Manager, Strategic Sourcing (Ingredients)

Impossible Foods is addressing the most catastrophic threats facing humanity: climate change and biodiversity collapse. A global transition to a plant-based food system will turn back the clock on atmospheric CO2 levels, restore natural ecosystems and reverse meltdown in wildlife biomass.
The easiest -- if not only -- way to make our civilization sustainable is to eliminate livestock, the most dangerous technology on Earth. But humans won’t give up meat. So we need to make meat better -- more delicious and more nutritious, without animals as the underlying production technology. That means that making meat sustainably is the most important and urgent problem for the global scientific community.
Impossible Foods' mission is to completely replace the use of animals as a food-production technology by offering consumers everything they currently value about animal products -- and making products that are vastly superior to their animal analogues.
To do this, we are taking a revolutionary scientific and market-based approach. We are inventing efficient, sustainable ways to transform ingredients from plants into meat, fish and dairy foods that deliver all the pleasures and nutritional benefits consumers demand, without the destructive environmental or public health impact.
Our world-class R&D team has been building the know-how and technology platform to produce meat, fish and dairy foods from plants. Impossible Foods is experiencing rapid growth and is resolutely committed to leading all aspects of the plant-based food revolution—from discovery to commercial production. The only thing that will separate Impossible Foods from success and failure is our ability to recruit more world-class experts.
Want to join? Check out the job opening and requirements below:
This role will be required to be onsite in our headquarters based in Redwood City, CA (post Covid).

You Will

• Manage and oversee the sourcing and negotiation process for majority of all the raw materials used in our manufacturing sites. 
• Leads cross functional teams to develop meaningful requirements to ensure quality responses from suppliers.
• Actively develop secondary and tertiary sources of supply for all managed ingredients. 
• Lead cross functional supplier selection activities through management of formal RFP, RFQ and RFI processes.
• Evaluate the financial stability of potential suppliers.
• Perform required business analysis with a strategic focus on total cost of ownership. Responsible for developing should-cost models for current and future ingredients with a deep understanding of cost drivers for each. 
• Develop a 3-year long-range supply plan that encompasses risk assessment and levers to increase capacity across all raw materials and suppliers to enable product growth and new product introductions. 
• Independently develop a strategic category strategy based on an understanding of business goals and objectives, the supply market and competitive benchmarking. Effectively documents, communicates and gains buy-in across the organization to ensure alignment.
• Establish a supplier performance management process to manage and accelerate supplier business performance and relationships. 
• Continuously seeks out cost savings opportunities and leads efforts to realize those savings.
• Strong internal stakeholder management skills – capacity to listen, build trusting relationships in all levels of the organization, understand and capture stakeholder’s needs and deliver effective solutions
• Proven ability to manage and influence all phases of change management.
• Prior experience working in an ERP system and ability to transact and run reports as needed. 
• Works beyond the traditional procurement metrics to achieve operational and technical improvements to the business process.

You Have

• A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, business, economics or related fields
• Master’s degree or an MBA preferred
• Minimum of 5-7 years of sourcing experience in food, CPG, biotech, and/or pharma industry
• Required in-depth knowledge of the sourcing process with strong negotiation skills 
• Excellent analytical skills to be able to analyze bids and data from a variety of data sources to help drive decision making
• Extensive experience in driving complex negotiations and a variety of deals/contracts. 
• 15-30% travel required (after COVID)
• Ability to prioritize projects and stakeholder needs
• Ability to communicate effectively cross-functionally. 
• A high-energy individual with a positive can-do attitude.
• Hard-working, self-motivated individual with excellent verbal and written communication skills
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Passion for food, sustainability, and our mission
• Strong attention to detail and process oriented 
• Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists

Impossible Foods Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. 
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