Sr. Manager Business Alignment (food/beverage manufacturing) at Baldwin Richardson Foods – Macedon, New York

WHO WE ARE

Baldwin Richardson Foods is focused on enriching the flavor of life. As a full-service liquid products supplier and strategic partner to the food and beverage industry, Baldwin Richardson Foods combines its formulation expertise and unique packaging options with robust processing capabilities to produce high-quality sauces, toppings, syrups, fillings, and shelf-stable beverages for the world's most iconic Quick Service Restaurants (QSRs), Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) brands, and food service companies. Its state-of-the-art Innovation & Culinary Center transforms trends and culinary inspiration into legendary products through an award-winning commercialization process. The company also manufactures and markets Mrs. Richardson's dessert sauces and Nance's mustards/condiments in addition to producing finished goods for the private label sector. BRF maintains its headquarters and a manufacturing facility in Macedon, New York; with a Culinary Innovation Center in Westmont, Illinois; and offices and manufacturing facilities in Williamson, New York; Pennsauken, New Jersey; and Corona, California. This role will be out of Macedon, NY (hybrid).

WHAT WE NEED

The Senior Manager Business Alignment is responsible for ensuring that the organization's strategic goals and objectives are effectively aligned with its business processes and operations. This role requires collaborating with various departments to drive strategic initiatives, improve operational efficiency, and foster a culture of continuous improvement. This is a senior role within the organization, reporting to the Chief of Staff. Its purpose is to identify, plan, lead, and communicate high-impact, cross-functional problems and initiatives that will improve our metrics and decision-making, accelerate throughput, improve quality, and enable scalability of the entire organization. The Business Alignment function will ensure BRF is uniquely positioned to execute with speed without sacrificing long-term efficiency and effectiveness. The desired core principles for this position include being relentless in rooting out and resolving cross-functional inefficiencies and being process, data-oriented and people savvy.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

• Develop and implement strategies to align business processes with organizational goals, collaborating with teams to sustainably solve inefficiencies and scaling challenges.
• Lead high impact, enterprise initiatives and transformations bring standardization, agility and change a change management approach
• Enterprise-wide Programmatic Ownership of:
  1. M&A Integration Playbook to ensure readiness. Lead future M&A enterprise-wide integrations, to ensure seamless alignment of processes, systems, and cultures.
  2. Portfolio and Project Management Standards to establish functional expertise in project management for consistency and best practice sharing.
  3. Enterprise Change Management Program, integrating into Business Alignment Initiatives and Functional Initiatives, collaborating with teams to effectively complete, and sustain change management best practices.
  4. Continuous Improvement Standard for a consistent approach to CI across enterprise, building talent and empowering within business functions.
• Collaborate with senior leadership and department heads to identify alignment opportunities and drive cross functional initiatives.
• Manage employee performance by clearly defining job responsibilities and standards of performance; tracking progress against goals; providing clear, thorough, timely feedback; and addressing performance problems and issues promptly.
• Ensure self and staff keep up to date on technical knowledge and developments that impact roles. Use this information to drive improvements and/or prepare for changing requirements.
• Ensure an effective learning environment by coaching employees, orchestrating learning opportunities, and providing relevant, high-impact feedback.

WHAT YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL

• Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Management, or a related field.
• 7+ years of strong business-process experience (Lean, Agile or continuous improvement) is required.
• 5+ years of people leadership experience.
• Demonstrated expertise in developing, implementing, and supporting organization-wide initiatives in Continuous Improvement, Change Management, and Project Management.
• Proven success establishing strong relationships and working across all functions within the organization. Ability to accomplish goals within a matrixed reporting structure.
• Proven experience in enabling a fast-growing organization with the information and insights needed to execute effectively and efficiently

At BRF, base pay is one part of our total compensation package and is determined within a range. Your base pay will depend on your skills, qualifications, experience, and location.

You'll also receive a comprehensive benefits package including low premium and out of pocket cost medical, dental and vision coverage, 401k with company match, generous sick and vacation time, 9 paid holidays, birthday and floating holidays, volunteer time and more!

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