US Beverage Supply Chain & Production Lead

Something & Nothing; Middlebury, Montgomeryville (VT, Montgomery County); Remote; USD 85,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

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Remote-based with travel

Medical insurance

401(k) with company match

25 days annual leave

Mileage & allowances

All the soda you can drink

Job summary

Something & Nothing seeks a hands-on Supply Chain Leader to own the US operations from production through logistics, warehousing, and compliance. The role is remote-based with periodic travel to Middlebury, VT for production runs and to Montgomeryville, PA for warehouse activities.

You will manage co-packed production, liaise with co-packers and suppliers, and drive S&OP, KPI reporting, and budget ownership while leveraging AI tools to scale coverage across the region.

Qualifications

• Experience running co-packed or contract manufactured production in food or beverage, including being on site for runs.
• Experience managing 3PL warehousing and US logistics partners.
• Experience owning inventory accuracy across more than one warehouse location.
• Experience in building (and re-building) production schedules in line with demand fluctuations.
• Working knowledge of US customs and import processes.
• Familiarity with US food and beverage labelling, Prop 65 and state packaging law, or the appetite to own it with external specialist support.
• Comfortable owning a region single-handedly in a business where people hold broad responsibilities.
• Able to get to Middlebury, Vermont for six to eight production runs a year. Northeast US is an advantage but not a requirement.
• Preferably to be currently or previously employed in a beverage or food company

Responsibilities

• Own the relationship with Green Mountain Beverages, our co-packer in Vermont.
• Attend all or most US production runs on site. We are currently planning six to eight US runs a year.
• Build US production schedules from the demand forecast owned by our CFO, to group method and standards.
• Own yield, waste, run performance and the product quality standards held at our co-packer, and resolve issues as they arise.
• Source all US non-ingredient materials, buying against the group deals negotiated by our Global Sourcing lead.
• Own US supplier lead times, MOQs and purchase orders in Unleashed.
• Own a component readiness view against every US production date and report it at fortnightly S&OP.
• Feed US labelling and regulatory requirements to our designers and creative co-founder, who own master artwork.
• Own US customs and import documentation, including inbound chilled ingredients from our UK supplier.
• Own US compliance and regulatory processes, including federal labelling requirements, Prop 65 and state packaging and recycling laws.
• Execute the product improvement plan in the US and feed US findings into the global plan.
• Joint lead on reviewing our ingredient supplier and building the case for expanding or moving to a global supplier.
• Assess and, when volume triggers it, appoint a second US co-packer.
• Assess and, when volume warrants, add US warehousing capacity in other regions.
• Find cost efficiencies across the US supply base without impacting quality.

Skills

Co-packed production

US logistics management

Inventory management

Production scheduling

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Unleashed

Job description

Something & Nothing seeks a hands-on Supply Chain Leader to own the US operations from production through logistics, warehousing, and compliance. The role is remote-based with periodic travel to Middlebury, VT for production runs and to Montgomeryville, PA for warehouse activities.

You will manage co-packed production, liaise with co-packers and suppliers, and drive S&OP, KPI reporting, and budget ownership while leveraging AI tools to scale coverage across the region.