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About the Role
We are hiring a Supply Chain & Procurement Director for a fast-growing functional beverage brand in the US. The company manufactures and sells a colorful, flavor-forward product line at significant scale, with 100+ active SKUs, weekly new flavor drops, and a tolling-based manufacturing model across 50+ ingredients.
This is a high-ownership role for someone who can keep a fast-moving product calendar fully supplied without overbuying. You will own planning, procurement, manufacturing coordination, and inventory across the entire operation, and you will be the person who spots shortages, bottlenecks, and risks before they turn into stockouts.
What You Will Do
Supply Chain Planning
- Own the end to end supply chain planning process across raw materials, packaging, finished goods, production timelines, and inventory availability
- Ensure the brand is never out of stock and is prepared for rapid sales spikes, limited edition drops, and weekly product launches
- Build and maintain systems that support 100+ active SKUs and frequent new flavor innovation
- Partner with manufacturing, operations, finance, product development, and leadership to align production planning with demand
- Identify bottlenecks, risks, and shortages before they become business problems
Procurement & Raw Material Management
- Manage procurement across 50+ ingredients, including flavor systems, functional ingredients, packaging, and other raw materials
- Own supplier relationships and negotiate aggressively to secure the lowest possible cost without compromising quality, lead times, or supply reliability
- Build multiple sourcing options for critical ingredients to reduce dependency and improve leverage
- Monitor lead times, MOQs, price changes, supplier capacity, and inventory risk
- Drive continuous cost savings across the supply base
Manufacturing Coordination
- Work directly with toll manufacturers to ensure production is completed on time, in full, and to quality standards
- Track production schedules, ingredient availability, packaging readiness, and finished goods output
- Hold manufacturing partners accountable to agreed timelines, quality standards, and service levels
- Escalate issues quickly and solve problems in real time
- Support rapid product drops and innovation cycles without sacrificing execution quality
Inventory, Forecasting & Cash Conversion
- Maintain accurate inventory visibility across raw materials, packaging, WIP, and finished goods
- Build planning tools and reporting that help the business make fast, informed inventory decisions
- Balance inventory availability with cash discipline, avoiding both stockouts and unnecessary overbuying
- Improve the cash conversion cycle through smarter purchasing, better production planning, and tighter inventory management
- Analyze demand patterns, drop performance, reorder needs, and SKU velocity
Quality & On Time Execution
- Ensure every product is produced to specification and meets brand quality expectations
- Partner with QA and manufacturing teams to address product, ingredient, packaging, or production issues immediately
- Ensure product availability supports fast shipping, accurate orders, and a strong customer experience
- Protect the brand by making sure supply chain execution matches the speed of customer demand
Requirements
What We Are Looking For
- Proven experience in supply chain, procurement, production planning, manufacturing coordination, or operations leadership
- Experience with food, beverage, supplements, CPG, powders, stick packs, or high SKU consumer products strongly preferred
- Strong procurement and supplier negotiation skills
- Highly analytical with excellent Excel skills
- Strong written and verbal communication, with fast, clear, and accurate responses
- Strong understanding of inventory planning, lead times, purchase orders, production schedules, and the cash conversion cycle
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, vendors, ingredients, timelines, and urgent issues at once
- Extremely detail oriented and highly accountable
- Comfortable in a fast paced, high pressure, high growth environment
- Willingness to be highly responsive outside traditional business hours when the business requires it
Details
- Full time, fully remote
- Aligned to US business hours
- Direct exposure to leadership and real ownership over a core function of the business
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Work From Home
- Flexible Hours
