Innovation Sourcing Program Manager

about 3 years ago
Redwood City, CA, US... more
Redwood City, CA, US... more

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Impossible Foods Inc. is a company that develops plant-based substitutes for meat and dairy products. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, ...

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Job Description

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 based in our headquarters in Redwood City, CA (post Covid).

You Will

  • Identify and manage food technology and ingredient categories that are relevant to Impossible to support its future growth. 
  • Collaborate with R&D, Sourcing, Product Management, and other key teams to develop and implement strategic roadmaps with respect to ingredients and new food technology platforms. 
  • Develop strong working relationships with the principal stakeholders and acquire an intimate knowledge of the emerging food technologies and or platforms that will drive future product innovation. 
  • Proactively identify potential use cases and help manage build a pipeline of incoming and/or emerging technologies, and providers. 
  • Ability to synthesize information from all the search and evaluation efforts of new ingredients and food technology platforms, and propose appropriate actions and or a strategy roadmap to leadership and the Sourcing/Category Managers for decision-making 
  • Define and lead proof-of-concept projects and work with R&D on prototyping, validating and defining the commercial strategy of these emerging technologies
  • Build and manage relationships with technology and ingredient suppliers 
  • Understand industry and technology trends and challenges within the food biotech and life science space. 
  • Follow the outlined sourcing process to properly vet suppliers; set up NDAs and MTAs; identify cost drivers; and ultimately provide recommendations to the Sourcing/Category Managers and other teams on which ingredients and suppliers to pursue
  • Contribute to cost savings efforts to drive down the cost of goods, utilizing strong technical knowledge of new and emerging food technology trends. 
  • Understand and influence IF's business & food technology strategy and opportunities at an executive level. 
  • Develop business intelligence tools and reports for decision makers, management, investors and external communications.

You Have

  • A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Biology, Chemistry, Nutrition, Supply Chain, or related fields. Master’s degree preferred. 
  • Minimum of 4-5 years’ relevant experience in food, biotech, pharma industries, or academia
  • Required in-depth knowledge and experience in job and ability to work independently
  • Experience in working with R&D strategy, Life Sciences, Business Development. Sourcing experience is a plus. 
  • 10-15% travel required
  • Experience finding and evaluating a broad range of relevant and emerging food technology platforms and suppliers 
  • Ability to communicate effectively with both R&D professionals and also with people from the business and Sourcing teams, i.e., speak the technical language with R&D and then communicate it in a way that non-technical people will understand
  • A high energy individual with a positive can-do attitude.
  • Hard working, self-motivated individual with excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • Ability to deal with ambiguity, manage multiple priorities at once, and lead strategic projects and create new tools with minimal direction
  • Ability to prioritize projects and needs
  • In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
  • Comfortable getting stuff done in a complex, technical and fast paced environment.
  • Ability to build relationships with external stakeholders, e.g., ingredient suppliers
  • Eager to learn technical and complex business needs quickly
  • Creative problem solver who will leave no stone unturned
  • Ability to solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists.
  • 15-20% travel
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. 
Depending on your location, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) may regulate the way we manage the data of job applicants. Our full notice outlining how data will be processed as part of the application procedure for applicable locations is available here: https://impossiblefoods.com/careers/notice. By submitting your application, you are agreeing to our use and processing of your data as required.

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