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The Quality Group

Sports nutrition products through tech-enabled operations

Supply Chain Operations Manager - External Manufacturing

Supply Chain ManagementConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeHamburg, GermanyNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • A university degree in supply chain, business administration, or engineering, or equivalent professional experience.
  • More than 5 years of experience in supply chain, procurement, or external manufacturing.
  • Strong knowledge of SAP MM and Order-to-Invoice; SAP APO/IBP is an advantage.
  • Demonstrated success in supplier and capacity management and in Order-to-Invoice.
  • Strong leadership, communication, and stakeholder-management skills.
  • Fluent German and business-fluent English; strong German skills are required for close collaboration with Finance and end-to-end problem solving.
  • Experience in FMCG, food, nutrition, or dietary supplements.
  • Experience leading co-manufacturing networks.
  • Experience in transformation or process governance, including S&OP/IBP and GPO operating models.

Responsibilities

  • Lead, coach, and develop external planners and the order-processing team; set priorities, balance workloads, build team capabilities, and manage recruitment, onboarding, and performance.
  • Own availability and delivery performance for externally manufactured and traded goods across all brands.
  • Plan and control operations with key suppliers, ensuring demand is reliably translated into supply, capacity, and replenishment.
  • Manage the end-to-end process from purchase order to invoice in SAP, including orders, delivery, goods receipt, invoicing, and reconciliation with Finance.
  • Establish proactive capacity planning with key external manufacturers and own supplier availability, lead times, and risk management, driving mitigation actions.
  • Provide input into supplier selection and coordinate onboarding and ramp-up of innovations with strategic procurement.
  • Serve as the operational contact for strategic procurement, pass consolidated volumes and requirements to the contracting department, and coordinate commercial topics and escalations.
  • Ensure operational execution complies with contractually agreed terms.
  • Define and monitor KPIs for availability/service level, supplier OTIF, purchase-order cycle time, invoice accuracy, and capacity coverage; drive process standardization with GPOs, the transformation team, and the master data lead.
  • Own the quality of SAP processes and master-data management in external procurement, collaborating with planning, procurement, finance, quality, and logistics.

Desired Qualifications

  • Knowledge of SAP APO/IBP.

About the Company

The Quality Group

Sports nutrition products through tech-enabled operations

The Quality Group makes sports nutrition and healthy-eating products for customers focused on health and performance. Its products deliver targeted nutrition to support health and athletic goals, backed by a scalable supply chain and strict quality control. The company differentiates itself with an agile, pragmatic culture built on a Code of Conduct and strong ethical standards. Its goal is to provide high-quality nutrition and healthy options while growing responsibly and adapting to market needs.

Company size
501-1,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Elmshorn, Germany
Founded
2021

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