Senior Director, Co-Manufacturing Network Strategy (Hybrid)

Kinder's Premium Quality Seasonings & Sauces; Walnut Creek (CA); On-site; USD 235,000 - 255,000; Full time

Job summary

Kinder’s is seeking a hands-on Senior Director, Co-Man Network Development to design and lead its future co-manufacturing network. You will drive partner search, diligence, onboarding, and capacity planning across categories, ensuring cost, quality, and risk are managed as demand grows.

You will collaborate with Operations, Planning, Product Development, Quality, Sourcing, Finance, Legal, and Commercial teams to translate growth plans into a resilient, scalable manufacturing network.

Qualifications

• Significant progressive experience in food or beverage manufacturing, co-manufacturing, supply chain strategy, strategic sourcing, or a related field with direct responsibility for partner selection and network expansion.
• Demonstrated 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.

Responsibilities

• Set the Co-Man Network Strategy: develop a multi-year roadmap across products, capabilities, geographies, capacity, economics, lead times, and risk.
• Lead Partner Search and Diligence: build search strategy and evaluate candidate partners with cross-functional teams.
• Develop Partner Acceptance and Onboarding: define criteria and manage cross-functional onboarding for launches.
• Build Capacity Plans and Secure Commitments: model capacity by category and partner to support growth and manage utilization.
• Build the Capability and Lead Across Kinder’s: create tools and lead cross-functional teams to move partner decisions forward.

Skills

Strategic partner network development

Negotiation with contractmanufacturers

Cross-functional leadership

Supply chain strategy

Relationship building

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent relevant experience

Job description

Kinder’s is seeking a hands-on Senior Director, Co-Man Network Development to design and lead its future co-manufacturing network. You will drive partner search, diligence, onboarding, and capacity planning across categories, ensuring cost, quality, and risk are managed as demand grows.

You will collaborate with Operations, Planning, Product Development, Quality, Sourcing, Finance, Legal, and Commercial teams to translate growth plans into a resilient, scalable manufacturing network.