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Commercial Manager (IL, Lombard)

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:29:00 GMT

Custom Culinary, Inc. has manufactured and marketed food products to the food service industry for more than 60 years. Custom Culinary^® has been perfecting the art of flavorful foods during its rich history of providing a full line of authentic culinary flavor systems that consistently offer best-in-class performance and enable food service professionals to create signature products. The company believes that its future success is going be driven by its people, its brand and what it stands for, culinary expertise and innovation.

Custom Culinary® is headquartered in Lombard, Illinois and has manufacturing facilities located in Oswego, Illinois and Avon, Ohio. The company’s product range includes soup bases, sauces, gravies, soups, flavored compounds, flavored butters, marinades and seasonings.

Custom Culinary, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Griffith Laboratories. A key endeavor in the company’s evolution is to leverage the global presence of Griffith Laboratories. The desire is to use the branded product model of Custom Culinary® to build a business focused on foodservice segments in targeted global geographic regions.

THE POSITION:

The Commercial Manager position will report to the Director of Marketing and have a strong direct working relationship with the leadership team including the President.

The candidate we seek will have a unique opportunity to play a key role in enabling growth and the evolution of the company. The position will be charged with making contributions in strategic, analytical and tactical aspects of building the business globally. The position will collaborate with all cross-functional disciplines, such as R&D (Custom Culinary® and Griffith Laboratories), Culinary, Operations, Quality and Business Development in multiple countries. This position offers the exceptional opportunity to establish and lead the execution of a vision for the growth of the company through geographic expansion. This manager will bring a best-in-class business management vision consistent with the executive team’s vision and organization’s values, breaking new ground, inviting new dimensions to the company’s strategy and long-term vision. Holding a key role the candidate must bring critical requisites that include an entrepreneurial vision paired with an experienced foodservice marketing background and simultaneous abilities to influence listen and partner with peers and subordinates.

The candidate we seek will have a demonstrated track record of successfully building and leading commercial strategy and execution within a foodservice manufacturer environment. It is critical that the individual understand the global responsibility of the position. Additionally, it is critical that this in

Director of Business Development (IL, Lombard)

Mon, 15 Mar 2010 15:23:00 GMT

THE POSITION:

The Director of Business Development position will report to the Vice President of Sales and Marketing and have a strong working relationship with the leadership team including the President.

The candidate we seek will have a unique opportunity to play a key role in enabling growth and the evolution of the company. The position will be charged with making contributions in strategic, analytical and tactical aspects of building the foodservice business in the Hispanic segment in the United States. The position will collaborate with all cross-functional disciplines, such as R&D (Custom Culinary® and Griffith Laboratories), Culinary, Operations, Quality and Business Development in multiple countries. This position offers the exceptional opportunity to establish and lead the execution of a vision for the growth of the company through geographic expansion. This manager will bring a best-in-class business management vision consistent with the executive team’s vision and organization’s values, breaking new ground, inviting new dimensions to the company’s strategy and long-term vision. Holding a key role the candidate must bring critical requisites that include an entrepreneurial vision paired with an experienced foodservice sales background and simultaneous abilities to influence listen and partner with customers, peers and subordinates.

The candidate we seek will have a demonstrated track record of successfully developing business strategy and execution within a foodservice manufacturer environment. It is critical that the individual understand the glo

Packaging Machine Operator (Avon) (OH, Avon)

Wed, 10 Mar 2010 10:29:00 GMT

Overview:

This position is responsible for set-up, operation, and clean-up of Form-Fill-and Seal Machine, conveyors, metal detectors, and Pail/Cup Line according to the specifications of that day's production.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Reads and interprets production schedules in order to accurately pack Finished Goods
Disassembles, cleans, re-assembles and operates all packaging equipment
Disassembles, cleans, re-assembles sanitary piping, conveyors, and associated line components
Sets-up equipment according to production schedule
Cleans Chill Tanks and Packaging Room
Samples product for weight control and records data

Trade Spend Manager (IL, Lombard)

Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:01:00 GMT

Position Overview:

This position is responsible for managing the trade payment process and trade payment systems for Custom Culinary®. The Trade Spend Analyst is also responsible for developing pricing analysis that will be used to support achieving targeted profitability levels. Creating business analysis that brings together Sales and Trade Spending data is also key function of this position.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Trade Spend Management:

