Manager, Plant Finance

Role Purpose

The Plant Finance Manager plays a critical role within the Manufacturing Organization, ensuring that internal manufacturing costs are optimized and accurately reflected in the Hain Celestial P&L. The role supports the Global Hain Supply Chain’s strategic initiatives by providing financial leadership, driving cost governance, and partnering closely with various stakeholders to deliver on the company’s financial goals.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Ensure effective site cost governance of the spend at the Tea manufacturing site through democratized insights, consistent categorization of productivity and inflation drivers, and active leadership in decision support for $100M in ingredient and packaging inventory.
• Evaluate spend management practices, production yield and efficiencies & forecast improvement areas to allow for future insight development.
• Partner closely with the Site Leadership Team, VP of Regional Manufacturing, Indirect Procurement, Finance & the transformation office to deliver Fuel strategic program initiatives.
• Provide decision support to the Site Leadership team, focusing on yield loss, plant conversion spend areas, and net working capital trade-offs.
• Safeguard site assets, including inventory and property, plant, and equipment (PP&E), while promoting a strong control environment.
• Support the overall Site Manufacturing strategy ensuring it is aligned to and enables Hain’s Fuel for Growth delivery and supports the Net Plant Conversion productivity expectations of roughly 2-3% annually.
• Lead initiatives to ensure that productivity pipelines are sufficient across the site and assist in ideation and deep dives to deliver cost efficiencies.
• Ensure that site net manufacturing is on time, on budget, and delivers the required savings, establishing consistent cost management practices with Site Manufacturing.