Director, Commodity Risk Management — Hybrid Strategy Leader

The Cheesecake Factory; Agoura Hills (CA); Hybrid; USD 220,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual bonus

Annual equity grants

Medical, Dental & Vision

Benefits first day of the month

401K with company match

Vacation 3 weeks (4 weeks after 5th yr

Sick time 5 days/yr

Tuition reimbursement $2,500

Adoption assistance $2,500

Dining discount 25-35%

Gift card annually

Job summary

The Cheesecake Factory is seeking a Director, Commodity Risk Management to shape enterprise strategy for managing commodity price risk across our brands. This highly visible role protects margins, reduces forecast volatility, and translates market dynamics into actionable recommendations for senior leaders.

Initially focused on agriculture exposures, you will expand to additional commodities and partner with business, finance, operations, and accounting leaders to align pricing, sourcing,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, Supply Chain, Agricultural Economics, Business, or related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in commodity risk management, commodity trading, agricultural markets, procurement, treasury, or related field.
• Direct experience developing and executing commodity risk management strategies in beef, cattle, agriculture, food, retail, packaging, CPG, or another physical commodity environment.
• Proven experience developing, implementing, and scaling commodity risk management programs, including governance frameworks, policies, controls, and performance measurement processes.
• Strong knowledge of commodity markets, derivatives, basis risk, forward curves, hedge ratios, liquidity, and physical-to-financial exposure management.
• Experience with market analysis, scenario modeling, position management, governance, and risk reporting.
• Experience leveraging commodity risk management, treasury, ERP, forecasting, or analytics platforms to support risk assessment, decision-making, and reporting.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex market dynamics and risk exposures into clear business recommendations and effectively influence senior leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Proven ability to create reporting on costs, simplify complex risk concepts, and influence decisions with data-driven insights.
• Strong cross-functional partnership skills across commercial, finance, treasury, and controllership teams.
• Experience managing external relationships with banks, brokers, exchanges, or commodity market participants.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute commodity risk management and hedging strategies aligned with business objectives, forecast needs, and enterprise risk appetite.
• Advise the business on market trends, pricing decisions, exposure risks, structure, and financial statement impacts.
• Partners across suppliers, finance, operations and accounting to connect physical commodity exposures with financial risk management strategies.
• Evaluate futures, options, swaps, and other instruments; monitor fundamentals including supply and demand, basis, forward curves, and macroeconomic trends.
• Develop reporting on exposures, hedge strategy, scenarios, performance, and business implications.
• Establish governance, controls, documentation, escalation protocols, and performance measurements for risk management activity.
• Manage larger supplier partnerships and improve forward buying opportunities which can reduce volatility and strengthen business planning.
• Quarterly reporting to the Finance team on all the actual quarterly cost and adjusted full year forecasting.

Skills

Commodity risk

Derivatives knowledge

Forecasting

Strategic pricing

Governance frameworks

Cross-functional partnership

Communication

Risk reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance/Economics/Supply Chain

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

ERP systems

Forecasting platforms

Analytics platforms

Job description

The Cheesecake Factory is seeking a Director, Commodity Risk Management to shape enterprise strategy for managing commodity price risk across our brands. This highly visible role protects margins, reduces forecast volatility, and translates market dynamics into actionable recommendations for senior leaders.

Initially focused on agriculture exposures, you will expand to additional commodities and partner with business, finance, operations, and accounting leaders to align pricing, sourcing,