Location - High Hybrid
This is a hybrid role, which means that you will have the flexibility to work both onsite and at a distance. You will collaborate onsite at our Cashton, WI office for 4-8 days per month, and the rest of the time you can choose to work remotely or onsite.
Employee Type - Salaried
Bonus - This position is eligible for a 10% annual incentive bonus based on cooperative and individual performance.
Safety Sensitive - No
If a company is going to make a difference in today's world, it's going to have to think differently. At Organic Valley, our philosophy and decisions are based on the health and welfare of people, animals and the earth. We're a mission-driven cooperative, owned by family farmers, and we've been leaders in organic agriculture from the very beginning. Once pioneers of organic agriculture, we're now an established leader. Organic is all we do. We are driven by our mission to promote regional farm diversity and economic stability by the means of organic agricultural methods and the sale of certified organic products.
Summary of Role
The Contract Manufacturing Director will research new processing facilities nationwide. With approval from the Vice President of SSC, this person will procure plants that best exhibit a history of high-quality production, integrate with CROPP''s existing production network and facilitate the development of new dairy regions. This individual will be responsible for the entire relationship, including negotiating and maintaining manufacturing & co-packing contracts. The Contract Manufacturing Director will be responsible for expediting cost requests and other projects. They will work cross-functionally with cost accounting, packaging, R&D, and production to ensure accuracy of cost workups. In addition, they will work closely with our co-manufacturing partners to review actual cost of good variances, improve yields, and identify & implement reductions in cost of goods. Directly responsible for non-farmer cost of goods and cost savings initiatives. With a focus on new end-use markets and customer opportunities, the Contract Manufacturing Director will work closely with Sales to explore new ingredients and byproduct opportunities.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
o Help facilitate new regions with new production plants.
o Research facilities which may become 3rd party facilities to manufacture products for CROPP.
o Negotiate, implement, and maintain contracts with production facilities as necessary.
o Manage relationships with assigned processing plants.
o Ensures compliance with policies, quality and safety procedures, and fair employment practices.
o Handles confidential information with discretion.
o Work closely with Sales, Supply Chain, Customer Service and Transportation Management Services to ensure mutual goals are established, reviewed and achieved.
o Collaborate with accounting on expediting & improving accuracy of PDR for non-innovation related costing requests.
o Monitor manufacturing yields and actual COGs; work directly with cost accounting to ensure yields and COGs are meeting targets.
o Work directly with production facilities to improve yields and COGs.
o Maximize organic utilization of byproducts and other ingredients.
o Assist in establishing ingredients and byproduct Sku's to align with market needs.
o Work with Sales on identifying new end use markets and potential customer outlets for ingredients.
o Understanding of milk components and the products that can be derived from them.
Additional Duties and Responsibilities
Knowledge, Skills and Competencies
Base salary/hourly wage range: $129,896.00 per year - $173,201.60 per year
This salary wage range is exclusive of fringe benefits. The compensation package may also include incentive compensation opportunities in the form of discretionary bonuses. If you are hired at CROPP, your final base salary wage compensation will be determined based on factors such as skills, education, and/or experience. Additionally, we believe in the importance of pay equity and consider the internal equity of our current team members as a part of any final offer. Please keep in mind that entry-level candidates to this role should expect to be at the lower end of the salary wage range and hiring at the maximum of the salary wage range is not typical.
Benefits
We believe when our people are strong, our mission is strong. Therefore, we offer a comprehensive and holistic Total Rewards package meant to strengthen employees' and their family''s total wellbeing. Here are some of the great benefits offered:
Over the past three decades, we've created some beloved brands (Organic Valley and Organic Prairie), but in body, we are a pioneering cooperative (CROPP Cooperative) owned and guided by family farmers-almost 2,000 of them in 36 states, Canada, Australia and England, to be exact. Our professional staff counts about 950 souls, many of them based at one of our facilities in three small towns located in the stunning Driftless Region of Southwest Wisconsin. Here's where we churn butter, wrap cheese, ship products, create fun marketing campaigns, care for our customers, and serve our organic farmer-owners. We're busy folks, and there's no slowdown in sight.
Our two main office buildings are complete with organic cafés and fitness facilities and a full schedule of physical and mental wellness opportunities because we believe everyone deserves good food and a balanced life. Every day is casual Friday because we believe our people are at their best when they're comfortable. (In fact, shoes are optional.) We actively collect and act on business and culture ideas from all employees because as a cooperative, we believe none of us are as smart as all of us. (A saying heard frequently from our CEO.) Between all this and many other qualities that we don't have room to list here, it's no surprise Outdoor Magazine placed us in the 100 Best Places to Work in the USA.