Director of Category Finance

Location – Thisis a hybrid role, which means that you will have the flexibility to work both onsite and at a distance. You will collaborate onsite at our La Farge, WI office for 4-8 days per month, and therest of the time you can choose to work remotely or onsite.

Employee Type – Salaried

Bonus
–This position is eligible for a 10% annual incentive bonus based on cooperative and individual performance.

Safety Sensitive – No

The Director of Category Finance partners with category, channel, marketing, sales finance, and executive leadership to improve business performance across the cooperative. The role provides strategic financial leadership and decision support for decisions that drive revenue growth, profitability, pricing, volume, mix, brand development, and category performance.

This position leads the Category Finance team and the planning, forecasting, reporting, and performance management processes for categories and channels. It requires deep commercial finance expertise, understanding of the brand development and business cycle.

• - Partner with category, channel, marketing, sales finance, and senior leadership to shape commercial strategies that drive revenue growth, profitability, and long-term brand value.
• - Provide senior-level financial input on business-critical decisions involving pricing, innovation, product mix, category investment, and go-to-market priorities.
• - Lead financial evaluation of category and channel performance, including revenue results, margin drivers, price, volume, mix, and profitability trends.
• - Translate commercial, brand, consumer, and financial insights into clear recommendations that influence cross-functional leadership decisions and business outcomes.
• - Understand and apply the brand development and business cycle to evaluate category strategies, growth initiatives, and investment options.

• - Lead budgeting, forecasting, S&OP, financial planning, reporting, and analysis to support informed commercial decisions and business accountability.
• - Provide forward-looking insight into category performance, business drivers, risks, opportunities, key metrics, revenue results, and profitability trends.
• - Deliver executive-level financial insights and recommendations that enable management and commercial leadership to evaluate options, prioritize actions, and improve results.
• - Maintain visibility to budget and forecast performance, variance drivers, and corrective actions needed to strengthen business outcomes.
• - Ensure forecasting, reporting, close partnership, and variance analysis provide accurate, consistent, and decision-useful information across sales finance, marketing, accounting, S&OP and finance partners.

• - Evaluate the financial impact of marketing campaigns, promotions, innovation initiatives, pricing actions, and revenue growth management strategies.
• - Partner with marketing leadership to assess brand and category investments, understand business-cycle dynamics, and prioritize initiatives that improve top-line growth and profitability.
• - Lead analysis of price, volume, mix, trade spend, margin drivers, performance indicators, and emerging trends to identify actions that strengthen category and channel performance.
• - Communicate financial insights and recommendations to non-financial stakeholders in a clear, compelling, and action-oriented manner.

• - Apply advanced analytics tools, financial…