Director Supply Chain Finance

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Lynn Plant - Lynn, MA 01901, Salary Range: $ - $ Salary, About Kettle Cuisine

At Kettle Cuisine, great food starts with great people. Our chefs, culinary experts, production teams, and innovators are united by a shared passion for crafting exceptional food with care. We value craftsmanship, collaboration, continuous learning, and meaningful careers—and our finance team plays a critical role in helping the business make better decisions, improve execution, and create sustainable value.

Kettle Cuisine is seeking a Director, Supply Chain Finance to serve as the senior finance business partner to Supply Chain, Procurement, Operations, and other leaders across the company. Reporting to the CFO and partnering with the COO, this role will connect operating plans to financial outcomes and support Kettle Cuisine's growth agenda by delivering fuel for growth and ensuring that the business has the right capabilities in place to support growth.

The successful candidate will bring strong FP&A capabilities, supply-chain experience, and the executive presence to translate complex operational issues into clear choices and actions in a fast-moving, evolving environment. This leader will own the financial planning and performance-management agenda for the supply chain, including productivity and capital expenditure, while helping the business scale profitably.

• Lead the financial planning, forecasting, budgeting, and long-range planning processes for Supply Chain, Procurement, and Operations.
• Partner with the CFO, COO, VP of Supply Chain, plant leaders, Manufacturing, Quality, Customer Service, Commercial, and other leaders to drive productivity initiatives and improve business performance.
• Build strong cross-functional alignment so financial plans, operating priorities, customer commitments, and growth investments are translated into executable actions.
• Lead monthly performance reviews, including analysis of actual results versus plan, forecast, and prior year; identify root causes, risks, and corrective actions.
• Improve financial visibility and insight into cost lines including scrap and yield
• Develop decision-support models for sourcing, supplier negotiations, productivity initiatives, capital investments, network changes, capacity decisions.
• Support the development and measurement of productivity and cost-reduction initiatives, ensuring benefits are quantified, tracked, and realized.
• Partner with Accounting and Operations to improve standard costing and variance analysis
• Leverage new AI tools to build practical dashboards and management reporting that enable leaders to focus on the most important business drivers.
• Bring a continuous-improvement mindset to finance processes, data quality, reporting, and cross-functional ways of working.
• Lead, coach, and develop finance team members including Plant Controllers and build strong capabilities across the broader finance organization.

• Established a strong partnership with the COO and the Operations team
• Established a clear, trusted financial view of supply-chain performance and outlook.
• Created a consistent operating cadence for planning, variance review, and action tracking.
• Improved transparency into the drivers of cost variances and productivity performance.
• Strengthened the quality and speed of decision support provided to the executive team and operating leaders.
• Delivered fuel for growth by helping identify and realize opportunities to improve margin and operational effectiveness.
• Helped ensure that the finance, reporting, and operating capabilities needed to support growth are in place.

• Ability is more important than years of experience, but the ideal…