Manager, Supply Chain Finance - Logistics & 3PL

BUILT ON FLAVOR.  FUELED BY PEOPLE. What’s it like to work at Kinder’s? Well, there’s a lot of snacking and geeking out over what we all cooked over the weekend. Beyond that, there’s also plenty of hard work. Because we don’t just like flavor, we’re obsessed with it.      With over 100 products sold nationwide, we’re now a top-five brand in multiple flavor categories at Costco, Walmart, Whole Foods, and more. We’re not your typical CPG company. Privately held and founder-led, we like to think of ourselves as a pirate ship in a sea of cruise ships . Our crew is adventurous and fearless. We chart our own course and chase big ideas to make food unforgettable.   As we expand globally and approach $1 billion in revenue, we need more smart-and-scrappy, flavor-obsessed people to come aboard. If you’re looking for a place where you can see the real impact of your work... this is it!  Every day, you’ll be part of a journey to add flavor to millions of meals and lives.  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 - Logistics & 3PL will serve as the lead finance business partner to Logistics, Customer Operations, and Warehousing. This role will own the financial planning, reporting, and decision support needed to manage freight, distribution, warehousing, and related supply chain costs. Operating across carriers, third-party logistics providers, distribution centers, customers, and internal teams, this manager will drive cost visibility, billing and contract compliance, network analysis, and productivity. The role will balance transportation and warehouse cost with service, inventory, customer requirements, and working capital. This position will help establish a scalable Logistics Finance and audit capability by creating reliable reporting, strengthening controls, recovering overpayments, and turning shipment-level data into clear recommendations for senior leaders. Key Responsibilities Include: Planning, Forecasting & Performance Management Own the annual budget, rolling forecast, and long-range plan for outbound freight, inbound freight, warehousing, distribution, and related logistics costs. Develop forecasts based on volume, weight, customer and channel mix, modes, lanes, transportation rates, fuel, accessorial, warehouse activity, network changes, and service requirements. Lead monthly and weekly performance reporting, explaining results versus budget, forecast, and prior periods and identifying required actions. Establish logistics financial KPIs and dashboards, including cost per case, cost per hundredweight, cost per mile, cost per load, warehouse cost per case, service, utilization, and productivity measures. Connect logistics performance to gross margin, customer profitability, working capital, inventory, and cash flow. Provide forward-looking insights on emerging cost, service, capacity, and network risks and opportunities. Transportation, Warehousing & Network Economics Analyze transportation rates, fuel surcharges, accessorial charges, modes, carriers, lanes, load utilization, and customer shipping patterns. Evaluate carrier strategies, consolidation opportunities, transportation alternatives, and internal versus third-party logistics options. Partner with Supply Chain to optimize warehouse and distribution center costs, including storage, handling, throughput, transfers, and inventory positioning. Lead financial analysis for 3PL requests for proposal, contract negotiations, rate changes, and service model decisions. Evaluate network opportunities, including distribution center locations, customer assignments, co-manufacturer flows, inter-DC transfers, and inbound versus outbound trade-offs. Partner with Customer Operations and Customer Supply Chain teams to quantify the financial impact of service levels, OTIF requirements, minimums, order patterns, and customer-specific logistics requirements. Identify, quantify, prioritize, and track logistics productivity and cost-reduction initiatives; validate realized savings and business impact. Freight Audit, Controls & Team Leadership Establish invoice, rate, fuel surcharge, accessorial, and contractual compliance across carriers, brokers, warehouses, and 3PL providers. Develop risk-based audit routines, identify billing exceptions, recover overpayments, and track root-cause corrective actions. Partner with Accounting on accruals, coding, expense allocations, inbound freight capitalization, close processes, and financial controls. Set priorities and provide day-to-day direction, coaching, and quality review for analysts supporting Logistics Finance. Build trusted relationships across Logistics, Warehousing, Customer Operations, Accounting, Sales, and Finance and communicate recommendations clearly to senior leaders. Create repeatable data sets, models, and reporting processes that improve accuracy, speed, transparency, and scalability. Skills & Experience:   Bachelor's degree in Finance, Accounting, Economics, Business, Supply Chain, or a related field. 6+ years of progressive finance experience, including meaningful experience in logistics finance, supply chain finance, operations finance, transportation analytics, or FP&A. Strong command of budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, freight and warehousing economics, inventory, working capital, and business case development. Demonstrated experience analyzing transportation rates, fuel surcharges, accessorials, modes, lanes, carriers, warehouses, or 3PL contracts. Experience building or operating freight audit, invoice compliance, or contract compliance processes is strongly preferred. Experience in Consumer Packaged Goods, food, manufacturing, retail, or anot