McCormick & Company Hiring for DIRECTOR FINANCE Job at Hunt Valley, MD Full Time

McCormick & Company, Inc., a global leader in the spice, flavor, and seasonings industry, is seeking a full-time Finance Director. This new hire will work at McCormick’s global headquarters, located in Hunt Valley, MD (50/50 hybrid).

McCormick & Company, Incorporated is a global leader in flavor with approximately 13,000 employees worldwide. As a Fortune 500 company with over $5 billion in annual sales across 160 countries and territories, we manufacture, market, and distribute spices, seasoning mixes, condiments, and other flavorful products to the entire food industry including e-commerce, retail, food manufacturers and foodservice businesses. Our most popular brands include McCormick, French’s, Frank’s RedHot, Stubb’s, OLD BAY, Lawry’s, Zatarain’s, Ducros, Vahiné, Cholula, Schwartz, Kamis, DaQiao, Club House, Aeroplane, and Gourmet Garden. Every day, no matter where or what you eat or drink, you can enjoy food flavored by McCormick. Our Purpose is “To Stand Together for the Future of Flavor and our Vision is “A World United by Flavor—where healthy, sustainable and delicious go hand in hand.”

As a company recognized for its exceptional commitment to employees, McCormick offers a wide variety of benefits, programs, and services. Benefits include, but are not limited to, tuition assistance, medical, dental, vision, disability, group life insurance, 401(k), profit sharing, paid holidays, and vacations.

Position Overview

Primary responsibility of this position is to be a key business partner to the commercial teams, by leading the finance team and facilitating actionable insights / analytics and sound decision making that results in the achievement of the financial objectives of the business. Responsibilities include active involvement and leadership within the sales and marketing processes to support commercial execution, financial planning, annual budgeting, forecasting, cost optimization, product and customer profitability analysis, customer pricing, monthly and quarterly financial analysis, trade spend, broker spending, and controls.

Key Responsibilities Partner with commercial team to formulate pricing strategy, inclusive of directing and overseeing all pricing analysis and procedures. Partner with commercial team to formulate portfolio strategy, including development of NPD, margin analysis and CCI. Development of staff and a successful team through active coaching and management of goals & objectives, aligning individual and organizational development (balanced with business) needs, deploying resources effectively, identifies and plans development opportunities, executes talent review process, identify future talent and capability needs and prioritizes talent for leadership programs. Direct the coordination and preparation of the long-term plan, annual budget and forecast process. Present plans to Management identifying areas of focus and key drivers to ensure profitable growth. Direct and oversee all activities related to the monthly reporting process with a clear focus on generating value added actionable insights. Directing and interpreting all monthly results analysis, forecasting, budgeting and long-term planning from Gross Sales to Marketing Profit, including partnering with Supply Chain and Commercial Finance COEs. Oversee and facilitate all commercial finance planning processes including net sales drivers, scorecards, O&R administration, forecast, LTP, competitor analytics, TM1 to EDW reconciliation, and demand dollarization. In addition, will direct and coordinate the licensing, royalties, and brand impairment processes.

Required Qualifications Bachelors in Finance or Accounting. MBA preferred. 10+ years finance experience with a minimum of 5+ years of senior level financial planning / analysis, commercial / sales finance or accounting experience required. Demonstrated ability to lead, develop and manage teams is required. Excellent analytical and communication skills and a solid knowledge of MS Excel, Power Point, and Word required. Ability to influence and interact effectively with all levels and areas of the organization is required. Strong theoretical and practical knowledge of financial and analytical techniques required. Leading the team requires a thorough knowledge of technical financial analysis tools and methods, including knowledge of critical business issues and interpreting their impact on financial results of the Division. Need to understand trends in the industry, including external and internal factors affecting the business. Cross functional knowledge is essential. Ability to take initiative and work independently. Higher Level Communication of Complex Information – Good communication and influence skills required in order to exchange complicated or sensitive information or information that is difficult to communicate because of content or intended audience. Good interpersonal, problem solving, financial analysis and communication skills required. External auditor interaction or regulatory agency as applicable on occasion, beyond information gathering and sharing. Includes 1st level influencing. Interactions dealing with performance, pay and employee relations for direct reports. Strong analytic and project management skills – Ability to break down complex problems and generate insights from large data sets; strong project management skills with wide variety of stakeholders Work well under constant pressure and critical deadlines Develops new solutions to solve business problems and obstacles. Proposes and implements improvements to systems, methods of work and analysis methods and contributes to ensuring that they are continuously adapted to the business requirements. Ability to balance workload and develop teams through appropriate delegation of responsibilities and empowering team to act with clear direction

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McCormick & Company is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

As a general policy, McCormick does not offer employment visa sponsorships upon hire or in the future.