Clemens Food Group · 5 days ago
Chief Financial Operating Officer (CFOO)
Hatfield, PA
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
15+ years expClemens Food Group is seeking a bold, forward-looking Chief Financial Operating Officer to drive their business into the future. This leader will lead the financial areas of the business, anticipate challenges, and drive growth and transformation while ensuring the organization remains competitive in the global protein and real estate industries.
AgricultureFood and Beverage
Responsibilities
Look beyond finance to shape enterprise-wide strategy and challenge business decisions to ensure sustainable, profitable growth
Anticipate risks and opportunities before they appear; deploy proactive solutions to secure long-term competitiveness
Push the organization to think and act strategically in every decision, from operations to customer partnerships
Ensure decisions align with management, board, and shareholder expectations while securing the long-term health of the business
Drive capital allocation, acquisitions, and growth investments with discipline and speed
Champion large-scale initiatives that strengthen operations, supply chain, and market presence
Forge and deepen strategic customer and partner relationships
Serve as a visible industry leader and company ambassador in the community
Secure efficient sources of capital and optimize liquidity strategies
Lead M&A opportunities end-to-end—from financial evaluation to integration
Build a high-performing finance function that is agile, forward-thinking, and deeply integrated into the business
Demand accountability and excellence from teams; challenge them to continuously raise performance
Identify, coach, and develop future leaders across the organization
Ensure succession planning and a strong leadership pipeline
Champion cross-functional collaboration to accelerate results and innovation
Create a culture where business and finance teams partner together on the highest impact opportunities
Establish clear financial expectations and ensure transparent communication of results to stakeholders
Create efficiency in finance and accounting so the team can focus on value-creating activities
Lead rigorous risk management and mitigation strategies
Ensure critical assets are protected while enabling bold, future-focused decision-making
Oversee all reporting, compliance, and governance with clarity and precision
Qualification
Required
A strategic challenger who sees around corners and pushes the organization to act decisively
A direct and confident operator who thrives in complexity and leads with urgency
A proven change agent
An inspirational leader of people who builds strong teams, mentors future leaders, and sets a high-performance culture
A person who thrives in idea creation, spontaneous problem-solving, and serving as a resource to all areas of the business, and enjoys taking winning ideas to execution
A person who is confident yet humble
A person who loves process but is okay with ambiguity
Preferred
15+ years of leadership in large-scale manufacturing (protein industry experience strongly preferred)
Company
Clemens Food Group
Founded in 1895, Clemens Food Group is a sixth-generation, family-owned vertically coordinated pork production operation, with sister organizations that include feed milling, farming, processing, transportation, and logistics.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
John Santoro, SPHR
Senior VP-CPO
Brenda Andujar
Human Resources Business Partner
Recent News
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2025-01-10
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