Logistics Finance Manager — 3PL & Global Supply Chain

Kinder's Premium Quality Seasonings & Sauces; Walnut Creek (CA); On-site; USD 135,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Kinder's Premium Quality Seasonings & Sauces in Walnut Creek, CA, is seeking a Manager, Supply Chain Finance - Logistics & 3PL to lead financial planning, reporting, and decision support for freight, warehousing, and related logistics costs.

Based onsite with a strong emphasis on cross-functional partnering, you will drive cost visibility, contract compliance, and network economics while balancing service, inventory, and working capital to enable scalable growth.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or related field.
• 6+ years in finance with logistics/transportation analytics experience.
• Strong budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and working capital skills.
• Experience with 3PL contracts and carrier charges.
• Experience in CPG/food distribution preferred.
• Executive-ready communication and cross-functional influence.
• Advanced Excel/Google Sheets and financial modeling.

Responsibilities

• Own the annual budget, rolling forecast, and long-range plan for outbound/inbound freight, warehousing, distribution, and related logistics costs.
• Develop forecasts based on volume, weight, customer and channel mix, modes, lanes, transportation rates, fuel, accessorial, warehouse activity, network changes, and service requirements.
• Lead monthly and weekly performance reporting, explaining results versus budget, forecast, and prior periods and identifying required actions.
• Establish logistics financial KPIs and dashboards, including cost per case, cost per hundredweight, cost per mile, cost per load, warehouse cost per case, service, utilization, and productivity measures.
• Connect logistics performance to gross margin, customer profitability, working capital, inventory, and cash flow.
• Provide forward-looking insights on emerging cost, service, capacity, and network risks and opportunities.

Skills

Budgeting

Forecasting

Freight analytics

Excel modeling

Leadership

BI tools

Executive communication

Cost reduction

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance

Tools

ERP systems

Job description

Kinder's Premium Quality Seasonings & Sauces in Walnut Creek, CA, is seeking a Manager, Supply Chain Finance - Logistics & 3PL to lead financial planning, reporting, and decision support for freight, warehousing, and related logistics costs.

Based onsite with a strong emphasis on cross-functional partnering, you will drive cost visibility, contract compliance, and network economics while balancing service, inventory, and working capital to enable scalable growth.