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Head of Finance & Operations
Why this is a great job
Put your finance or operations experience to good use - help build something at Plant People. Be responsible for everything from negotiating with co-packers to managing an investor pipeline. I bet you’ll never be bored.
The nitty gritty
Company website: plantpeople.co
Who you’d be working for: Hudson Gaines-Ross, Founder
Salary: 70-150k (big range, but guessing it’s based on experience - negotiate for the top end!)
Plant People (and, Instagram!) exists to inspire everyone on their journey towards healing themselves, their communities and the planet. We produce high-performance, plant-based, wellness solutions rooted in regenerative agriculture. And, to give back to those plants that heal us, we plant a tree for every product sold!
This is the opportunity to join a fast-growing startup and an energetic team that works together to deliver creative solutions that are transforming the way people think about plants.
This position will focus on ensuring our top line sales continue to grow with scale and profitability across our wholesale and ecommerce channels while helping the company maintain and lean, affordable burn rate. As the lead in finance at Plant People, where the day to day finances and capital in’s and out’s continue to become more complex, you will play a pivotal role in supporting Plant People’s growth and success. The ideal candidate is obsessed with the art and science of numbers, analytics and growth, with the ability to think both creatively and analytically to make on-going iterations to our current business model. Beyond finance, you will be overseeing our supply chain, including managing our internal shipping team, looking for high-level outbound/inbound shipping efficiencies, ensuring quality logistics throughout the supply chain, managing our production partners, etc. You will partner with all cross-functional department leads and Co-Founders to ensure financial and scalability targets are met.
Responsibilities
Finance
Oversee all financial analysis, manage the P&L; budgeting and forecasting process
Setting, defending and iterating on companywide and department-focused sales bonus program based on revenue/margin performance
Partnering with each member of sales and marketing teams to ensure effective, scaled growth on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis
Serves as strategic core of our growth initiatives, cross country and focus on charting a path to help guide the business’s growth across wholesale and ecommerce channels
Oversees the collation and analysis of operational data, micro and macro environment factors / indices, competitor landscape, customer trends, capabilities and financial projections
Disseminates information to cross-functional teams and bring forth insights and implications to what the trends reveal and ensures its inclusion in the strategic plans as well as division wide implications
Evaluate trends, patterns and results to determine business impacts of marketing and promotional activities and identify improvement opportunities
Partner with department leaders to provide budget, forecast and analysis
Monthly/quarterly financial comparisons against budget and forecastDesign reports and executive summaries that clearly and concisely communicate analytical findings and recommendations to key stakeholders
Work to model/forecast financial return on investment to support business unit leaders on new initiatives or new product lines
Assist in the preparation of materials for board meetings, investor meetings and miscellaneous presentations
Target, screen and communicate with strategic investors to provide the best-in-class investor pool for further financial capital raising
Oversee payroll (compensation, benefits, etc.) for contractors, agencies and full time hires
Supply chain
Oversee the end-to-end supply chain’s health from product production through inventory management to shipping to customers/wholesale partners
Manage and oversee the outbound/inbound team, which includes full time and hourly works
Negotiate and manage all co-packing and production partners across to ensure correct production volumes
Hold co-packers and productions to our best-in-class standards
Review and partner with our legal team on co-packing and production partner agreements and SLAs
Implement and ensure accuracy of an inventory management system
Integrate inventory management system with financial model to set, defend and project inventory-based capital needs quarterly and annually
Requirements
3-5+ years of demonstrated success in a Strategy, Finance, Consulting and/or Operations role at an ecommerce and/or consumer goods business
Experience raising large amounts of capital for startups and/or high-growth ventures
Experience working with and managing communications with investors
Strong analytical, prioritizing, interpersonal, problem-solving, presentation, budgeting, project management (from conception to completion), & planning skillsStrong verbal and written communication skills (including analysis, interpretation, & reasoning)
Ability to work well autonomously and within a team in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment.
Who you are
Passionate about helping plants, people and the planet
Highly productive, proactive with a demonstrated sense of urgency —a natural self-starter / multi-tasker, but not without deep thought
Obsessive attention to organization and detail for accuracy in setup and deployment
Analytics are your north star for decision making, coupled with critical thinking, solution-oriented
Everyone would describe you as uber-responsive, upbeat and positive
Comfortable and excited by the ambiguity and ever-evolving needs of a startup environment, can juggle competing high-priority projects
Strong team orientation with interpersonal skills to support cross-functional collaboration
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
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