Procurement Operations Manager (Remote)

Schedule: M-F, 9 AM – 5 PM Eastern Time

Salary: TBD depending on experience

Job Overview:

Procurement Operations Manager will be responsible for managing key weekly procurement activities across all categories (wet/dry product, packaging, etc.) as well as managing order fulfillment to our retail partners. Reporting to the Senior Manager of Procurement, responsibility will be given to you from day one, and you will be expected to use your initiative and creativity to help us grow our business. You are a roll-up-your-sleeves operator who thrives in detail, organization, and analysis to deliver measurable results. As part of the Procurement team, you will play a key role in improving our costs, product quality, supply chain reliability, and product innovation – helping us deliver the best possible value to our customers.

Responsibilities:

• Work closely with our Suppliers, Distribution Centers and Carriers to ensure on time, in full, in quality supply of all products
• Place purchase orders and track inventory levels and ensure proper safety stock coverage based on our forecast
• Help build and maintain our supply plan and share forecasts with our suppliers
• Manage inbound logistics to our Distribution Centers
• Manage the end-to-end process to fulfill purchase orders from our retail partners, including releasing inventory, outbound logistics, and invoicing
• Leverage available data and reports to understand ops performance and drive changes/insights based on those insights
• Work on initiatives to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our inbound supply chain processes, including supporting waste management and cost savings opportunities
• Drive continuous improvement efforts by recommending changes, testing new processes, onboarding new procurement tech software and implementing updates
• Complete complex or simple analyses to support operational projects
• Complete regular reporting on various metrics such as inventory health or supplier performance KPIs
• Support the Sr. Procurement Manager with the implementation of the category strategy
• Partner closely with members across the company and its stakeholders
• Contribute to our mission of helping pets live a happier, healthier life by changing the way they eat

Requirements:

• Detail-oriented with proven ability to multitask, work under pressure, and meet time sensitive deadlines
• Data driven- curious about what insights can be derived from numbers
• A clear communicator: With solid written and oral communications skills. Able to clearly coordinate and provide information to co-workers
• Cost focused: You’re able to identify and deliver cost savings using a variety of levers from negotiating to more strategic procurement levers
• Team-oriented: You have a track record of working in cross-functional teams and cultivating collaborative partnerships at all levels and departments of an organization
• Customer-focused: Slightly obsessive-compulsive when it comes to customer experience and strive to deliver a product that is second to none
• Strategic: You recognize and resolve situations that are ambiguous or challenging and use logic to identify alternatives, evaluate, and present approaches to solving complex problems while thinking in terms of contingency plans
• Creative: Challenge conventional methods and open to new ideas
• Highly adaptable- you thrive in a fast-paced, high-change and dynamic work environment
• Self-starter: Capable of jumping into new challenges, quickly assessing what needs to be done, building a plan and executing flawlessly

At a minimum, you have…

• 3 to 5 years experience in supply chain or procurement operations
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• A degree in supply chain, business, engineering, other relevant area of study; or comparable work experience
• Excellent Excel and analytical skills, for example using pivot tables and v-lookups
• Fluent in Microsoft Office and Google Suite applications
• Quick to learn new systems and tools such as Warehouse Management and EDI portals
• Proactive, ambitious, and assertive: you take ownership of your work and should think beyond the scope of a given assignment
• Highly organized and detail-oriented: you have well-honed strategies for never missing a deadline or overlooking a key detail, and are comfortable juggling multiple priorities at once
• Ability to thrive in an unstructured, fast-moving, and constantly evolving high-growth environment
• This position’s essential functions demand the performance of the following physical requirements with or without reasonable accommodation:
• Prolonged periods working at a desk and on a computer
• Reading information on a computer screen and inputting data into a computer system

Tools to use

• Excel
• Microsoft Office
• Google Suite applications
• Warehouse Management Systems
• EDI Portals