Bare Bones

Bare Bones is a rapidly growing food and beverage brand focused on delivering nutrition in delicious and wildly convenient formats.

Bare Bones is a rapidly growing food and beverage brand focused on delivering nutrition in delicious and wildly convenient formats. Over the past three years the company has more than doubled in size (from under $10 million to over $20 million in revenue), become consistently profitable, expanded its product line from broths to include both soups and beverages, and has expanded its retail footprint to include Costco and leading grocery retailers (including national distribution at Whole Foods and Kroger). The company is seeking a procurement leader to help support and drive future growth through innovative and effective supply chain and procurement practices. 

Essential Responsibilities:

1. Operational Leadership: Develop and execute operational strategies that align with the company's growth objectives and ensure operational excellence across all functions.
2. Hands-On Management: Lead by example and be actively involved in the day-to-day operations, rolling up your sleeves to drive outcomes when necessary
3. Cost Management: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to manage the cost of goods sold (COGS) effectively. Identify cost-saving opportunities and drive initiatives to improve profitability.
4. Supplier and Customer Relationships: Cultivate strong relationships with key supplier partners that deliver vs. KPIs across cost, quality, service, innovation, and others. Collaborate closely with key supplier partners and customers to ensure mutual success and alignment with Bare Bones’ values and goals. Negotiate and manage supplier contracts to maximize value, mitigate risk, identify improvement opportunities, and minimize total cost of ownership
5. Innovation Support/Ingredient Sourcing: Work with innovation team to source ingredients for innovation projects and benchtop testing to meet standards within the project brief
6. Create Redundancy: Conduct formal bidding process with diverse group of suppliers, vetting primary and secondary suppliers to ensure redundancies along the supply chain
7. Documentation: Gather and maintain necessary documentation for all raw materials and maintain accurate information within IMS
8. Forecasting: Work with planning team to determine ingredient needs for upcoming productions, place orders for ingredients and packaging within WMS and ensure delivery to appropriate supplier partners in a timely manner to support productions
9. Maintain all certifications – organic, Non-GMO Project, GFCO, etc. – ensuring no lapses in compliance
10. Lead CAPA process for any deliveries of ingredients or packaging outside of specification and work with vendor partner to resolve issues for current and future deliveries
11. Provide input into capital budgeting process with cross-functional stakeholders in Manufacturing and Innovation-related functions
12. Identify strategic partnership opportunities across multi-year time horizon to maximize value and minimize risk for BB

Job Requirements:

1. Sound technical knowledge/experience in ingredients/commodities categories for food/beverage/CPG
2. Ability to develop and cultivate win-win relationships with suppliers and manufacturing partners
3. Ability to mobilize cross-functional teams to manage risk and deliver value
4. Strong business, communication and interpersonal skills
5. Ability to consistently deliver rapid results
6. Nimble and comfortable with change/pivoting
7. High level of attention to detail and high performance standards for self
8. An entrepreneurial/growth mindset
9. Proficient with Excel, Dropbox, Google Sheets, etc.
10. Comfortable working in a hybrid work environment
11. Must reside in the United States

Qualifications:

• Proven experience in a senior procurement role, preferably within the consumer packaged goods industry, with a track record of successfully managing high-growth supply chains.
• Expertise in sourcing, inventory management, and logistics, with a focus on efficiency, cost control, and quality.
• Financial acumen with a track record of achieving strong financial results through effective operations management.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, suppliers, and customers.
• A collaborative and ego-free approach to working with colleagues and partners.
• Bachelor's degree in business, supply chain management, operations, or a related field. MBA or advanced degree is a plus.

How we work:

• No two days here are the same
• We try to be good team members and good communicators, but we don’t live by hierarchy and structure – everyone is a difference maker here
• We make a lot of decisions in the face of incomplete information – our team embraces ambiguity and tries to make good decisions fast rather than great decisions slow
• We believe our job is to take smart risk, not to eliminate risk
• We believe in growing our skills and becoming a better company with more managerial expertise, but we are an entrepreneurial company at heart
• We aren’t trying to be average – we want to do exceptional things and we are willing to work hard and hustle to achieve our goals
• We take no shortcuts to excellence, ethics or quality – we do right by the consumer, always

Job Summary:

 Develop and lead a sourcing and procurement capability that can serve as a source of competitive advantage for the company. Lead sourcing, supplier management and end-to-end value creation for $10M+ Ingredients spend across Bare Bone’s business. Fully accountable for all supplier relationships and performance. Leverage skill/scale for new opportunities and to deliver against broader business objectives. This team member will help develop the job function as the company prepares for significant growth across the US and International businesses. Support and enable rapid product innovation through a close partnership with the Product Development team.

Looking for a candidate who exhibits both hustle and attention to detail.

San Francisco Bay Area/Remote

No Deadline Provided

90,000+ depending on experience