Sourcing Manager

If you take efficient growth and food seriously, but not yourself (and you enjoy a good pun), then we might have a job for you! Join our growing Operations team at Deep Indian Kitchen as a Sourcing Manager!
Deep Indian Kitchen

Deep Indian Kitchen's parent company, Deep Foods, was founded by the Amin family matriarch, Bhagwati Amin, and is now owned and operated by three generations of the Amin family. In late 2019, Deep Foods launched the Deep Indian Kitchen brand, which includes a line of frozen foods and four NYC / NJ-based Fast Casual Restaurants, to elevate and expand access to Indian food in mainstream America. It has become one of the fastest-growing frozen food brands in the U.S. and the #1 Indian brand on social media with its delicious, authentic, always-made-from-scratch frozen meals and appetizers.

Deep Foods is the leader in Indian cuisine in North America with operations in the US, Canada, India and Australia, and makes frozen meals, breads and appetizers as well as snacks, beverages, dairy and pantry essentials. Since 1977, we have had one simple purpose: to share all of India through made-from-scratch, authentically crafted food and drinks. As a family-owned-and-operated company, it's our mission that our food not only taste good but also do good. That's why every purchase of our products benefits the Deepkiran Foundation, which helps provide access to education for underprivileged children in rural India.
What You Will Do

We are looking for a Sourcing Manager to join our Supply Chain Operations team and lead our Sourcing and Procurement function for Deep Indian Kitchen brands. In this newly created role, responsibilities will include procuring all unique ingredients and packaging materials utilizing procurement principles of market research, supplier vetting and negotiations and financial analysis. This person will also create supplier and material strategies and be the primary contact between various cross-functional teams related to procurement.
Responsibilities:

• Responsible for the end-to-end Procurement strategy, including Supplier, Material, and Operational improvements including but not limited to unique raw materials, packaging materials and indirect services.
• Oversee the procurement processes ensuring best practices are followed relative to purchasing controls, quality, regulatory, cost, and inventory management.
• Conduct market research and analysis for benchmarking current costs and projecting trends.
• Conduct frequent RFPs and manage the sourcing/onboarding of new suppliers.
• Manage long-term, strategic supplier relationships.
• Develop vendor partnerships and negotiate new contracts, renewals, pricing, NDA's, amendments, etc. with inputs from Production and Supply Chain teams.
• Create Material Cost Models on key materials and track commodity indexes.
• Continuously improve vendor performance through management KPIs.
• Responsible for forecasting pricing and creating annual budgets.
• Develop supply resilience plan through VMI, alternate approved suppliers, etc.
• Develop, monitor, and refine procurement KPI's and metrics.
• Collaborate with the parent company's procurement team to optimize sourcing practices.

Who You Are

You are excited by the opportunity to build, lead and develop the sourcing function for Deep Indian Kitchen. You have experience creating and executing supplier strategies and finding savings while maintaining or exceeding quality standards. Comfortable working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, our ideal candidate will have tenacity, the ability to lead change and a passion for food!
Qualifications:

• BA/BS degree required in supply chain management, business, or related fields.
• 5+ years of experience in a CPG supply chain procurement and sourcing role or related position, preferably with emerging brand experience.
• Proven track record with Vendor Management, Cost Models, and Operational Organization.
• Experience in project management, vendor relations, managing expectations of internal stakeholders.
• Ability to work with minimal supervision as a self-starter.
• Exceptional people leadership, collaboration, communication, and management skills across all levels of the organization.
• Willingness to challenge the status quo and a desire to network and/or research to find new solutions and learn best practices.
• Ability to prepare and present information and recommendations.
• Proficiency in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data from multiple sources including ERPs, Microsoft office suite, Google Suite etc.
• Ability to work a fixed hybrid schedule at our headquarters in Union, NJ - Tues/Wed/Thurs in office 9am - 5:30pm.

Benefits

Competitive salary, with bonus + LTI.
Unlimited PTO
401K match