Director, Procurement and Sustainable Sourcing
Company: sweetgreen
Location: Los Angeles
Posted on: April 28, 2024
Job Description:
As the Director of Procurement & Sustainable Sourcing, you will
lead a mission driven procurement team, coach your team through
rapid growth, and do this in the face of headwinds in a fast-paced
and ambiguous environment. Your leadership chops should include the
ability to be a long-term systems thinker, a solid negotiator, a
superb project and process manager, and an inspiring leader who can
hold all parties accountable to the desired outcomes. Experience
owning a vast network of supply partners and commercialized
foodservice solutions is a huge plus.
The Director of Procurement & Sustainable Sourcing has five key
performance objectives:
- Build a scalable, new approach to sourcing our delicious,
healthy, sustainable and transparent food
- Champion the "Five Rights" of Supply Chain Optimization
- Improve our ingredient quality and Food & Grower Ethos metrics
by upholding our "Win, Win, Win" Core Value
- Negotiate and enhance our national supplier contracts as we
continue to scale
- Manage the food cost sourcing strategy to achieve the budgeted
COGS How to Build our Supply Network
Build a scalable, new approach to sourcing our delicious, healthy,
sustainable and transparent food
- Build a long-term ingredient sourcing model, including the
commercialization strategy, to scale the production of strategic
ingredients
- Create a cost-benefit analysis to support short, medium, and
long-term sourcing and commercialization strategies
- Assign the appropriate resources (people, processes, systems)
to support a commercialized supply chain, including differentiating
ingredients sourced from value chain versus value-add
suppliers
- Lead the cross-functional collaboration with Food
Safety/Quality Assurance and Operation Services teams Champion the
"Five Rights" of Supply Chain Optimization
- Product: revolutionize how sweetgreen sources and creates its
product as we grow rapidly in size and enter new markets
- Quality: confirm that the product meets the specifications
provided by the Food and Operation teams. Support any food safety
risk assessments, vendor standards, or recalls
- On-Time Delivery: monitor inbound logistics to the first
receiver to optimize inventory and supply
- Quantity: coordinate Supply Planning's forecast with key
suppliers
- Price: establish and manage all pricing contracts in a
systematic manner Improve our ingredient quality and Food & Grower
Ethos metrics by upholding our "Win, Win, Win" Core Value
- Assess new producers using our internal Food Ethos rating
system's pillars: healthy, sustainable, and transparent
- Enhance sweetgreen's sustainability and ethos goals and then
achieve those goals, even as we scale
- Expand the reach and capacity of our internal vendor assessment
tools
- Manage our product innovation pipeline from ideation to the
initial rollout stages Negotiate and enhance our national supplier
contracts as we continue to scale
- Manage our tech systems used to house, monitor, and update our
regional and national contracts
- Build supplier resiliency for all critical regional and
national items
- Work closely with the Value Chain team to enhance our local and
sustainable offerings
- Fight for national and regional producers that you believe in!
Manage the food cost sourcing strategy to achieve the budgeted COGS
- Carefully balance the improvement of our ingredient quality and
Food Ethos with achieving our budgeted COGS
- Unbundle the components of the contracted landed costs to
improve previously undiscovered inefficiencies
- Leverage our growth and buying power where appropriate
- Integrate inbound logistics solutions where needed to create
faster, more efficient and cost effective freight options for
sweetgreen nationally Desired Traits
- Uphold a commitment to building a more sustainable food
system
- Champion a team first attitude ahead of individual
accolades
- Value feedback of all types in an effort to evolve
- Demonstrate resilience by leaning into crises while applying
the appropriate pressure in the right places in order to get the
necessary outcome
- Hold proficient time management, task management, and project
prioritization skills
- Lead by example with a continuous passion for learning
- Known for honesty, integrity, self-awareness, and a solid work
ethic
- Analytical mindset for value chain model planning
- Comfortable compiling, interpreting, and presenting the
financial components of strategic sourcing Desired Experience
- Have 7-10 years experience in Procurement, Food Systems, Supply
Chain Management and Sustainability
- Familiarity and experience working with a broad array of
producers and distributors within the foodservice arena
- Bachelor's or Master's degree with technical background in
Business, Environmental Health, Food Science, Agriculture, or
Supply Chain related course of study
- Familiarity with food-related certifications and the
requirements for a grower, producer, or distributor to achieve
various certifications What you'll get:
- Highly competitive pay + bonus plan
- Three different medical plans to suit your and your family's
needs
- Dental and Vision insurance
- Flexible PTO plan
- 401k program
- Employee HSA and FSA
- Complimentary greens
- An opportunity to make a real impact on the people around you,
both by growing them and by connecting them to real food
- To live the sweetlife and celebrate your passion + purpose
- A collaborative team of people who live our core values and
have your back
- A clear career path with opportunities for development, both
personally and professionally
- Free sweetgreen swag
Come join the sweetlife!
About sweetgreen
sweetgreen is on a mission to build healthier communities by
connecting people to real food. We passionately believe that real
food should be convenient and accessible to everyone. Every day in
each sweetgreen, our 3,500 team members make food from scratch,
using fresh ingredients and produce delivered that morning. And in
our local communities, we're committed to leaving people better
than we found them. We're in the business of feeding people, and
we're out to change what that means.
sweetgreen provides equal opportunities for everyone that works for
us and everyone that applies to join our team, without regard to
sex or gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, race,
religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy,
physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic
information, marital status, sexual orientation, any service, past,
present, or future, in the uniformed services of the United States
(military or veteran status), or any other consideration protected
by federal, state, or local law.
sweetgreen participates in the federal government's E-Verify
program to determine employment eligibility. To learn more about
the E-Verify program, please click here.
Salary range for this role:
Starting salary range based on experience
$146,000-$192,000 USD
sweetgreen provides equal opportunities for everyone that works for
us and everyone that applies to join our team, without regard to
sex or gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, race,
religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy,
physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic
information, marital status, sexual orientation, any service, past,
present, or future, in the uniformed services of the United States
(military or veteran status), or any other consideration protected
by federal, state, or local law.
California residents: Review our applicant privacy notice HERE.
sweetgreen participates in the federal government's E-Verify
program to determine employment eligibility. To learn more about
the E-Verify program, please click here.
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