Senior Manager for Procurement – Personal Care and Grooming

TITLE: Senior Manager for Procurement – Personal Care and Grooming

REPORTING TO: SVP, Operations

PREFERRED LOCATION: UNITED STATES, EXCEPT HAWAII AND ALASKA

Role Overview: 

Reporting to the SVP of Operations, this role will be responsible for building and managing strategic partnerships with domestic and global contract manufacturers to achieve an optimal balance of value, quality, and speed to market for Foundry’s portfolio of brands. Given Foundry’s focus on Personal Care & Grooming, you will stand out if your experience is related to this particular category. You will manage a global team of procurement and freight managers overseeing all procurement, production management, and global freight activities. You will also be responsible for establishing a quantitative category management framework as it relates to procurement, including market intelligence, e-sourcing tools, contract management, benchmarking metrics, suppliers’ performance management frameworks and effective reporting for all procurement related initiatives.

Responsibilities: 

Purchasing: You will oversee all elements of Foundry’s purchasing operations, inclusive of establishing best-in-class processes and tools, building KPIs related to product cost management and transparency around pricing, and leading all negotiation initiatives with suppliers. You will also closely partner with Foundry’s finance team to ensure accurate and timely reporting related to purchasing activities via our ERP, Netsuite. 

Production Management: You will be the main escalation point for all production-related issues, both with domestic and global vendors. Through daily and weekly meetings with key vendors, you will manage lead times, establish robust QA/QC processes, and will be held accountable for ensuring a smooth, on-time production process of quality finished goods.  

Supplier/Vendor Management: Manage relationships with suppliers to ensure a reliable, cost-effective, and operationally efficient flow of goods from manufacturing floor to warehouse.  You will oversee and manage existing suppliers, which includes establishing clear metrics for their performance while driving improvements on cost, quality, and production lead times. 

Global Mile Logistics: You will lead the global inbound shipments planning, execution and delivery as well as ensure flow of information is fully visible in different systems and stakeholders (Inventory Planning, Purchasing, Distribution & Omni Channel Fulfilment) to ensure the right quantity of goods is delivered on time at the right cost to the right location You will manage a team of Global Mile Logistics leads and provide guidelines for their day-to-day operations including: shipments execution, training on internal SOPs and all changes in global trade compliance requirements. 

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing or industrial engineering, and an MBA will be a plus.
• 10 years’ experience in contract manufacturing of a wide range of consumer products i.e. global manufacturing, retail or e-ecommerce organizations across several geographies including Asia-Pacific and US. At least 5+ years experience, specifically, managing personal care, skincare, and grooming manufacturing partners
• Player/coach mentality with exceptional analytical ability, 5+ years managing people/teams and strong creative problem-solving: adept at coming up with creative solutions to production challenges while maintaining a positive and professional attitude with suppliers
• Experience working cross-functionally and/or in matrixed organizations
• A self-starter comfortable in fast paced, highly complex supply chain environments
• Operator at heart with a bias towards action
• Possesses exceptional attention to detail and the ability to zoom out and place challenges/opportunities into a greater business context
• Comfortable operating with messy data and incomplete information – but strives for data-based decision making backed by analytical rigor
• Passionate about empowering teams of people to make decisions, developing strong standardized processes, and leveraging technology to run effective supply chains serving a growth minded organization

 Pay Transparency: 

Please refer to the salary range provided for the role. The actual compensation will be dependent on a variety of job-related competencies which may include work experience, education, technical skill level, and geographic location.  

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Additional Information: For U.S. Roles Only 

We believe entrepreneurship can happen anywhere. With that, most of our roles are 100% remote and will require you to travel for team offsites and company events. We are open to remote hires from all U.S. states except Hawaii and Alaska.  

Employees are eligible to take advantage of some of our benefits such as;  

• Medical, Dental, and Vision. 
• Virtual medical and mental health appointments. 
• Health Advocates to provide support between the insurance company, the doctor, and you, to help you navigate complex insurance and medical questions. 
• Life and disability insurance, both long and short-term. 
• Employee Assistance Programs, accidental insurance, hospital indemnity insurance, and critical illness insurance. 
• Unlimited paid time off for exempt individuals and 15-days for non-exempt employees.
• We observe 10 paid company holidays, 4 mental health days, and 2 days for local charity work or volunteering. 
• Employees are also eligible for paid parental leave plus a paid transitional period to ease new parents back into the workplace.  

If you are interested in joining our team at Foundry, please use this link to share your resume with us. You are more than welcome to include a cover letter if you’d like, however we know you are busy being a superhuman and do not require it.  

Our Promise: 

Foundry believes that the long-term success of our organization starts from within, our people. Our goal is to curate a workforce that is diverse, equitable, and inclusive, echoing that same sentiment throughout our brand acquisitions, vendor partnerships, and advisors. We welcome talent from all backgrounds, ages, abilities, and want a mix of people to bring new ideas to the table to help us concur our mission: growing great brands. Foundry is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ancestry, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender, gender identity, or expression, pregnancy or caregiver status, veteran status or any other status. We will do our part to set each individual at Foundry up for success, providing reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application and each member’s career journey during their tenure here, to perform essential job functions and receive any additional benefits and privileges of employment necessary. Foundry supports visa sponsorship; sponsorship opportunities may be limited to certain roles and skill sets.