Director, Manufacturing, Operations & Supply Chain Finance

NextGenEnergyJobs; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

NextGenEnergyJobs is seeking a Director of Manufacturing, Operations & Supply Chain Finance to act as the strategic financial partner to manufacturing and supply chain leadership. The role focuses on budgeting, capital allocation, and performance improvement to enable scale and value creation.

The position requires strong FP&A, cost analysis, and capital project experience, with the ability to influence decisions across make-vs-buy, sourcing, and plant investments.

Qualifications

• Typing, standing, or sitting for extended periods.
• Willingness to travel or work required nights/weekends/on-call occasionally.
• Work in a facility that contains industrial hazards including heat, cold, noise, fumes, and high voltage.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary financial advisor to the Manufacturing and Supply Chain leadership teams, providing strategic decision support on cost management, capital investments, and operational efficiencies.
• Translate financial results into operational decisions and bring proactive analysis with clear recommendations to the leadership table.
• Responsible for multi-year budgets, cash flows, long-range plans and financial KPIs to inform leadership decisions.
• Lead the economics of make-vs-buy, sourcing, and vertical integration decisions.
• Own the financial and capital allocation framework for capital projects including factory build-outs and capacity expansions; develop ROI/NPV business cases and post-investment reviews.
• Build and mature the operations-finance infrastructure—data, processes, reporting and systems—for a fast-scaling organization.
• Provide financial insights to support production planning, inventory management, and procurement strategies for plants that support vertical integration and external customers.
• Responsible for long-term COGS improvement and margin optimization efforts.
• Direct variance analysis and management reporting for operations, in partnership with Cost Accounting.
• Standardize and own the standard-costing framework, including cost roll-ups and unit-cost tracking across plants.

Job description

Director, Manufacturing, Operations & Supply Chain Finance

• Serve as the primary financial advisor to the Manufacturing and Supply chain leadership teams, providing strategic decision support on cost management, capital investments, and operational efficiencies
• Translate financial results into operational decisions; bring proactive analysis and clear recommendations to the leadership table
• Responsible for multi-year budgets, cash flows and long range plans as well as financial KPIs to inform leadership decisions
• Lead the economics of make-vs-buy, sourcing, and vertical integration decisions
• Own the financial and capital allocation framework for capital projects including factory build-outs, capacity expansions, new-capability introductions. Drive the development of business cases, ROI/NPV, and post-investment review
• Build and mature the operations-finance infrastructure —data, processes, reporting and systems— for a fast-scaling organization
• Provide financial expertise to support decisions related to production planning, inventory management, and procurement strategies for manufacturing plants that support vertical integration as well as supply external customers
• Responsible for long term COGS improvement and supporting margin optimization efforts
• Direct variance analysis, and management reporting for operations, in partnership with Cost Accounting
• Standardize and own the standard-costing framework, ensuring cost roll-ups, and unit-cost tracking across the plants; oversee analysis of purchase price variance, absorption, yield, scrap, and capacity utilization
• Support the implementation and rollout of planning tools and ERP modules to enable manufacturing and cost reporting

Requirements

• Perform activities such as typing, standing, or sitting for extended periods of time
• Willingness to travel or work required nights/weekends/on-call occasionally
• Work in a facility that contains industrial hazards including heat, cold, noise, fumes, strong magnets, lead (Pb), high voltage, high current, pressure systems, and cryogenics