Jake’s Finer Foods Mission: We commit to glorifying God by providing superior quality, exceptional service and creative solutions for our customers.

Jake’s Finer Foods Vision: At Jake’s Finer Foods, we succeed only when we meet and exceed the needs of our customers, business partners and team members. We will become the distribution solutions provider of choice by embracing change, opportunities and the future. We lead by example, surpass standards and advance the industry through excellence and experience.

Jake’s Finer Foods Core Values:

•  Faith
• Customer-Focused
• Teamwork
• Integrity & Accountability
• Respect & Professionalism

Jake’s Finer Foods Culture: Our founder, Kervin E. “Jake” Jacob, once said, “Dreams really can come true when your values include commitment, service, and a good day’s work.” At Jake’s, we take these words to heart, and we strive to put them into action every day. We are a family-oriented and owned business, and the foundation of our company is built on strong roots in integrity, servant leadership, superior customer service, and treating our suppliers, team members, and customers with appreciation and respect. We think Jake would be proud of how we carry on in his name.

Jake’s Finer Foods Business: Jake’s Finer Foods is a leading broadline distributor and restaurant supply company delivering quality food, exceptional service and custom solutions to foodservice providers and restaurants throughout east Texas and western Louisiana. Combining the strength of experience with the innovation of today, we consistently deliver a selection of nearly 10,000 items including custom-cut center-of-the-plate choices, fresh produce, everyday staples, and many unique and specialty products. We are Texas born and bred since 1946, local, family-owned and operated.

Role Summary: Jake’s Credit Manager is accountable for protecting our largest asset, accounts receivable, and responsible for supporting profitable sales growth with extension of appropriate payment terms for our valued customers. The ideal candidate possesses outstanding decision making and negotiation skills, a healthy bias towards hospitality, and viewed as a servant-leader. This position interacts regularly with our sales team, customers, and has high visibility with executives on key decisions.

This position is a key leader of the finance team and reports directly to the Chief Financial Officer. Success requires setting high standards and expectations balanced with business savvy to understand our industry doesn’t operate with a set of black and white rules.

 The core responsibilities of the Credit Manager include but not limited to:

• Gains alignment with executives and sales team on Jake’s written and unwritten policies, guardrails, processes, and practices relating to credit, collections, and payment processing.
• Gets the right people in the right seats for an exceptional team.
• Leads, cares, and develops her/his team.
• Creates the right rhythm of reports, meetings, and actions to appropriately inform people and to foster a culture of accountability.
• Manages all things pertaining to credit, collections, and payment processing with a hunger for continuous improvement and disruption of outdated practices.
• Meets performance goals consistently to minimize bad debts, reduce capital requirements, grow sales, process collections/payments efficiently, and complete projects on time.

 The Credit Manager must perform other job-related duties in areas of responsibility as assigned.

 ** Complete Job description with detailed list of duties will be provided upon request.