Chief Operating Officer - Scale Supply Chain & Growth

Coinscapture; Miami, Northern (FL, KY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 290,000; Full time

Job summary

Golden Child, a Miami-based startup redefining pet nutrition, seeks a COO to build and scale the operating engine from sourcing and manufacturing to inventory, fulfillment, and delivery. You will own supplier networks, cost structure, and the systems required to elevate Golden Child from an early-stage DTC business to a national omnichannel brand.

You will report to the CEO and partner with Culinary, Veterinary Nutrition, Product, Finance, and Growth teams to drive growth while maintaining

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressively senior operations, supply chain, manufacturing, or related experience.
• Experience scaling a high-growth consumer business, ideally in food, beverage, supplements, or another operationally complex CPG category.
• Deep experience with manufacturing partners, supplier negotiations, sourcing, production planning, inventory, and logistics.
• Strong command of COGS, gross margin, and unit economics, with a track record of materially improving them.
• Experience building operational systems and processes during periods of rapid growth.
• Experience evaluating and/or executing in-house manufacturing or vertical integration is a plus.
• Strong analytical and systems-thinking capabilities.
• Comfortable moving between executive-level strategy and hands-on problem solving.
• High standards for product quality and customer experience.
• Entrepreneurial, resourceful, and energized by building

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end supply chain, including sourcing, supplier relationships, co-manufacturing, planning, inventory, cold-chain logistics, fulfillment, and delivery.
• Improve gross margin through operational levers across sourcing, packaging, manufacturing, freight, and terms.
• Build manufacturing and operational infrastructure to support significant growth.
• Manage relationships with co-manufacturing partners and evaluate in-house capabilities vs outsourcing.
• Translate demand forecasts into production and inventory plans balancing availability, freshness, and working capital.
• Collaborate with Culinary, Veterinary Nutrition, R&D, and Product to bring products from concept to production.
• Establish quality and food-safety systems across the supply chain.
• Develop and implement systems that enable scale and real-time supply-chain visibility.

Skills

Supply chain management

Operations leadership

Vendor negotiations

Margin improvement

Systems thinking

Hands-on problem solving

Entrepreneurial mindset

Analytics

Job description

Golden Child, a Miami-based startup redefining pet nutrition, seeks a COO to build and scale the operating engine from sourcing and manufacturing to inventory, fulfillment, and delivery. You will own supplier networks, cost structure, and the systems required to elevate Golden Child from an early-stage DTC business to a national omnichannel brand.

You will report to the CEO and partner with Culinary, Veterinary Nutrition, Product, Finance, and Growth teams to drive growth while maintaining