Manager, Supply Chain Finance - New Product Pipeline

BUILT ON FLAVOR.  FUELED BY PEOPLE. What’s it like to work at Kinder’s? Well, there’s a lot of snacking and geeking out over what we all cooked over the weekend. Beyond that, there’s also plenty of hard work. Because we don’t just like flavor, we’re obsessed with it.      With over 100 products sold nationwide, we’re now a top-five brand in multiple flavor categories at Costco, Walmart, Whole Foods, and more.

We’re not your typical CPG company. Privately held and founder-led, we like to think of ourselves as a pirate ship in a sea of cruise ships . Our crew is adventurous and fearless. We chart our own course and chase big ideas to make food unforgettable.   As we expand globally and approach $1 billion in revenue, we need more smart-and-scrappy, flavor-obsessed people to come aboard.

If you’re looking for a place where you can see the real impact of your work... this is it!  Every day, you’ll be part of a journey to add flavor to millions of meals and lives.  About This Role: At Kinder's, we're passionate about flavor, quality, and creating exceptional food experiences. As our company continues to grow, so does the scale and complexity of our supply chain across co-manufacturing, logistics, and an expanding SKU portfolio.

The Manager, Supply Chain Finance - New Product Pipeline will serve as the finance business partner to Innovation and lead financial support for Kinder's preliminary financial assessment process. This role will bring early visibility to product economics and help cross-functional teams make informed choices as concepts move from idea through commercialization. Partnering with Product Development, R&D, Brand, Procurement, Co-Manufacturing, and Supply Chain, this manager will coordinate cost targets, proxy development, scenario modeling, and early-stage P&L guidance for new products, reformulations, and pack changes.

The role will establish decision-ready economics even when specifications, volumes, or supplier inputs are incomplete. This position will strengthen financial discipline across the innovation pipeline by creating clear stage-gate expectations, improving cost transparency, and ensuring launch assumptions and risks are understood, approved, and handed off into forecasts and standard costs. Key Responsibilities Include: Innovation Finance & Preliminary Financial Assessment Own the financial workstream for the preliminary financial assessment process, establishing required inputs, timelines, cost targets, review standards, and approval-ready outputs.

Develop early-stage product P&Ls, cost proxies, margin ranges, and scenario models using the best available assumptions for formula, packaging, tolling, freight, warehousing, volume, price, and trade. Translate concept changes into clear implications for net sales, COGS, gross margin, EBITDA, working capital, and cash flow. Identify material assumptions, sensitivities, risks, and information gaps and clearly communicate the confidence level of financial estimates.

Provide financial guidance at innovation stage gates and make recommendations on cost targets, design choices, launch readiness, and economic viability. Maintain a portfolio view of pipeline economics, highlighting value creation, margin risk, resource trade-offs, and changes from prior approvals. Cross-Functional Costing & Commercialization Coordinate with Product Development, R&D, Brand, Procurement, Co-Manufacturing, Operations, and Supply Chain Finance to develop and validate product cost assumptions.

Partner with technical teams on formula, specification, pack, and process alternatives that can improve margin while protecting product quality and consumer experience. Evaluate supplier quotes, co-manufacturing tolls, minimum order quantities, yields, scrap, line trials, capital requirements, and scale assumptions. Support reformulations, packaging changes, productivity initiatives, and SKU lifecycle decisions with disciplin