Ventura Foods

Systems Engineer

• Lead efforts to bridge business needs with technological solutions
• Provide advanced support and guidance to both business partners and development teams
• Conduct technology discovery and in-depth process analysis
• Define business requirements and guide teams to successful completion of strategic initiatives
• Oversee complex projects and collaborate with multiple departments including R&D, Marketing, Operations, Supply Chain, Quality, and IT
• Ensure effective communication between partners and management
• Mentor less experienced team members and lead quality test planning efforts
• Manage User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and deployment communications

Senior Business Systems Analyst

Accounting Manager

• Guide and support the Commodities Accounting Manager in ensuring accurate and timely execution of commodity oil-related accounting activities across daily, weekly, monthly, and annual cycles.
• Provide strategic direction and mentorship to the Cost Accounting Managers, ensuring accurate execution of monthly, quarterly, and annual cost activities and reporting.
• Oversee budget variance analysis for labor efficiency, material usage and yields, overhead spending, and capacity utilization, while driving actionable insights to support operational and financial objectives.
• Provide team with alternate methodologies, such as incremental costing, when adding new manufacturing line(s) to a plant or when there is a significant change in volume during the fiscal year.
• Lead the training and development of the Cost Accounting team, ensuring proficiency in current systems, best-practice methodologies and evolving technologies.
• Oversee and coordinate audit support activities relating to standard cost and commodity valuation, ensuring the accounting team receives accurate data and documentation to maintain compliance and operational excellence.
• Provide support to other projects assigned by VP, Finance and Accounting and EVP, CFO, as needed.

Senior Director, Cost Accounting

Business Analyst

• Join an industry leading B2B food manufacturing company as our Salesforce Service Cloud Business Administrator, where you’ll own and optimize the platform that powers our customer-facing operations.
• As the business user lead, administer, maintain, and optimize the Salesforce Service Cloud platform to support Customer Service, Customer Experience, Sales, Operations, QA, and IT teams.
• Manage user accounts, profiles, permission sets, queues, and roles for a large user base across multiple departments.
• Configure and maintain Service Cloud features, including case management, routing rules, automation tools (Flows, Validation Rules), Omni-Channel, chat, and knowledge base.
• Serve as the primary liaison between business stakeholders and IT, translating business needs into system functionality and enhancements.
• Build and maintain dashboards and reports for individual contributors, managers, and executives to provide actionable insights and track key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Develop and deliver training materials, job aids, and onboarding programs to drive user adoption and best practices across all functions.
• Monitor and adoption. Troubleshoot and resolve platform issues, escalate technical problems to IT or external support as needed, and ensure system uptime and data accuracy.
• Support release management, including testing, deployment, and documentation of new features and enhancements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify and implement process improvements, automation opportunities, and system integrations.
• Ensure compliance with data governance, security, and privacy standards within the Salesforce environment.
• Support SLA development, escalation paths development, and case lifecycle governance.

Salesforce Service Cloud Business Analyst

Manager

• Build trusted relationships within the assigned business unit/function and serve as the primary IT engagement point for that scope.
• Stimulate, surface, and shape demand into decision-ready items (problem statement, outcomes, scope assumptions, dependencies, risks, benefit hypothesis).
• Support prioritization readiness by clarifying tradeoffs and sequencing recommendations; escalate decisions through established governance.
• Run a predictable communications cadence for the assigned scope (monthly/quarterly updates aligned to governance).
• Own the portfolio narrative, communicate priorities, tradeoffs, progress, risks, and value outcomes in a way that enables timely decisions and stakeholder confidence.
• Produce concise stakeholder-ready updates: what’s in flight, what’s next, what’s blocked, and decisions needed.
• Ensure messages translate delivery status into business impact language; provide inputs to IT-level summaries / Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) as requested.
• Partner with PMO and delivery leads to track progress, risks/issues, dependencies, and readiness for key initiatives within the scope.
• Coordinate outcome and value reporting with initiative owners (adoption, benefits realized, stakeholder feedback).

Business Relationship Manager

Product Manager

• Ensure training and development activities are provided to optimize staff skills, conduct performance appraisals, and develop individual objectives for staff.
• Lead and supervise the product development team at a Center of Excellence.
• Prepare and monitor related departmental budgets.
• Administer the project work load.
• Oversee activities of the staff to ensure high quality results and timely completion of all projects within budgetary guidelines.
• Responsible for cultivating business relationships with our Sales, Culinary and Marketing teams and customers.
• Work with and manage the team collaboration with Ventura chefs in the development of new menu concepts and value added finished products.
• Review project request for both operational and economical viability prior to starting product development.
• Technical/PD representation communicating Product Development concerns, issues, requirements and details to our internal partners and customers.
• Ensure accurate, timely response to inquiries from our customers.
• Work internally with Operations, QA, Engineering on capability requirements and Quality concerns and issues.
• Work internally with Sales and Marketing on new product initiatives.
• Remain current with advances in Sauce and dressing technology and industry needs to provide leadership and technical expertise to ensure productivity and delivery of quality products and services to our National Chain Account Customers.
• May represent Vice President or Director as required at meetings or industry events.
• May interview and recommend hiring of technical personnel.

Product Development Manager

• Oversee the system architecture, implementation, operations support, and ongoing optimization of PLM processes
• Manage platform customizations, extensions, and integrations to ensure seamless connectivity with other critical business functions
• Drive the team and project deliveries towards success
• Serve as a product manager for PLM, shaping the product roadmap to align with Ventura Foods’ vision
• Partner with business stakeholders to understand requirements and design strategic roadmaps for PLM systems and related functions
• Establish governance and guidelines for PLM product management

Senior Manager, Oracle Applications – PLM

Security Engineer

• Manage and develop the application security program by developing the program, working with peers and stakeholders to adopt the program(s) and grow and manage the team as needed
• Develop and implement a Threat Modeling program that drives a Secure by Design SDLC process while working to train and educate stakeholders
• Identify, document, rate, and communicate vulnerabilities in terms of Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability
• Undertake static and dynamic application security assessments for Ventura Foods Entities
• Assess applications for vulnerabilities using manual and automated methods, threat modeling, code reviews, SAST/DAST/Open-Source tool scans, penetration testing
• Develop, curate, and improve application security detections (static and dynamic) to identify vulnerabilities at scale
• Facilitate conversations between developers and security teams to further the security of Ventura Foods software
• Mentor and train developers on secure code best practice

Manager, Application Security

Analyst

• Lead the end-to-end implementation and ongoing management of Ventura Foods’ Oracle Fusion Hire to Retire (H2R) initiatives.
• Responsible for the entire delivery of systems solutions: Requirements, Fit-Gap assessment, Solution Designs, Configurations, Implementation, Validation, and Operational maintenance of H2R track modules.
• Collaborate closely with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams, translating business needs into solutions.
• Manage licenses, monitor system health, ensure scalability of the platform.
• Continuously enhance platform performance and user experience through proactive improvements.

Principal Applications Functional Analyst, Oracle HCM

Financial Planning and Analysis

• Lead the end-to-end implementation and ongoing management of Ventura Foods’ Oracle Fusion Record to Report (R2R) initiatives
• Collaborating closely with business stakeholders and cross-functional teams
• Translate business needs into robust, efficient system solutions
• Define Business process cycles and related cross module/external interfaces & integrations
• Monitor and resolve incidents timely
• Oversee platform administration, optimization, stability, and operational maintenance
• Develop and maintain system solutions, designs, and training materials
• Assess platform quarterly/periodic releases and ensure timely upgrades