About Us

Since our founding in 2011, Nature’s Bakery has been baking better-for-you snacks to nourish families and enable them to thrive. We believe that the choice to snack healthier should be an easy and desirable one. Today, we are a top 10 granola and snack bar brand, with approximately 500 employees baking soft-baked snacks with real, recognizable, and wholesome ingredients, such as whole grains and sun-ripened fruits.

Our marketplace success led us to join forces with KIND to create a health and wellness platform within Mars, Inc. While continuing to operate as a standalone company, we are now part one of the most well-regarded consumer goods company in the world. That independence allows us to remain an agile, insurgent brand committed to our brand purpose and founding.

Nature’s Bakery is a fast-growing company with a bright future ahead. We have achieved great things, and there is more opportunity for growth both on the digital and retail shelves, through expanded distribution with existing and new retail customers. To achieve our aspirations, we are expanding our team of growth-minded, nimble, and entrepreneurial individuals who like to roll up their sleeves and get things done. We think like owners, act like operators.

So, come join us to create a world of snacking that is both good, and good for you.

About The Role

As a Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) Manager, you will be reporting to the CFO and managing the enterprise planning process, working cross functionally and with senior management. You will be closely engaging with demand, production, distribution and financial planning teams in the business, making the process cohesive and comprehensive. You will also partner the CFO and COO on program managing Value Leadership (Cost Savings) for the business. Value Leadership is a critical enterprise program driving cost savings across all functions. The program comprises projects that enables the business to offset inflation and improve margins sustainably. You will have a significant impact on influencing short- and long-term business objectives by elevating visibility on underlying performance drivers, facilitating decision making and building tighter accountability across the business.

The role can be based out of Pasadena, (CA) or Hazelwood (MO) and is an individual contributor role.

The Critical Success Factors

You will be most successful if you:

Have led or facilitated S&OP process in a fast scaling and dynamic constrained supply chain and sales environment;
Have strong cross functional influence capabilities and general business acumen, as reflected in a deep understanding of demand, sales, and manufacturing planning processes;
Have simplified and optimized the S&OP tools and steps to ensure faster decision-making and alignment;
Have demonstrated use of systems and processes to produce high-quality information and applied analytical techniques to derive critical insights from this information.

The Ideal Candidate

In addition, our ideal candidate should have strategic thinking and drive for results, partnering the business to achieve its medium- and long-term goals. The ideal candidate should have experience influencing without authority and seek critical information to enhance decision quality (or navigate systems or teams to obtain relevant information).

The Minimum And/Or Technical Requirements

At minimum, the candidate for the Sales and Operational Planning (S&OP) Manager must have:

Bachelor’s Degree in Finance, Supply Chain or related field and preferably MBA/CPA or CMA;
Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience, preferably in the CPG environment with a background in business planning, operations planning and/or financial planning.

Your Career Journey At Nature’s Bakery

As a young company, we have had the opportunity to shape, reinforce and live our five core company values daily:

Growth Minded. You are incessantly curious, you believe career development is journey built on experiences, feedback and personal growth
Solutions-Focused. You excel at both thinking and doing and have a track record of turning organizational objectives into actionable solutions
Respect. You thrive in environments where team members treat each other with respect and support one another, in fact you believe the best solutions emerge when you can engage in fact-based, low-ego discussions
Stronger Together. Working as a team towards a common goal, we thrive on collaboration because we believe each of us has a unique perspective to offer
Integrity. “Doing the right thing” guides you, it is the compass that guides every decision and action you take

Our culture enables our success as individuals and as a company. From the start, you will have ownership over projects because we are a lean organization that tightly collaborates for faster decision-making. In doing so, you will deepen your skillsets while having exposure to broader experiences and senior leadership. Named by Fortune as one of the “World’s Best Workplaces,” Mars, Inc. is a purpose-driven organization that will also provide you access to advancement and career growth opportunities, either within Nature’s Bakery or the broader Mars family of companies.

Our brand purpose extends to our own employees—we know that when you thrive, so does the company. That is why we offer market competitive compensation. In addition to a competitive base salary, our annual incentive plan rewards achievement toward company and individual goals.

Our benefits package reflects our commitment to your health and wellness. Every team member is offered 100% employer paid health, dental, vision, life, AD&D (accidental death and dismemberment), and short-term disability insurance. Our 401(k) plan provides a safe harbor company match. Team members receive 11 paid holidays a year and paid time off. Finally, there is a suite of other benefits, such as a healthcare flexible spending account, a one-year subscription to Peloton Digital Membership (a $155 value), wellness activities and wellness awards (valued at up to $400), and an employee assistance program offering free confidential legal, financial, and counseling services.

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The duties and responsibilities of this role may be changed as directed by the Company at any time to promote and support our business and meet strategic objectives.

Nature’s Bakery is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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