The Berry Finance Manager is a core member of the Enterprise Finance team. They combine business acumen and deep analytical and financial expertise to drive optimum operational and strategic decision making for Driscoll's and the enterprise. The Berry Finance Manager defines and independently leads financial analysis to quantify how our market, supply and financial business strategies impact Enterprise profitability of the berry. The role provides “field to fork” analysis, creating recommendation to improve the financial health of each berry business including customer/channel performance, supply applications, business model mechanics, and new product development.
The role will support or lead key projects that requires the ability to work and negotiate requirements across functions, including Driscoll’s Product Leadership, Supply Solution, Growing, Nurseries, Supply Chain, Finance, Market Group. The Manager will lead the interpretation of fruit margin results; generating insights and implications from variances to Plan and prior years.
Responsibilities
*Job Location Note: This role is targeted for Guadalajara, Mexico, but highly qualified applicants will be considered for a Watsonville, California, USA based position. Remote work is not authorized for either location.*
• Identifies and interprets internal and industry challenges and recommends best practices to improve enterprise profitability
• Identifies and leads research around innovations in technology and best practices in planning methodology
• Leads projects to analyze and internally coordinate implementation of business model changes. Supports the growing team with the communications to growers, creating innovative ways to communicate difficult concepts. Quantifies impact to Grower and Driscoll’s, making formal recommendations
• Leads and coordinates the Supply Group, Regional Production, Applied Research and other Driscoll’s team when analyzing new supply technologies
• Independe