Senior Director, Co-Manufacturing Network Growth

Kinder's; Walnut Creek (CA); Hybrid; USD 235.000 - 255.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Paid time off

401k

Bonus / incentive eligibility

Equity grants

Health benefits

Parental leave

Zusammenfassung

Kinder’s is a growing flavor-focused food company seeking a hands-on Senior Director to design and lead the co-manufacturing partner network. You will shape the future-state manufacturing footprint, evaluate partners, and secure capacity commitments across brands and categories.

Leading across Operations, Planning, Product Development, Quality, Sourcing, Finance and Legal, you will turn growth plans into a resilient, cost-effective supply chain.

Qualifikationen

• Significant progressive experience in food or beverage manufacturing, co-manufacturing, supply chain strategy, strategic sourcing, or related field.
• Experience finding, qualifying, onboarding, and negotiating with contract manufacturing partners across multiple products or production technologies.
• Strong command of manufacturing capacity, production economics, commercialization, food safety and quality requirements, and operational risk.
• Ability to build credible business cases and evaluate total cost, capital needs, capacity commitments, service, and resilience.
• Experience leading negotiations and cross-functional decisions involving Operations, Quality, Product Development, Planning, Finance, Sourcing, and Legal.
• Strong relationship building skills
• Comfort building processes and teams in a fast-growing environment where requirements and priorities evolve.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience; advanced degree welcome but not required.

Aufgaben

• Set the Co-Man Network Strategy: develop multi-year roadmap across products, capabilities, capacity, economics, lead times, and risk.
• Lead Partner Search and Diligence: build search strategy and evaluate partners with cross-functional teams.
• Develop Partner Acceptance and Onboarding: define criteria and stage gates; ensure handoff docs.
• Build Capacity Plans and Secure Commitments: model capacity by category and partner; secure commitments.
• Build the Capability and Lead Across Kinder’s: create decision tools; coordinate cross-functional teams; present to leadership.

Kenntnisse

Supply chain strategy

Co-manufacturing

Negotiations

Cross-functional collaboration

Financial acumen

Relationship building

Change management

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Ausbildung

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent

Jobbeschreibung

Kinder’s is a growing flavor-focused food company seeking a hands-on Senior Director to design and lead the co-manufacturing partner network. You will shape the future-state manufacturing footprint, evaluate partners, and secure capacity commitments across brands and categories.

Leading across Operations, Planning, Product Development, Quality, Sourcing, Finance and Legal, you will turn growth plans into a resilient, cost-effective supply chain.