Jobs at Balchem Corporation

Manages China sales and business development for functional ingredients, including direct customers, distributors, key accounts, budgets, profitability, market planning, and client projects. Builds customer relationships, leads technical and commercial discussions, coordinates local marketing initiatives, and closes deals. Requires extensive nutraceutical or food industry experience, strong communication and analytical skills, regulatory knowledge, fluent English, CRM proficiency, and travel exceeding 50%.

Leads extrusion-focused process development, scale-up, commercialization, technology transfer, and manufacturing optimization. Designs and analyzes laboratory, pilot, and commercial trials; establishes process parameters, operating windows, controls, and qualification criteria. Supports equipment selection, commissioning, troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, process improvement, and lifecycle activities. Collaborates with Product Development, Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, Supply Chain, EHS, Regulatory, and Commercial teams while documenting technical requirements, risks, reports, SOPs, and best practices.

Lead end-to-end execution of complex capital projects for food and ingredient manufacturing: feasibility, scope, budgeting, procurement, construction, commissioning, and handover. Coordinate cross-functional teams, enforce safety and quality, manage contractors, monitor schedules and budgets, and drive process improvements to enhance reliability, capacity, and compliance.

Manage and grow sales across a large territory serving food and beverage, VMS, and dietary supplement accounts. Develop territory strategies, nurture existing customers, convert new accounts, achieve sales and budget goals, monitor market trends, and collaborate cross-functionally to advance Minerals and Nutrients products. The role requires strong industry relationships, technical product knowledge, negotiation, presentation, planning, and independent territory management skills.

Coordinates intercompany inventory replenishment across Balchem’s global network. Manages intercompany purchase and sales orders, monitors inventory and order status, resolves shipment, pricing, invoicing, and transaction discrepancies, and supports month-end controls. Collaborates with supply chain, procurement, customer service, finance, accounting, logistics, and operations teams. Participates in process improvement initiatives, system enhancements, documentation, testing, and training to improve inventory visibility, transaction accuracy, and operational efficiency.

Supports global transfer pricing compliance, documentation, analysis, and audit readiness. Responsibilities include preparing Master and Local Files, coordinating financial data across jurisdictions, monitoring intercompany transactions, reviewing entity profitability, calculating true-ups, supporting CbCR and Pillar Two initiatives, maintaining transfer pricing policies in ERP systems, collaborating with finance and external advisors, and responding to tax authority inquiries. The role also assists with regulatory monitoring, benchmarking studies, and transfer pricing-related business initiatives.

Provides technical leadership for manufacturing and packaging process design, scale-ups, safety evaluations, experiments, process improvements, and engineering projects. Develops project scopes, P&IDs, drawings, controls narratives, maintenance plans, SOPs, and related documentation. Supports material handling, ingredient preparation, receiving, CIP, and liquid and powder processing. Leads cross-functional resources, mentors team members, applies Lean and Six Sigma methods, and supports quality, safety, and continuous improvement initiatives.

Support supply chain finance for manufacturing sites including monthly close, balance sheet reconciliations, standard costing, variance analysis, budgeting/forecasting, inventory accounting, audit support, and ad hoc financial analyses to inform operations and decision-making.

Support intercompany inventory accounting, including D365 standard costing, transfer pricing, and month-end close. Prepare intercompany profit elimination calculations, reconcile inventory transactions, investigate valuation discrepancies, partner with supply chain and accounting, assist audits, and drive process improvements and automation for global intercompany operations.

Provide high-level administrative and strategic support to multiple senior leaders: manage complex calendars and high-volume inboxes, coordinate domestic and international travel, prepare presentations and reports, support board matters and compliance training administration, plan meetings and events, process expenses and invoices, and serve as backup to CEO/CFO executive assistants and corporate paralegal.

Lead R&D portfolio management for Human Nutrition & Health, ensuring prioritization, stage-gate governance, resource capacity, and execution discipline. Manage a team of project managers, align cross-functional stakeholders, maintain portfolio metrics and systems, and partner with Finance to track valuation and performance. Drive adoption of PM standards, improve processes, and ensure regulatory, quality, and safety compliance.

Serve as a hands-on commercial finance partner for Human Nutrition & Health business units. Lead month-end reporting, forecasting, and budgeting; perform financial and ad-hoc analysis; support strategic reviews, pricing, and acquisition analysis; drive continuous improvement in reporting and analytics; influence cross-functional decisions and present results to senior leadership.

Lead month‑end close activities, prepare and analyze journal entries and financial statements, support SEC filings and SOX testing, reconcile ledgers, guide staff accountants, assist consolidations, and drive improvements in financial reporting systems, budgeting, and forecasting.

Administer employee benefits programs (medical, dental, vision, retirement, disability), manage enrollments and vendor relationships, ensure compliance (ACA, FMLA, HIPAA, COBRA, ERISA), support employees with benefits questions, coordinate open enrollment, maintain benefits data and reporting, and assist with program design and audits.

Provide regional IT support by troubleshooting and maintaining servers, networks, desktops, laptops, printers and telephony. Own help-desk tickets, document changes, assist with major system implementations, mentor junior technicians, and travel periodically to regional facilities to perform maintenance and projects.

Drive revenue and account growth for Encaps & Inclusions across the Midwest. Develop territory strategy, manage key accounts, prospect new business, coordinate cross-functional teams, document activity in Salesforce, and support technical and commercial customer needs. Travel ~50%.