Jobs at Rise Baking Company

Provides pricing, planning, profitability analysis, and ad hoc reporting to support senior management, Sales, Marketing, R&D, and operations. Develops pricing recommendations, analyzes inflation and customer-level profitability, maintains rate-planning scenarios, supports product cost targets, prepares month-end allocations, and contributes to annual planning. The role requires strong Excel, financial analysis, communication, organization, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Leads commercial finance support for a major retail channel, including pricing strategy, margin and cost analysis, forecasting, budgeting, PPV analysis, and customer-facing financial reporting. Partners with Sales, Marketing, Operations, R&D, and Procurement to support profitability, pricing negotiations, product development, and executive reviews. Manages one to two analysts and provides financial insights, variance analysis, and recommendations.

Owns customer- and product-level demand forecasting across a rolling 24-month horizon. Develops statistical models, analyzes demand drivers, maintains SAP APO DP and related planning systems, and facilitates S&OP activities. Partners with sales, marketing, finance, procurement, and supply planning to improve forecast accuracy, inventory, service, and planning KPIs. Supports annual planning, product transitions, ERP implementations, master-data accuracy, scenario analysis, and user training.

Supports inventory management and supply chain analytics by monitoring inventory health, developing dashboards and reports, managing slow-moving and obsolete inventory, and identifying supply chain risks. Collaborates with Sales, Finance, Operations, and Procurement to improve inventory KPIs, data accuracy, service levels, and working capital. Performs root cause analysis, supports network optimization and continuous improvement projects, maintains supply chain data and master data, and recommends corrective actions for inventory opportunities.

Leads the organization’s tax and treasury functions across the US, Canada, and Mexico. Oversees tax compliance, provisions, audits, transfer pricing, cash management, forecasting, banking, insurance, liquidity, and financial risk. Advises executives on tax strategy, acquisitions, capital allocation, and business transformation. Builds controls, improves processes, supports integrations, and develops tax and treasury talent.

Leads full-cycle recruiting across approximately 20 manufacturing sites and corporate teams. Manages and develops a recruiting team, oversees requisitions, builds sourcing strategies, partners with hiring leaders, manages assessments and offers, and ensures legal compliance. Uses recruiting metrics and technology to improve processes, supports employer branding, and drives onboarding, engagement, retention, and talent management initiatives.

Partners with Supply Chain and Finance leadership on freight, warehousing, inventory, and capital project decisions. Owns accruals, budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, audits, financial modeling, reporting, and executive presentations. Supports cost and working-capital improvements, ERP implementations, M&A activity, and AI-enabled reporting enhancements while providing insight into operational and financial performance.

Manage and grow national food service accounts across a large territory, delivering revenue and profitability goals through strategic account management and new business development. Responsibilities include customer relationship management, sales planning, forecasting, business reviews, negotiations, product expansion, executive engagement, trade shows, issue resolution, and collaboration with internal planning and product teams.

Leads a 24-month operating-model deployment across multiple plants, managing initiative rollout, adoption, waste reduction, continuous improvement, and downtime reduction. Builds data-driven action plans, coaches plant CI and operations leaders, validates implementation effectiveness, maintains governance tracking, escalates blockers, and transfers learning between plant teams and the central program. Requires substantial travel, daily plant-floor engagement, Lean/Six Sigma expertise, analytics fluency, and strong execution and coaching capabilities.

Leads regional finance across multiple manufacturing plants, overseeing consolidated reporting, close processes, budgeting, forecasting, cost accounting, CapEx prioritization, internal controls, and operational performance analysis. Partners with operations leadership and private equity stakeholders to improve EBITDA, productivity, working capital, and capital allocation. Standardizes finance processes, supports ERP initiatives and M&A activity, leads continuous improvement efforts, manages plant finance teams, and ensures audit, SOX, and food-industry compliance.

Lead R&D special projects involving bakery formulation development, process scale-up, capital equipment evaluation, line installations, plant trials, and commercial production launches. Partner with Engineering, Operations, Quality, Procurement, Marketing, and plant teams to troubleshoot technical issues, optimize processes, manage project documentation, and ensure quality, food safety, regulatory compliance, and timely execution. Travel to plant locations as needed.

Lead compensation and benefits program design, administration, market analysis, pay equity reviews, incentive planning, and regulatory compliance. Advise HR leaders and managers on pay decisions, manage annual compensation cycles and benefits projects, oversee vendor relationships and open enrollment, and analyze benefits utilization. Partner with HRIS, Legal, Compliance, and leadership to maintain accurate data, improve reporting, and support US and Canadian programs.

Provide accounting support for HR-related costs by preparing journal entries, reconciling accounts, maintaining prepaid and accrual accounts, analyzing variances, and supporting monthly close, audits, ERP integrations, and acquisition accounting. The role requires collaboration across departments, strong US GAAP knowledge, advanced Excel skills, and the ability to meet Day 3 or Day 5 close deadlines.

Designs, programs, tests, troubleshoots, and maintains PLC, HMI, SCADA, electrical, HVAC, and production equipment control systems. Reviews and updates electrical schematics, supports network communications and FactoryTalk Historian, diagnoses programming and mechanical failures, assists technicians, advises management on system risks, and supports continuous improvement, food safety, and quality compliance.

Manage the full lifecycle of a bakery ingredients and products portfolio, including new product development, optimization, maintenance, and discontinuation. Develop product and category growth strategies, selling stories, training materials, customer communications, and business cases. Analyze market trends and competitive activity, publish reports, support innovation, and collaborate cross-functionally on business growth, quality, food safety, and process alignment.

Coordinates inbound and outbound shipments, schedules deliveries, manages inventory accuracy, collaborates with suppliers, carriers, warehouse, production, and distribution teams, and resolves logistical issues. Monitors transportation costs and performance metrics, ensures compliance with safety and quality standards, and supports process improvements across warehousing and supply chain operations.

Own plant-level accounting, financial close, cost accounting, standard costing, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, inventory analysis, CapEx evaluation, and internal controls. Partner with plant leadership and operations to improve margins, reduce waste, manage working capital, analyze variances, support S&OP and pricing decisions, and ensure audit-ready financials. The role also supports continuous improvement, food safety-related financial compliance, M&A integration, system implementations, and PE sponsor reporting.

Provides proactive executive and administrative support at company headquarters. Manages calendars, scheduling, travel, expenses, communications, meetings, presentations, and sensitive information for multiple executives. Coordinates logistics, screens requests, anticipates leadership needs, drafts documents, manages special projects, and improves organizational processes while maintaining confidentiality and professionalism.

Own strategic sourcing and category management across indirect spend categories, including MRO, facilities, utilities, IT, marketing, HR, and professional services. Develop category strategies, lead competitive bids and complex contract negotiations, manage supplier performance, drive savings, and improve procurement compliance. Analyze spend and total cost, optimize inventory and subscriptions, maintain procurement records, and resolve supplier issues affecting plant operations, quality, and food safety. Partner with cross-functional stakeholders across multiple sites.

Provide maintenance reliability consulting across manufacturing facilities, lead mechanical reliability initiatives, analyze failure and maintenance metrics, develop predictive and preventive maintenance programs, coordinate shutdown repairs, manage contractors and critical spare parts, and plan equipment replacements and capital projects. The role also audits plant practices, improves precision maintenance techniques, supports food safety and quality programs, and collaborates with plant personnel, suppliers, and contractors on operational improvements.