Head of Supply Chain
Atomic
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Florida • United States
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Salary
💰 $175,000 - $195,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead and manage key co-manufacturing partnerships, ensuring performance across quality, service, cost, and delivery.
- Own the negotiation, execution, and annual refresh of contracts, pricing, and service agreements.
- Build strong operational relationships with co-man partners and drive continuous improvement.
- Serve as the primary escalation point for production issues, deviations, or quality concerns.
- Develop and expand the external manufacturing network to support innovation, scale, redundancy, and capacity needs.
- Identify, evaluate, and onboard new co-man partners aligned with R&D requirements and growth projections.
- Support the building of long-term capacity planning models to support business expansion.
- Drive and improve raw material procurement strategies to improve cost, quality, supply chain stability.
- Oversee production planning in partnership with the Sr. Manager, Supply Chain, ensuring accurate forecasts and inventory alignment.
- Monitor partner performance metrics (OTIF, yield, scrap, efficiency, etc.).
- Collaborate with demand planning, finance, and operations to build integrated operating plans.
- Partner with Quality to ensure external manufacturers meet food safety, regulatory, and audit requirements.
- Ensure co-man partners maintain consistent product quality and documentation.
- Lead corrective action processes when quality deviations occur.
- Partner with R&D for feasibility, scale-up, trials, and commercialization of new products.
- Work with Finance on costing, budgeting, and COGS targets.
- Collaborate with Marketing on launch readiness.
Requirements
- 7+ years of supply chain, external manufacturing, operations, or production experience (CPG or food manufacturing is a must have).
- Proven success managing external / co-manufacturing and supplier relationships.
- Experience in contract negotiation, costing, quality oversight, and production planning.
- Strong understanding of supply chain systems, demand/supply planning, and COGS drivers.
- Ability to operate strategically while staying close to execution in a scaling environment.
- Excellent communication, project management, and problem-solving skills.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with a drive for continuous improvement.
Benefits
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Hard Skills & Tools
supply chain managementcontract negotiationproduction planningcostingquality oversightraw material procurementcapacity planningperformance metricsfood safety complianceaudit requirements
Soft Skills
communicationproject managementproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingentrepreneurial mindsetrelationship managementcontinuous improvementcollaborationleadershipadaptability