Director, Manufacturing Operations FP&A
Trex CompanyWhen you work at Trex, you’re helping to grow and enhance a true original. You join a company that boldly launched an entire industry… and still leads the way. As Director, Manufacturing Operations FP&A, you will lead the financial planning, analysis, and decision-support for operational excellence, procurement, and logistics. This role establishes the operating-finance framework, translates operational drivers into financial outcomes, and provides forward-looking insight to improve cost competitiveness, capacity utilization, service, working capital, and capital allocation. The Director serves as a strategic partner to plant, supply chain, procurement, logistics, engineering, finance, and corporate leadership; owns the integrity and consistency of operational forecasts and KPIs; and drives accountability for performance and corrective actions across the network. RESPONSIBILITIES Put safety first – Always! Lead and foster our “people first” culture. Forecasting & Planning Support monthly, quarterly, and annual forecasting for manufacturing, procurement, and logistics, including volume, material costs, inbound and outbound freight, warehousing, and distribution costs. Establish and govern driver-based models that project operational and financial performance under multiple demand, production, sourcing, commodity, freight, and capacity scenarios. Direct the cross-functional planning process with operations, engineering, procurement, logistics, and supply chain leaders to validate assumptions, reconcile operational plans, and align forecast inputs. Own the annual operating plan and long-range financial planning processes for the manufacturing network, including productivity roadmaps, capacity requirements, sourcing strategies, logistics costs, and capital needs. Prepare bridge analyses that clearly explain financial forecast-to-forecast and forecast-to-plan variances. Develop executive-level scenarios and recommendations that quantify trade-offs among cost, capacity, inventory, customer service, sourcing risk, and capital deployment. Define planning standards, calendars, assumptions, and review routines to improve forecast accuracy and accountability across functions and locations. Operational & Financial Analysis Analyze actual manufacturing results including productivity, material usage, downtime, labor efficiency, machine utilization, and OEE. Deliver monthly financial KPI reporting packages with clear commentary and recommendations. Perform variance analysis on production costs, inventory, and plant performance. Investigate root causes of unfavorable trends and partner on corrective actions. Monitor and analyze inventory accuracy, production variances, waste, and yield. Evaluate cost impacts of engineering changes, process improvements, and capital projects. Procurement & Logistics FP&A Lead financial planning and performance analysis for direct and indirect procurement, inbound and outbound logistics, warehousing, distribution, and third-party service providers. Partner with procurement to evaluate supplier negotiations, sourcing events, make-versus-buy decisions, contract economics, commodity exposure, purchase price variance, and total cost of ownership. Partner with logistics and operations to analyze freight rates, mode and carrier mix, fuel and accessorial charges, network design, warehouse productivity, inventory positioning, detention, demurrage, and service-level trade-offs. Build savings and productivity governance that validates baselines, timing, one-time costs, risk adjustments, and realized P&L and cash-flow benefits. Provide financial support for supplier and carrier scorecards, procurement pipelines, logistics bids, and network-optimization initiatives. Assess working-capital implications of sourcing and logistics decisions, including payment terms, order quantities, lead times, safety stock, inventory turns, and obsolescence risk. Leadership & Business Partnership Serve as the s…