Director of Procurement & Raw Materials Strategy

The role

The Director of Procurement & Raw Materials Strategy will own strategic sourcing and supplier management for ingredients and packaging. This role involves building cost accounting and supplier performance infrastructure and managing the purchasing team.

What you will do

• Own supplier strategy across dairy, nutritional ingredients, other ingredients, premixes, and packaging
• Lead negotiation of multi-year supply agreements and master supply agreements
• Qualify and onboard new suppliers
• Build a formal supplier qualification process and scorecards
• Stand up cost accounting and PPV reporting
• Own procurement's use of ERP for planning, MRP, PO issuance, and item costing
• Manage and develop the purchasing team
• Partner with Quality, Regulatory, and Science on specifications and audits
• Partner with Supply Planning and Plant Operations on demand signals and inventory
• Support new product launches from a procurement standpoint

Required qualifications

• 8+ years in procurement or strategic sourcing
• Experience negotiating multi-year supply agreements
• Experience standing up or significantly improving cost accounting or PPV processes
• Comfort working directly in an ERP system and building reporting
• Experience managing suppliers through new product launches including regulatory-driven timelines
• People leadership experience

Nice to have

• Dairy or nutritional ingredient sourcing experience
• Experience in infant formula, baby food, or another FDA-regulated food category
• Experience scaling a procurement function inside a high-growth company

Benefits

• Competitive stock options
• 401k with employer match
• Employee medical, dental, and vision insurance 100% covered by Bobbie
• Flexible Time Off Policy including Summer Fridays and half days on Fridays Memorial Day through Labor Day
• 16 paid company holidays plus an end of year holiday shut down
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave with the option to take an additional 8 months unpaid
• One year subscription to Bobbie
• $75 monthly internet stipend
• Co-working space reimbursement

About the company

Bobbie makes European-style organic infant formula manufactured end-to-end in the U.S. The company includes an advocacy arm called Bobbie for Change.