Procurement Operations Manager

Procurement Operations & Analytics

• Build and maintain operational frameworks that improve how the procurement team collaborates, prioritizes work and delivers against goals.
• Identify opportunities to streamline and standardize repeatable processes, ensuring clarity and efficiency across initiatives.
• Develop scalable systems and documentation practices that support transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Serve as a central coordinator for internal workflows, ensuring roles, responsibilities, and timelines are clearly defined and adhered to.
• Manage and develop the Procurement Analyst, setting priorities and ensuring strong execution across key operational and analytical workstreams.
• Oversee market and commodity tracking (e.g., proteins, packaging inputs, freight), ensuring timely, accurate insights are available to inform sourcing strategies and reforecasting.
• Drive reporting and data visibility across procurement, including cost tracking, supplier performance, and key risk indicators.
• Translate data into actionable insights to support Category Owners and leadership in decision making.

New Products & Commercialization Support

• Support procurement execution for Stage 0 commercialization and new product introductions by coordinating timelines, inputs and cross functional alignment.
• Partner with Category Owners, who retain ownership of sourcing strategy, to ensure early engagement, clear requirements, and alignment on ingredient sourcing, cost targets, and timelines.
• Help facilitate supplier identification, evaluation, and onboarding in collaboration with Category Owners, ensuring alignment with broader sourcing strategies.
• Drive visibility into risks, dependencies, and readiness across stakeholders, ensuring issues are surfaced and addressed early.
• Lead coordination of procurement workstreams for new coman setup, ensuring readiness across contracting, ingredient availability, and documentation.
• Act as a central point of coordination for cross functional partners, ensuring procurement related requirements and risks are proactively managed.
• Establish and track timelines, dependencies, and ownership within the procurement team to support smooth coman onboarding.

Qualifications

• You have 5+ years of experience in Purchasing, Supply Chain, or Manufacturing roles.
• In depth knowledge of Lean and Six Sigma methodologies and tools.
• You have excellent analytics skills and a proven track record of translating data driven insight into action and consumer facing impact.
• You have clear, confident and persuasive verbal & written communication skills when working with a diverse group of cross stakeholders.
• You have project management experience and the ability to drive initiatives from concept to implementation.
• You are a strong problem-solver and take a proactive approach to overcoming operational challenges.
• You are adaptable and resilient in a dynamic and rapidly evolving business environment.
• You’re experienced in leveraging vendor relationships, project management, and conflict resolution.
• You develop strategies and take them through implementation and have a strong understanding of economics and analysis of value engineering.
• You’re willing to travel up to 25% of the time.

Benefits

• Dog-friendly office in SoHo
• Market-competitive compensation and equity packages
• Comprehensive Healthcare, Dental, and Vision
• Company supported mental health benefits
• 12 week paid parental leave
• Competitive 401k plan with company match
• Flexible PTO
• Discounted fresh food for your pup
• Your pet interrupting video calls (and in-person meetings) is now a feature, not a bug

Pay

• The anticipated hiring base compensation range is USD annual and the compensation offered will include a robust market competitive package of base and equity.

Schedule

• We are an in-office culture, made of in-office people who thrive on the collaboration and magnetism of working in a shared space.