Sr Director Commercial & Procurement Finance

Skill Set

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, or related field
• MBA or CPA preferred
• 12–15+ years of progressive finance experience
• Experience in commercial finance and procurement finance
• CPG or food manufacturing experience preferred
• Strong financial modeling and analytical skills
• Ability to influence executive stakeholders
• Leadership and team-building capabilities
• Proficiency in data analytics tools

Role Description

The Senior Director, Commercial & Procurement Finance is a strategic finance leader responsible for driving profitable growth across a multi-plant North American food manufacturing network (16 factories).

• Partners closely with Commercial and Procurement leadership to align revenue growth strategies with disciplined cost management and margin expansion.
• Serves as the finance partner to both organizations—translating financial insights into actionable strategies that improve customer profitability, optimize input costs, and enable data-driven decision-making.
• Lead pricing strategy across products, customers, and channels.
• Develop and maintain pricing models to optimize margin and volume.
• Oversee price realization, customer spend and promotional ROI.
• Establish governance and consistency in pricing practices.
• Analyze input cost trends and identify margin risks and opportunities.
• Provide financial leadership on sourcing strategy and supplier economics.
• Partner on cost savings initiatives and contract evaluation.
• Evaluate supplier decisions using total cost frameworks.
• Analyze profitability by SKU, customer, plant, and channel.
• Improve mix, reduce leakage, and optimize contract terms.
• Support key customer negotiations with financial insights.
• Reviews and aligns on commercial and procurement inputs to budgeting and forecasting.
• Monitor performance vs plan and identify risks and opportunities.
• Build analytics capabilities across revenue and input costs.
• Develop dashboards to track pricing, margins, and cost trends.
• Provide insights on market dynamics and inflation.
• Partner with Commercial, R&D, Supply Chain, Procurement, Marketing, and Finance to ensure alignment between commercial, procurement, and plant economics.
• Lead and develop a high-performing finance team.
• Develop capabilities in pricing, analytics, and business partnering.
• Foster a culture of accountability and collaboration.