Senior Strategic Sourcing Manager (Remote)

Vital Farms - Current Crew Members; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision benefits

401(k) + 3% match

Free eggs and family discounts

Professional development opportunities

Team swag

Job summary

Vital Farms - Current Crew Members is seeking a Sr. Sourcing Manager to partner with leaders across Operations, Marketing, IT, HR, Finance, and Shared Services. You will lead strategic sourcing, category strategy, and complex negotiations to reduce cost and improve supplier performance.

The role emphasizes supplier governance, risk management, and measurable savings, while fostering an inclusive, high-impact procurement culture across the organization.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, category management, procurement transformation, supplier management, or supply-chain-heavy commercial roles.
• Proven success leading negotiations, evaluating supplier proposals, and delivering measurable cost savings and business value.
• Strong ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders with sound contract, commercial, and business acumen.
• Experience in manufacturing, food, CPG, agriculture, or supply-chain-heavy environments preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to use spend data, analytics, and market insights to identify trends, develop business cases, quantify savings opportunities, and support commercial decisions.
• Ability to build should-cost and total-cost models, sourcing scorecards, and decision frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Build trusted relationships with leaders across Operations, Marketing, IT, HR, Finance, and Shared Services.
• Understand business priorities and proactively identify sourcing opportunities aligned with company goals.
• Serve as a thought partner, not merely a purchasing function.
• Lead RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs for complex spend categories.
• Develop negotiation strategies grounded in market intelligence and cost drivers.
• Negotiate pricing, service levels, contract terms, and performance commitments.
• Drive measurable savings and value creation.
• Develop supplier performance scorecards and governance processes.
• Monitor supplier performance, risk, and compliance.
• Partner with suppliers to drive continuous improvement and innovation.
• Manage renewals and strategic supplier relationships.
• Lead cross-functional sourcing projects involving multiple stakeholders.
• Influence decisions without direct authority.
• Communicate tradeoffs clearly to leaders and build alignment.
• Drive execution through ambiguity and change.

Skills

Strategic sourcing

Category management

Procurement transformation

Supplier management

Cross-functional leadership

Negotiation

Stakeholder management

Spend analytics

Cost savings

Decision frameworks

Tools

Power BI

Excel

ERP

Microsoft Dynamics 365

Job description

Vital Farms - Current Crew Members is seeking a Sr. Sourcing Manager to partner with leaders across Operations, Marketing, IT, HR, Finance, and Shared Services. You will lead strategic sourcing, category strategy, and complex negotiations to reduce cost and improve supplier performance.

The role emphasizes supplier governance, risk management, and measurable savings, while fostering an inclusive, high-impact procurement culture across the organization.