior Manager – Strategic Planning & Financial Leadership

At arenaflex, we're dedicated to growing good and making a positive impact on the world. As a leading food company, we're committed to providing premium-quality meal ingredients, snacks, and beverages that bring people together. Our iconic brands, including Del Monte, Contadina, and College Inn, are household names, and we're proud to be a part of so many families' lives. We're seeking an experienced Customer Finance Senior Manager to join our team. As a key member of our finance leadership team, you'll play a critical role in driving business growth, optimizing trade investments, and delivering financial objectives. If you're a strategic thinker with a passion for finance and leadership, we want to hear from you.

Responsibilities:

As a Customer Finance Senior Manager at arenaflex, you'll be responsible for providing planning and financial leadership to our sales, business unit finance, and customer teams. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Analyzing business performance to optimize trade investments and deliver financial objectives
• Leading the Joint Customer Business Planning Process (JCBP) with sales and customer teams to develop and achieve aligned goals
• Providing financial leadership to sales and marketing teams to deliver profitable business results
• Partnering with sales and regional general managers to drive business growth through volume, trade spend optimization, mix, and new item payback analysis
• Leading area, channel, and HQ reviews to influence investment decisions across retailers
• Performing cost/benefit analysis to influence trade-off decision making
• Objectively communicating customer execution and financial results across the organization
• Leading period/quarter/year close and VMR reporting/analysis for trade
• Owning and leading financial aspects of Joint Customer Business Planning with the retailer
• Leveraging ROI analysis and financial trends to influence customer execution plans
• Ensuring team delivers on-going financial analysis and perspective to influence decisions and results
• Partnering with field sales to make trade-off decisions across products while ensuring alignment with brand strategy
• Leading the development and distribution of financial reporting and reviews to provide organizational visibility and transparency

Financial Leadership:

As a Customer Finance Senior Manager, you'll be responsible for providing financial leadership to our sales and marketing teams. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Providing leadership to sales and marketing teams to deliver profitable business results
• Partnering with sales and regional general managers to drive business growth through volume, trade spend optimization, mix, and new item payback analysis
• Leading area, channel, and HQ reviews to influence investment decisions across retailers
• Performing cost/benefit analysis to influence trade-off decision making
• Objectively communicating customer execution and financial results across the organization

Customer Planning:

As a Customer Finance Senior Manager, you'll be responsible for leading the financial aspects of Joint Customer Business Planning with the retailer. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Owning and leading financial aspects of Joint Customer Business Planning with the retailer
• Leveraging ROI analysis and financial trends to influence customer execution plans
• Ensuring team delivers on-going financial analysis and perspective to influence decisions and results
• Partnering with field sales to make trade-off decisions across products while ensuring alignment with brand strategy
• Leading the development and distribution of financial reporting and reviews to provide organizational visibility and transparency

Support the Quota Management Process:

As a Customer Finance Senior Manager, you'll be responsible for ensuring that quota/trade deployment delivers AOP financial commitment. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Ensuring that quota/trade deployment delivers AOP financial commitment
• Supporting the translation of national trade spend plans into customer level budgets by providing accurate inputs into the quota build process
• Providing updates to trade budget based on completed customer level spend plans (i.e. monthly flow, corrections to costing, etc.)

Enforce Revenue Management Compliance:

As a Customer Finance Senior Manager, you'll be responsible for enforcing revenue management compliance. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Regularly tracking key pay-for-performance metrics such as shelf price compliance, merchandising support, unit cost, etc.
• Monitoring and enforcing account level trade spend throughout monthly, quarterly, and annual cycle; AOP to plan to actualization

Organization Development:

As a Customer Finance Senior Manager, you'll be responsible for developing human capital and organizational capability through motivation and empowerment. Your key responsibilities will include:

• Developing human capital and organizational capability through motivation and empowerment
• Leading efforts to streamline processes, eliminate redundancy, and share best practices
• Partnering with sales and business unit finance leaders to ensure incentive plans and cross-functional processes align to deliver desired organizational results

Del Monte Foods Leadership Behaviors:

At arenaflex, we're committed to growing good and making a positive impact on the world. Our leadership behaviors are guided by the following principles:

• Ground Our Teams: Connect our teams to a clear strategy, provide the support our teams need for success, and hold ourselves and our teams accountable.
• Create the Climate: Solve problems together with our teams, enable smart risk taking, and empower our teams to make decisions and take action.
• Nurture the Good: Be intentional about building trust, lead with empathy, and grow and develop our teams.

Qualifications:

To be successful in this role, you'll need to possess the following qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration or related field; MBA preferred
• 5+ years relevant experience; CPG experience strongly preferred
• Experience in planning and analysis, influencing sales teams, and profit management
• Broad knowledge of products, customer structures, promotional allowances, trade funds management
• Systems experience to include: Trade Management Systems, Trade Promotion Optimization, and Microsoft Office Programs (Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Word, Outlook)
• People leadership and development experience
• Travel required 20% - 25%

WE OFFER:

As a valued member of our team, you'll enjoy a competitive salary, comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k). We're committed to growing good and making a positive impact on the world, and we're excited to have you join our team.

How to Apply:

If you're a strategic thinker with a passion for finance and leadership, we want to hear from you. Please submit your application, including your resume and cover letter, to [insert contact information]. We can't wait to hear from you!

Note:

No sponsorship is available for this position. No agencies or 3rd party vendors. Apply for this job