Contract Manufacturing Leader - Food & CPG Ops

Blue Diamond Growers; United States; Vor Ort; USD 114.000 - 148.000; Vollzeit

Zusammenfassung

Blue Diamond Growers is seeking a Manager, Contract Manufacturing to oversee an external manufacturing portfolio. You will translate strategy into operating plans, align partner priorities, and measure performance across safety, quality, service, and cost.

In this role you will coordinate qualification, onboarding, and transfers, manage day‑to‑day partner relationships, and drive continuous improvement with Lean/Six Sigma tools. Travel up to 50% is expected.

Qualifikationen

• Bachelor's degree in supply chain, business, finance, engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 7 years of progressive experience in contract manufacturing, operations, or related areas.
• Experience supervising contract manufacturers and leading cross‑functional teams.
• Experience with commercialization, transfers, cost savings, and continuity projects.

Aufgaben

• Execute contract manufacturing plans aligning capacity, risks, and priorities with business strategies.
• Coordinate qualification, onboarding, and stabilization of new contract manufacturers and lines.
• Manage day‑to‑day relationships with contract manufacturers and drive reviews and accountability.
• Maintain partner scorecards and KPIs for safety, quality, delivery, cost, and yield.
• Lead external partner performance reviews and coordinate corrective actions to sustain improvements.
• Support sourcing, contract negotiations, SLAs, change control, and compliance.
• Analyze tolling and cost arrangements; provide should‑cost and TCO recommendations.
• Oversee manufacturing transfers from planning to post‑launch stabilization.
• Collaborate with Planning, Inventory, Logistics, and partner sites on schedules and availability.
• Provide capacity and risk inputs to S/OP and continuity processes; manage alternate sources.
• Track conversion costs, savings, and productivity initiatives with Finance.
• Resolve supply, quality, and scheduling issues with data‑driven actions.

Kenntnisse

Contract manufacturing

Project management

Negotiation

Analytical

Leadership

Ausbildung

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SAP

Jobbeschreibung

Blue Diamond Growers is seeking a Manager, Contract Manufacturing to oversee an external manufacturing portfolio. You will translate strategy into operating plans, align partner priorities, and measure performance across safety, quality, service, and cost.

In this role you will coordinate qualification, onboarding, and transfers, manage day‑to‑day partner relationships, and drive continuous improvement with Lean/Six Sigma tools. Travel up to 50% is expected.