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 disciplined financial analysis.
• Ensure approved launch economics, risks, timing, and commitments are clearly documented and transferred into forecasts, standard costs, and post-launch tracking.
• Conduct post-launch reviews to compare actual performance with approved assumptions and convert learnings into stronger future estimates.

Process Governance & Decision Support

• Establish scalable templates, governance, and documentation standards for innovation costing and financial assessment.
• Build trusted relationships across Innovation, Finance, and Supply Chain and facilitate constructive decisions when priorities or assumptions conflict.
• Create clear executive summaries that distill complex product economics into the few variables and trade-offs that matter most.
• Track cost targets, margin commitments, risks, and actions across the pipeline and escalate material deviations promptly.
• Improve financial acumen across innovation teams by providing practical tools, training, and ongoing guidance.

Skills & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, or a related field.
• 6+ years of progressive finance experience, including experience in supply chain finance, innovation finance, product costing, operations finance, or FP&A.
• Strong command of product P&Ls, COGS, gross margin, standard costing, scenario analysis, and investment decision support.
• Experience supporting new product development, commercialization, reformulations, packaging changes, or stage-gate processes strongly preferred.
• Experience in Consumer Packaged Goods, food, manufacturing, retail, or another SKU-intensive business strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to build credible financial estimates from incomplete information and communicate assumptions and confidence levels clearly.
• Strong project management skills and the ability to coordinate multiple cross-functional workstreams, deadlines, and decision points.
• Advanced Excel / Google Sheets and financial modeling skills; experience with BI tools is a plus.
• Executive-ready communication skills and the ability to influence senior stakeholders without direct authority.
• Experience with ERP, product lifecycle management, and financial planning systems such as SAP, Oracle, NetSuite, Anaplan, or comparable platforms is a plus.
• Comfort operating in a high-growth environment where product specifications, timelines, and processes continue to evolve.

Location and Travel:

The position will be based onsite in Walnut Creek, CA. We strongly believe in the power of culture and community and have a hybrid work structure with 4 days in the office on a weekly basis to encourage collaboration and personal connections that will allow us to better serve our customers and consumer and to have more fun. Fridays are flex days with employees having the opportunity to choose to be either in the office or to work from home based on what makes most sense for them.

Pay Transparency:

The expected starting salary range for this role is $135,000- $155,000 per year. The salary range posted for this role reflects the good-faith base pay range Kinder’sreasonably expects to offer at the time of posting and may vary based on the location of the role. Individual compensation within the posted range will be determined based on factors such as relevant education, experience, qualifications, skills, and business needs.