Become the go-to person for trade payments – setting policies and procedures while managing the trade payment process (for deductions and check requests) in Blacksmith and ASK to ensure timely processing of deductions. This may include some data entry in Blacksmith and ASK to clear deductions.
Ensure budgeted deduction balances and aging profiles are achieved on a monthly basis throughout the year.
Identify changes in customer deduction behaviors that pose a risk to our overall budget and the effectiveness of our trade spending. Develop policies and action steps to address these risks.
Provide weekly reporting and analysis of deduction balances. Identify and resolve customer deduction issues.
Prepare and submit batch files for A/R to utilize in updating A/R balances. Review processed batches to ensure all items were cleared as needed.
Streamline processes between A/R and the Finance team in Lombard.
Lead the development, implementation, and documentation of improvements in trade payment processing procedures. Identify opportunities to leverage system capabilities.
Lead the development, implementation, and documentation of a process for identifying and recovering invalid deductions taken by customers. Work proactively with Sales and customers to ensure problems are resolved before becoming fiscally significant.
Measure and report on Forge compliance. Develop and implement a plan to drive Forge compliance to required levels across the Sales team.
Supervise Deduction Analysts. Develop and track performance measures. Prioritize work in order to achieve departmental and business goals. Develop individual performance goals and measures. Perform mid-year and year-end reviews. Provide training and coaching throughout the year.
Develop and implement procedures to audit the transactions executed by the deduction analysts to ensure proper documentation and adherence to established procedures. Utilize the outcome of the audits to develop training materials or policy changes as necessary.
Enhance existing business process documentation for Trade Payments.

Pricing:

Lead the development of product cost analysis for new business opportuniti

Sr. Food Scientist (IL, Alsip)

Thu, 21 Jan 2010 14:34:00 GMT

Position Overview:

Plans and conducts complex projects to develop creative and innovative value-added products in support of the commercial team strategy. Applies scientific and engineering principles in the research, development, production technology, quality control, packaging, processing of batter and breaded food products.
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Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develops creative and innovative batter and breading systems for major foodservice customer and associated processors

• Works with independence, exercising ingenuity and judgment in the approach to and completion of complex projects.

• Responsible for the planning and execution of new and optimized product development projects across key commercial internal/external functional groups to support account growth at key client.

• Personally owns and manages multiple priorities and timelines and uses strong technical and problem solving skills to approach complex projects.

• Functions as a project leader by training, assigning tasks and accountabilities to junior positions. Mentors junior positions.

• Leads and participates in product presentation to client and internal functions

• Provides direct link between client, processors, and Griffith Laboratories companies to address and/or impact critical technical issues.

• Keeps up to date on necessary technical skills and knowledge.

• Leads production trials of new products both internally in Griffith manufacturing plants and with customers at external processing facilities.

• Demonstrates willingness to lead and assist in the implementation of new technologies and process improvements.

• Provides necessary technical service to Griffith Laboratories’ Global Operating Units in support of Global Account growth.

• Takes personal ownership of developing new skills to meet future needs and is a technical expert for GLNA internally and externally

• Suggest and leads implementation of new technologies and process improvements

• Maintains proper record keeping and computer systems

Director, Industrial Accounts (IL, Lombard)

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:55:00 GMT

Position Overview:

To provide strategic, analytical, tactical leadership and achieve budgeted sales volume targets with assigned existing and new Industrial customers.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Achieve/exceed assigned volume and profit goals while executing our strategy in the Processor/Industrial channel.

Manage Execution: Achieve targeted sales and financial goals. New customer acquisition abilities are essential. Coordinates efforts with the entire Segment team functions.

Business Management: Develop and execute strategies that support our brands and total product portfolio. Provides customer with the Custom Culinary® point of differentiation.

Customer Relationship Management: Responsible for customer interaction and developing key relationships. Understanding of our customer's organizational structure and how to maneuver effectively within these organizations.

Establish Plans: Assists with building short and long-term plans that support both the customer's goals while achieving Custom Culinary's® financial expectations.

Speak Effectively: Makes impactful presentations utilizing the tools supplied.

Financial Acumen: Manage our corporate account P&L to assure that we are selling the right mix of products and spending appropriately to support these businesses.

Problem solving will be related to assisting with the design of the right product portfolio and translating those products into solutions for the customer. Key decision points will be in the area of our product portfolio and customer acquisition

Food Scientist (Medina) (OH, Medina)

Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:28:00 GMT

Position Overview: This position, under limited supervision will be responsible for developing complex formulas, processing procedures, and specifications for new products, product enhancement, and cost reduction products with in a USDA facility. The incumbent will also provide advanced technical support to Marketing, Sales, Operations, Culinary, and external customers. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: � Develops experimental formulas, processing procedures, and specifications for raw ingredients, subassemblies, and finished products for new product, product improvement, and cost reduction. � Organizes and manages test runs and commercialization of experimental products. � Design, validate or modify experimental formulas and processing procedures to develop final specifications for the production of finished products and ensure reproducibility. � Works with team members to ensure successful start-ups of new products, product improvement, cost reduction, ingredient, formula, specification, or process changes. � Evaluates, confirms acceptability, and implements proposed ingredients or process for Supplier Optimization. � Provides advanced technical solutions to production issues. Documents all work according to established procedures and guidelines. � Will assist in managing food technicians daily work load to assure best utilization of resource and meeting aggressive sample turn around times. � Manages technical programs and resource requirements for major development activities � Generates product information including specifications, nutritional sheets and allergen information; sources ingredients; collaborates with co-packers and create dry blends for use in finished products � Travels to key customers for menu and product ideation