Senior R&D Procurement Specialist
Grüns
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $80,000 - $100,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Proactively identify ingredients (botanicals, minerals, vitamins, fibers, functional actives, flavors, excipients) with a focus on clinically supported, label-friendly, and gummy-compatible options.
- Build and maintain a competitive inventory of ingredients, capturing efficacy claims, standardization markers, and differentiation potential.
- Critically assess clinical and preclinical data for candidate ingredients, evaluating study design, endpoints, dosage, and reliability.
- Summarize findings in clear, decision-ready briefs for Product and Brand to support innovation and claims.
- Lead supplier due diligence, including quality questionnaires, certifications (GFSI), audit coordination, CoA review, and method validation (e.g., HPLC, ICP-MS).
- Review contaminant, micro, and allergen specs, and negotiate MOQ, lead times, and sample delivery for pilot and scale-up trials.
- Partner with R&D to maintain a living ingredient portfolio considering cost, stability, sensory impact, and manufacturability.
- Support formulation timelines through proactive communication and data organization.
- Build supply resiliency through multi-tier sourcing and vendor diversification.
- Collaborate with QA to ensure ingredient qualification, traceability, and acceptance criteria are met.
- Work with R&D on trials and V2 improvements, Ops on PO timing and inventory planning, and Brand on credible ingredient storytelling.
- Support CX with ingredient FAQs and claims accuracy.
Requirements
- 2-4 years of experience in ingredient sourcing, procurement, or ingredient science within CPG, nutraceuticals, or food-tech (gummy experience a plus)
- Hands-on experience with supplier qualification, audits, and sustainability questionnaires, and experience negotiating commercial terms
- A Bachelor’s degree in Food Science, Nutrition, Chemistry, Biology, or a related field
- Strong understanding of clinical research methods (RCTs, meta-analyses, confidence intervals, power, bias, validity)
- Fluency in quality and analytical fundamentals - CoA review, potency/purity testing, stability, and shelf-life considerations
- Excellent communication skills - able to translate scientific and technical detail into actionable insights for diverse teams.
Benefits
- competitive equity packages
- comprehensive set of benefits designed to support your well-being, growth, and balance
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
ingredient sourcingsupplier qualificationclinical research methodsCoA reviewpotency testingpurity testingstability testingshelf-life considerationsHPLCICP-MS
Soft skills
communication skillscollaborationcritical assessmentdata organizationproactive communicationnegotiationdecision-makinginnovation supportstorytellingproblem-solving