- Oficina en Newtonville
Description
The Strategic Sourcing Buyer supports the Strategic Sourcing team by helping execute sourcing initiatives, maintaining supplier and market data, coordinating procurement activities, and supporting cross-functional projects across Operations, Innovation, Quality, Manufacturing, Finance, and Planning.
This is an excellent opportunity for an individual looking to build their career within supply chain by gaining a wide array of hands-on experience at a fast growing company!
What You'll Do
Procurement & Sourcing Support
- Support sourcing projects across ingredients, packaging, and selected indirect spend categories.
- Assist with supplier qualification and onboarding activities for new ingredients and suppliers.
- Coordinate requests for proposals (RFPs), supplier documentation, pricing updates, and contract administration.
- Maintain supplier records, pricing files, contracts, and procurement documentation.
- Assist in preparing sourcing recommendations and business cases for leadership.
Supplier & Commercial Support
- Build productive relationships with suppliers through day-to-day communication and follow-up.
- Coordinate supplier samples, documentation, certifications, and commercial information.
- Track supplier performance metrics, pricing changes, and service levels.
- Support supplier business reviews and maintain action item tracking.
- Monitor commodity and ingredient market trends and summarize findings for the sourcing team.
Innovation & Cross-Functional Support
- Partner with Innovation, Quality, Manufacturing, and Planning to help commercialize new ingredients and suppliers.
- Coordinate ingredient evaluations, tasting samples, and commercialization milestones.
- Support reformulations, packaging changes, and new product launches.
- Maintain inventory of innovation ingredients and supplier samples for development work.
- Assist with supplier visits, facility audits, and sustainability initiatives as needed.
Analytics & Process Improvement
- Prepare spend analyses, pricing comparisons, and sourcing reports.
- Maintain procurement dashboards and reporting tools.
- Identify opportunities to improve sourcing processes, documentation, and data quality.
- Help ensure procurement documentation remains organized, accurate, and audit-ready.
- Support special projects as the procurement organization continues to grow.
Requirements
Who You Are
- Curious, analytical, and eager to learn.
- Highly organized with exceptional attention to detail.
- Comfortable working with data while also building strong relationships.
- Able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Collaborative and proactive, with strong follow-through.
- Interested in food, beverages, agriculture, sustainability, and supply chain.
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, Operations, Food Science, or a related field.
- 0–2+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, supply chain, or a related field. Recent college graduates are encouraged to apply but should have relevant internship or co-op experience in one or more of these areas.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel.
- Experience working with ERP systems is preferred (NetSuite is a plus).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Strong organizational and project coordination skills.
- Ability to travel up to 15–20% as needed.
- Ability to work four days per week from Spindrift's Newton, MA headquarters.
Benefits
Compensation & Benefits
The salary range for this position is $70,000 to $90,000. The final salary will be determined based on the selected candidate’s relevant experience, skills, and qualifications. In addition, we offer the following compensation and benefits:
- Short-term incentive opportunity
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Company-paid life insurance, and a 401(k) retirement savings plan with a company match
- Monthly cell phone allowance
- Annual allowances for personal use of Spindrift product, health and wellness, professional development, and social justice education
- Voluntary benefits including, but not limited to, additional life insurance, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance.
- Paid parental leave, vacation, sick, personal, bereavement, community service, and holiday time
