The posting
Position Title: Plant Controller Manager
Job Grade: Manager
Work Location: Factory and/or Bangkok Office
Direct Reports: Finance and Control Director
Accountability and Objectives
Manage Plant Control function to deliver tasks timely with accuracy and insight for company and cross functions to achieve the objectives.
Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in Finance, Accounting, or related fields
- Minimum of 7-10 years of experience in Plant Controlling and/or Financial Planning and Analysis
- Experience in a manufacturing environment
- Hands-on ERP experience
- Excellent analytical ability and business acumen with strong articulation to convert data into business insights
Key Responsibilities
Financial Performance Management
- Provide insightful analysis with recommendations for monthly performance
- Continuously review and improve management reports
- Lead financial planning process (budget and monthly forecast) and its improvement to ensure accuracy, completeness, and sound financial consideration
- Support business development and financial performance improvement
- Support key production initiatives: capacity expansion, co-manufacturing, outsourcing
Cost Saving and Capital Investment
- Proactively search for process improvement and cost efficiency
- Responsible for business justifications and feasibility studies
- Ensure realization of benefits from cost-saving and capital projects
- Drive asset utilization and control with operations and supply chain teams
Production and Headcount Planning
- Coordinate with supply chain to ensure optimal production and bottling planning
- Coordinate with production and HR for direct labor and overtime planning
- Validate and forecast labor costs with HR
- Provide recommendations to optimize direct labor costs
Operating Cost Planning and Other Priorities
- Validate, challenge, and monitor cost-saving initiatives and their implementation
- Drive efficiency in other operating costs (e.g., consumables, departmental spending)
- Support NPD (New Product Development) with R&D and production teams
- Responsible for accurate product costing and timely updates to transfer pricing to ensure profit targets
- Coordinate and follow up on internal control agenda across operations
Key Skill Leadership
- Strong leadership skills with a focus on achieving results
- Stakeholder management and cross-functional interpersonal skills (Thailand/US leadership)
- Ability to deliver under tight deadlines (time management)
- Teamwork and collaboration
- Excellent analytics and ability to derive business insights
- Self-motivated and proactive in continuous improvement
- Anticipates potential concerns
Company Core Values
- Protect the Most Vulnerable
- Craft Incredible Things
- Act with Heart
- Make the Impossible Possible



