OLIPOP
- Sr. Co-manufacturing Manager
Sr. Co-manufacturing Manager
Remote · Remote possible
Job description
ABOUT US
OLIPOP was founded in 2017 by Ben Goodwin and David Lester. Ben and David have been working together for nearly a decade to find accessible solutions to bring the benefits of digestive health to as many consumers as possible. OLIPOP is a deliciously refreshing tonic that is crafted with prebiotics, botanicals, and natural plant fiber to support your microbiome and benefit digestive health. We're on a mission to provide an affordable, delicious alternative to soda that delivers leading-edge health benefits to mainstream consumers.
OUR TEAM
At Olipop our values lead the way we create our products, engage with each other, and interact with our community. While we’re invested in our product, we’re equally invested in personal development. We’re tightly knit, we’re genuine and we’re always pushing the envelope to do a better job than we did the day before. Our team is also fully remote, requiring us to be resourceful, creative and collaborative to support our fast-moving business.
To best serve our diverse community of customers, we also seek to recruit and include people with a diversity of abilities, backgrounds, and cultures.
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
Working at a start-up can be as much a personal journey as it is a professional one. To succeed at a company like Olipop, you must be comfortable with failing, learning, and adapting. You need to be curious, optimistic, and able to find a way when it seems impossible. You must be confident enough to express your ideas but humble and open to learning from your experiences and from others. If this is the approach you take to life, then we’d love to hear from you.
THE ROLE
Olipop Contract Manufacturing Manager will be tasked with cultivating supplier relationships, coupled with a robust comprehension of the supply network throughout the Supply Chain. The role demands exceptional business negotiation and communication skills, analytical and problem-solving abilities, strategic leadership, a partnership-oriented approach, and a proven track record of deploying and executing new supply chain initiatives to facilitate the rapid expansion of the business. Reports to Olipop Director of Procurement and Co-manufacturing.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Develop robust, mutually beneficial partnerships with external partners by understanding capabilities and developing/executing benchmarks for quality, cost, and delivery.
- Act as the primary channel of communication for the co-manufacturing network, taking ownership and accountability between the brand and third-party manufacturers, fostering transparency, nurturing mutual understanding, and proactively resolving open concerns.
- Identify and execute a rolling 3-year plan that encompasses cost-effective co-manufacturing, warehousing, and assembly solutions to bolster innovation and address growth projections.
- Execute, renew, and negotiate supply agreements, while maintaining key metrics in contract database.
- Develop KPI metrics, establish methods for tracking and presenting them to internal team, and lead Quarterly Business Reviews with all manufacturing partners.
- Develop annual Co-Manufacturing financial plan, including setting standards, monthly forecast updates, and identifying potential risks and opportunities.
- Evaluate external manufacturing capacity, capability, and economics as required, including capital, labor, and logistics requirements.
- Collaborate with ERP, EDI developers to streamline communication, enhance productivity, and foster holistic business optimization.
- Partner with Quality team, attending third-party manufacturers qualifications and production trials, ensuring the product meets taste and quality standards, and is made to spec.
- Collaborate with the Planning team to align production needs, and ensure production schedules are effectively communicated, displayed, and systematically executed.
QUALIFICATIONS
- Minimum of 7 years of experience in Supply Chain, QA, Contract Manufacturing.
- Proven business, negotiation, and analytical/problem-solving skills; experience negotiating and developing and managing contracts and agreements.
- Extensive knowledge of manufacturing and contract management.
- Experience working with NetSuite and / or Oracle ERP a strong plus
- Strong understanding of production standards manual, bill of materials, etc.
- Broad knowledge base in ingredients, quality, packaging, manufacturing, shipping, regulatory, etc.
- Solution-oriented problem solver and possesses a growth mindset.
- Ability to handle complex situations involving multiple SKU’s, channels, and distribution models.
- Transparent, open/honest communicator and strong relationship building and management skills.
- Ability to be a collaborative leader and team member in a dynamic high growth environment.
- Ability to resolve, recommend, and strategically influence conflicting interests and priorities from different functions.
- Experience working in a startup, high growth environment is also a plus.
- Experience working successfully with remote teams in multiple states.
- This position is fully remote. 50% travel to co-packers as required.
REPORTS TO:
Director of Procurement
COMPENSATION:
$120,000-$130,000 base salary + bonus
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Olipop does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination under Federal law. For more information, please see EEO is the Law.
