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AlphaPet Ventures GmbH

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201 - 500 employees

🍽️ Food & Beverage

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Food & Beverage • Logistics • Marketing

AlphaPet Ventures GmbH is a leading digital brand platform for premium pet food in Europe. The company focuses on establishing healthy pet nutrition in the mainstream through a multi-channel distribution strategy. It has a balanced approach with approximately 50% direct-to-consumer (D2C) sales and 50% through business-to-business (B2B) partnerships. With over 10 years of expertise in digital brand building, AlphaPet carries a portfolio of premium brands and employs a scalable platform for sustainable growth. The company successfully applies a Buy & Build strategy to expand its market presence.

📋 Description

• Independent management of designated suppliers and product categories • Develop and manage supplier scorecards for on-time delivery, quality and cost • Sustainable supplier development • Conduct structured tenders and lead negotiations and renegotiations of terms • Actively mitigate price increases and apply data-driven price pressure • Build and maintain spend transparency • Create benchmarks, price analyses and forecasting at the product-category level • Reporting and KPI management to the VP and COO • Perform LLM-supported market research and contract review • Automate recurring sourcing workflows • Help shape modern, data-driven sourcing methods • Systematically further develop strategic procurement

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years' experience in strategic procurement, ideally in FMCG / petfood / food • Independent responsibility for tenders and negotiations with volumes in the double-digit million euro range • Experience with data-driven sourcing methods and market intelligence • Confidence in managing critical suppliers • Affinity for AI and a data-driven mindset • Fluent use of modern data and AI tools • Hands-on, assertive and results-oriented • Fluent German and English (negotiation-level) • Scale-up or private equity-backed experience (nice-to-have) • Petfood-specific raw material and packaging knowledge (nice-to-have) • Experience building supplier scorecard systems (nice-to-have) • Experience with AI-supported sourcing workflows such as contract review, tender creation and negotiation preparation (nice-to-have) • Experience working in remote-first teams (nice-to-have) • Application including cover letter, résumé, earliest possible start date and salary expectations

🏖️ Benefits

• Responsible, exciting and varied tasks with plenty of scope to shape things • Flat hierarchies and an open, relaxed working atmosphere • Flexible working hours based on a trust-based working time model • Home-office options including a contribution to home-office equipment costs • Possibility to work from abroad for several months • 28 days' vacation entitlement • Option to take up to 20 days unpaid leave as well as special leave • Internal and external development opportunities • Employee discounts for employees and their pets • Regular team, company and family & friends events • Social area with table football and Nintendo Switch • High-quality, fully equipped office kitchen • Free drinks, fresh fruit, snacks and sweets • Subsidized EGYM Wellpass membership • Access to modern AI tools • Multiple office dogs at the locations