Data and Costing Manager

Description: Position Mission Own CCI Prime's data foundation — the BOMs, costing and raw material specifications the business runs on — deciding what data the Company keeps and what it does not, pursuing it from operations, supply chain and vendors and entering into the system, and setting and enforcing the standards that keep it right, so that purchasing, valuation and cost control improve and a future buyer gets numbers that survive diligence. Company and Context CCI Prime (“the Company” or “CCI”) was founded in 1988 and is co-located in Brooklyn, New York and Bethlehem, PA, the site of a major production expansion and relocation. The Company is a leading domestically-owned manufacturer of frozen and shelf-stable Chinese appetizers — dumplings, bao buns, cured meats, soup dumplings and related items — distributed widely through Asian supermarkets across the United States, with storage facilities in the Western United States enabling bi-coastal distribution. In 2023, Frontenac, a Chicago-based private equity firm, partnered with CCI Prime and President Albert Chan to support growth investments and drive distribution and channel gains across the retail market. The Company is consolidating production into Bethlehem and closing New York production, and is building toward a sale within the next two to three years. Every role in the finance organization is written to one standard — grow enterprise value and be able to prove it: grow EBITDA and the quality of that EBITDA, release working capital, remove risk from a future diligence process, and leave the Company able to enter a sale process on short notice without a scramble. Position Summary This is a new position, created deliberately ahead of any financial systems upgrade rather than after it. The Company's system data — item master, BOMs, routings, standard costs, raw material specifications, vendor and inventory records — is incomplete and inadequate, and the closure of New York production will change BOMs and some SKUs as those items move to Bethlehem. Cleaning and completing that data now, while the change is happening, is far cheaper than migrating bad data into a new system later. The role is an ownership role, not a reporting one. It sits at two altitudes at once. In the detail, the person in it chases a missing minimum order quantity out of a vendor, corrects a yield on a BOM, and types the specification into the system themselves. At the system level, they decide what data CCI Prime needs and what it does not, write the standards and policies that govern it, and make the case to the rest of the business for why those standards matter. Both halves are the job; neither is optional. The first priority of the role is the New York to Pennsylvania transition: reviewing and updating every SKU transferring to Bethlehem so that each has a validated BOM, routing and standard cost built and tested before its first production run there. That work is time-boxed by the plant closure and cannot slip. The wider data foundation is built around and through it, not after it. The role carries real decision authority without carrying headcount. Within the master data domain, this person is the Company's decision maker: what is required, what is optional, what gets retired, who may create or change a record and under what approval. That authority is delegated by the CFO and the VP, Finance and Accounting and is expected to be exercised, not deferred back upward. The Company is consolidating production into Bethlehem and building toward a sale within the next two to three years. Inventory valuation, standard costing and SKU profitability are among the first things a buyer's quality of earnings review will test. The quality of this person's work is what those answers rest on. Core Responsibilities New York Closure and Pennsylvania Transition — First Priority This is the first priority of the role. Until every transferring…

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