Operations Manager MatchaBar
- Date Posted October 05, 2018
- Location Brooklyn, NY
- Category Production
- Job type Full-Time
At MatchaBar you will be joining a fast-growing company and will have the opportunity to work side-by-side with our founders and directors across all departments. You'll get a window into every element of startup culture and be at the forefront of disrupting the growing space of natural energy! In particular, you'll focus on the following buckets: fulfilling orders, forecasting demand, sourcing, quality assurance, product development, and mastering your COGs!
Key Responsibilities
-Purchasing ingredients and packaging supplies based on production needs
-Creating ingredient purchasing forecasts based on sales forecast
-Negotiating contracts and pricing with vendors
-Ingredient audits, and mock-recall
-Manage contract documentation
-Traveling to co-packing facilities for production runs
-Monitor contract expiration dates and renegotiate when needed.
-Managing relationships within the company and with external parties, such as vendors and distributors
-Proactively address vendor, product, and supply chain problems ensuring that the right products are in the right locations at the right times in the right quality and quantity and at the right price.
-Develop and sustain relationships with our freight and warehousing partners.
-Coordinate logistics for wholesale orders
-Price analysis and comparison of ingredients and packaging material
-Collect and maintain specification sheets and COAs for all ingredients and production runs
-Work closely with accounting teams to track and report COGS on a run by run basis.
-Coordinate supplier contract negotiation and supplier onboarding for innovation projects
-Onboard new items and suppliers by gathering the final product and price information and finalizing and managing launch timelines
Job Requirements
-Bachelor’s Degree
-2+ years of experience in F & B operations and/or supply chain management
-Prior experience managing vendors strongly preferred
-Prior experience in beverage operations preferred
-Thorough understanding of material specifications data
-Proficiency in MS Office and Google-suite tools, Enterprise w/Inventory
Management hands-on experience
-Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
-Ability to produce and present clear status reports in a tactful and candid
manner
-Ability to multitask
-Travel is required Compensation this position is : salaried, varies DOE, $60,000.00 - $80,000.00 Application instructions