Senior Sourcing Manager

🔥 15 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $130k - $150k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🛒 Procurement

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Vital Farms

201 - 500 employees

🍽️ Food & Beverage

🌾 Agriculture

🧘 Wellness

💰 $151.3M Post-IPO Equity on 2020-11

Food & Beverage • Agriculture • Wellness

Vital Farms is a Certified B Corporation that offers a range of ethically produced pasture-raised foods, including shell eggs, butter, hard-boiled eggs, ghee, and liquid whole eggs, distributed nationwide. Founded in 2007 on a single farm in Austin, Texas, Vital Farms has become the leading U. S. brand of pasture-raised eggs and butter by retail dollar sales. The company is committed to the humane treatment of farm animals and sustainable farming practices, focusing on the long-term benefits of all stakeholders involved.

📋 Description

• Serve as a strategic business partner to leaders across the organization • Identify and execute opportunities to reduce cost, improve supplier performance, mitigate risk, and enhance operational efficiency • Build trusted relationships with leaders across Operations, Marketing, IT, HR, Finance, and Shared Services • Understand business priorities and identify sourcing opportunities aligned with company goals • Challenge specifications, demand assumptions, and supplier selection decisions when appropriate • Develop category strategies for key indirect and operational spend areas • Analyze spend, supplier fragmentation, and market trends to identify savings opportunities • Build and maintain a prioritized sourcing pipeline based on enterprise value • Lead RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs for complex spend categories • Develop negotiation strategies grounded in market intelligence and cost drivers • Negotiate pricing, service levels, contract terms, and performance commitments • Drive measurable savings and value creation • Develop supplier performance scorecards and governance processes • Monitor supplier performance, risk, and compliance • Partner with suppliers to drive continuous improvement and innovation • Manage renewals and strategic supplier relationships • Lead cross-functional sourcing projects involving multiple stakeholders • Influence decisions without direct authority • Communicate tradeoffs clearly to leaders and build alignment • Drive execution through ambiguity and change

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, category management, procurement transformation, supplier management, or supply-chain-heavy commercial roles • Experience with complex indirect and operational spend categories • Proven success leading negotiations, evaluating supplier proposals, and delivering measurable cost savings and business value • Strong contract, commercial, and business acumen • Experience in manufacturing, food, CPG, agriculture, or supply-chain-heavy environments preferred • Ability to use spend data, analytics, and market insights to identify trends, develop business cases, quantify savings opportunities, and support commercial decisions • Ability to build should-cost and total-cost models, sourcing scorecards, and decision frameworks • Advanced Excel skills • Experience using Power BI, ERP, or procurement systems such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 • Ability to travel 20–30% or as needed for supplier visits, stakeholder meetings, site visits, and other business needs • Teamwork and collaboration orientation • Ability to understand others’ viewpoints and engage in honest conversations

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Paid parental leave • 401(k) retirement plan with 3% contribution from Day 1 • Free eggs • Friends and family discounts • Fun team SWAG • Professional development opportunities • Remote work environment • Competitive pay and benefits

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