Procurement Lead

About Us

Hungryroot is using AI to build the most consumer-centric food and wellness company to ever exist. We act as your personal assistant for healthy living—getting to know your goals, lifestyle, and budget, and recommending and delivering healthy groceries, easy recipes, and essential supplements for you and your family.

It’s the easiest way to eat healthy, achieve your goals, save time, and discover new foods. We believe food is the foundation of health, convenience should not mean compromise, and that everyone is unique in how they eat and live. That’s why we’re building a future in which healthy living is both easy and enjoyable.

About the role

Hungryroot is seeking a Procurement Lead to build and operationalize a centralized procurement function. This is a contracted role (6–12 months) with potential for full-time conversion. You'll own vendor spend, sourcing strategy, and procurement infrastructure across the business, partnering closely with Finance and business leaders. We are looking for meaningful cost savings in technology and marketing and displacement of spend with AI solutions within the first 6 months of the contract.

Responsibilities

• Drive vendor consolidation, pricing normalization, and contract discipline
• Own enterprise-wide vendor spend visibility, sourcing, and negotiation
• Establish procurement workflows and approval processes, as necessary, without slowing down the business
• Partner with FP&A to integrate savings into budgeting and forecasting
• Over time, develop supplier performance metrics and ongoing vendor management

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, or supply/vendor management
• Proven track record of delivering cost savings and operational improvements at scale
• Strong negotiation, contract management, and stakeholder management skills
• Experience partnering with Finance/FP&A on budgeting, forecasting, and ROI analysis
• Ability to build processes and teams in a high-growth environment
• Strong analytical skills with comfort working across spend data and vendor economics
• Experience in consumer, e-commerce, food, or high-growth operating environments is preferred
• Prior leadership experience building a procurement function from the ground up is a plus

The employer will not sponsor applicants for work visas.

Our mission to help make healthy eating easy, accessible, and joyful is better served by a diverse workplace. We are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building an inclusive workplace. We have zero-tolerance for harassment or discrimination. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected class.