Strategic Ingredient Sourcing Analyst

CookUnity; Argentina; Hybrid; ARS 90,873,000 - 136,310,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Get paid in USD

Hybrid work

Vacation 15 days

Argentinean holidays

Healthcare stipend

Sabbatical after 5 years

Family leave

Compassionate leave

English coach

Job summary

CookUnity is seeking an Ingredient Sourcing Analyst to align culinary needs with practical sourcing decisions. You will evaluate ingredient options, lead sourcing projects, coordinate testing and rollout, and help ensure high-quality, cost-effective ingredients are available when needed.

You will partner with category leads on sourcing projects, manage RFPs end-to-end, and contribute to supplier strategies across multiple categories.

Qualifications

• Degree in Supply Chain, Business, or related field.
• Experience or strong interest in ingredient sourcing, procurement, quality, or food industry operations.
• Solid understanding of food ingredients specifications and food standards compliance.
• Advanced English level (written and spoken).
• Excellent communication, collaboration and negotiation skills with cross-functional teams and external suppliers.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain secondary-sourcing coverage for assigned ingredients, validating substitutions, supplier availability, on-hand quantities, and lead times.
• Contribute to category and supplier strategy through priority sourcing projects, RFP processes, supplier identification, pricing, contracting, and rollout.
• Lead assigned RFPs end-to-end and support cross-category projects from industry analysis and sample coordination through testing, recommendation, and implementation.
• Develop supplier strategies for ingredients with quality concerns, inconsistent specifications, or limited supplier coverage to improve product quality and supply continuity.
• Coordinate bench samples and market-level pilots with Culinary and stakeholders; document results and recommendations before rollout.
• Establish approved ingredient and vendor setup across systems, ensuring accurate information and clear handoffs.
• Establish a dependable forecast cadence with suppliers and distribution partners; monitor on-hand quantities and lead times.
• Respond to new-ingredient and meal-related requests, communicate status, and route work through intake and stage-gate processes.
• Manage credit-memo resolution and support workflow automation and handoff to ISC or operations.
• Improve sourcing processes, handoffs, and workflows by documenting learnings and standardizing repeatable processes.

Skills

Ingredient sourcing

Procurement

Analytical skills

Advanced English

Cross-functional collaboration

Communication skills

Organized

Education

Degree in Supply Chain or related field

Tools

Monday.com

Job description

CookUnity is seeking an Ingredient Sourcing Analyst to align culinary needs with practical sourcing decisions. You will evaluate ingredient options, lead sourcing projects, coordinate testing and rollout, and help ensure high-quality, cost-effective ingredients are available when needed.

You will partner with category leads on sourcing projects, manage RFPs end-to-end, and contribute to supplier strategies across multiple categories.