Manager, Commercial Finance

Company Description

Simple Mills is on a mission to transform the way food is made, creating nourishing products with astounding ingredients and amazing taste. Founded in 2012 by Katlin Smith, our brand has redefined center-aisle grocery by delivering better-for-you products made with unique, nutrient-dense ingredients. Today, we’re a category leader and the #1 natural brand in multiple segments, with distribution in over 30,000 stores nationwide.

Now, as part of Flowers Foods, we’re entering an exciting new phase of growth—expanding our reach, accelerating innovation, and amplifying brand awareness, all while preserving the integrity of what makes Simple Mills special. Our commitment to using simple, high-quality ingredients ensures that every bite is both delicious and nutritious. Whether it’s watermelon seed flour in our cookies or butternut squash in our crackers, we craft our products with innovative, wholesome ingredients that deliver extraordinary taste.

Our work has been recognized by Fast Company as a Brand That Matters and a Most Innovative Company, and has been featured in Vogue, Forbes, Women’s Health, and NPR’s How I Built This. In 2024, Inc. named us one of its Best Workplaces, reflecting our dedication to fostering an inspiring and inclusive environment where passionate individuals can make a difference.

Join us as we shape the future of food. Learn more at www.simplemills.com.

Requirements

Role Description

The Manager of Commercial Finance will play a key role in supporting profitable growth for Simple Mills by partnering closely with Sales, Marketing, and Operations to deliver high-quality financial insights and commercial analytics, including proactively pressure-testing assumptions and identifying opportunities to improve decision quality. This role will support revenue planning, trade and promotional analysis, pricing evaluation, and ongoing tracking of commercial performance across customers and channels.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Commercial Finance, this role will help translate commercial strategy into financial analysis that informs planning, forecasting, and decision-making. The Manager will contribute to improving tools, processes, and financial rigor across the business while operating as a strong thought partner to cross-functional teams.

This is a hands-on role that requires strong analytical capability, clear communication, and the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Commercial Finance Partnership & Forecasting 

• Own commercial forecasting for assigned accounts and/or channels, including volume, net sales, trade spend, and key revenue drivers, in partnership with Sales and Marketing. 
• Challenge assumptions and inputs in commercial analyses, identifying when the initial approach should shift based on data or changing business context.

• Support consolidation and review of customer- and channel-level forecasts, helping identify key risks and opportunities. 

• Partner cross-functionally to translate commercial plans into financial forecasts and performance insights. 

• Support the Annual Operating Plan (AOP), Long-Range Planning (LRP), and reforecast cycles through development of assumptions, analyses, and scenario modeling. 

Reporting, Insights, & Performance Management 

• Prepare Net Sales and commercial performance reporting, including KPIs, variance analysis, and clear commentary. 

• Develop actionable insights on performance drivers, risks, and opportunities, with recommendations to support decision-making. 

• Communicate findings clearly to cross-functional partners, tailoring analysis to the audience and business context. 

• Execute ad-hoc financial and strategic analyses to support customer strategies, pricing initiatives, and other commercial priorities. 
• Ensure analytical outputs are accurate and internally consistent through independent validation of assumptions and results.

Net Revenue Management (NRM) 

• Analyze trade and promotional performance, including pre-event scenario modeling and post-event analysis. 

• Deliver analytics across pricing, promotion, mix, and trade investment to support net revenue optimization , and clearly articulate and validate the analytical logic linking inputs (price, mix, trade) to financial outcomes

• Support pricing analysis, including list price and price-pack architecture scenario modeling. 
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