About Daily Harvest 

At Daily Harvest we take care of food, so food can take care of you. We’re committed to helping you nourish your body while taking care of the planet. How? By making it easy to eat more real, unrefined and sustainably sourced fruits and vegetables every day.  Our team is collaborative, driven, and future-thinking.  We’re constantly learning, experimenting, and iterating, and celebrate failure just as much as success. We take risks, try new things, and we get things done. We love adaptogens and cruciferous vegetables but never say no to cake. Everything we do, we do in the service of our community.

Position Overview

Daily Harvest is looking for a Director, Supply Chain Planning to join our Innovation + Operations Team. The Innovation + Operations team operationalizes the Daily Harvest mission from conception to delivery. We ideate and bring our food to life. We source ingredients and build supply chains, we create sustainable packaging solutions, ensure food safety, and instill production capabilities that benefit our customers, our partners, and our planet. All of this is done to ensure on-time deliveries and a perfect experience for our customers.

The Director of Planning will be a critical leader within our organization, helping us live our values to drive impact by building a scale-able, cost saving, and data centric planning function. This will include building upon our foundation of Individually Quick Frozen (IQF) technology and partnerships, assembly manufacturing capacity modeling and allocation decisions, weekly reporting on inventory positions, and initiatives to support COGS savings. We are looking for an experienced, mission-driven supply chain expert who is interested in helping us deliver on our operational and sustainability goals. This leader will have the remit to build supply chains that drive results for our partners and Daily Harvest. In addition, this leader will have the opportunity to lead a high performing team of inventory & strategic planners, purchasing coordinators and business analysts to develop negotiation strategies, drive scale and optimization across the business, and support our exciting innovation pipeline.

What you’ll do:

• Lead the Planning function to ensure that volume is strategically allocated based on capacity, COGS, budget implications, forecast, etc. 
• Manage and lead a team responsible for weekly production planning & scheduling, raw material and packaging purchasing, and long term capacity planning
• Collaborate with the Sourcing department to enable and implement a strategic sourcing process for our direct ingredients and packaging spend, creating an iterative process that continuously improves our purchasing power and creates value for our customers, partners, business, and the environment
• Collaborate with our manufacturing partners to ensure optimized and best in class purchasing to reduce freight costs and optimize cash flow
• Ensure timely submitted and reconciled invoices from key partners
• Support manufacturing RFPS for redundancy or replacement as needed
• Ensure maintenance of all Master Data for Procurement, Planning, and MRP tools. Actively support onboarding and adoption of an end to end supply chain function through our ERP — inclusive of building new process maps, and engaging our suppliers & manufacturing partners
• Cultivate a high performing team by mentoring and developing business analysts as they support the strategic sourcing process for our categories end-to-end
• Develop a culture of continuous improvement through effective project management, use of retrospectives and by identifying new capabilities and processes that drive efficiency and improve our cost basis

Who you are:

• 6+ years of experience in operations and supply planning, consulting experience preferred
• BA/BS degree in business, supply chain or related discipline, CPM certification a plus, MBA a plus
• Someone with a clear understanding of manufacturing partner oversight and  best practices, especially in balancing business needs with sustainability values
• An expert negotiator who has handled multi-million dollar contract negotiations by following/developing a strategic sourcing process, professional training in negotiation practices a plus
• A creative problem solver with a process improvement mindset
• A data-driven decision maker who is passionate about bringing that mentality to their team
• A strong leader with a proven track record of managing large and diverse teams of both direct and indirect reports
• Detail-oriented – You possess strong organizational skills and consistently demonstrate a methodical approach to all your work
• Agile – You thrive in fast-paced and dynamic environments and are willing to get deep into the weeds where needed
• A strong communicator who can easily communicate complex solutions cross functionally and to upper management
• A successful track record of value creation from data-driven insights in supply chain or operations management
• Vast knowledge and interest in supply planning and continuous improvement processes with demonstrated experience in spend analysis and generating value throughout the supply chain
• Strong quantitative and analytical experience (either through education or professional experience), including expertise with G-Suite, Excel and procurement systems
• Flexibility to travel (up to 25%)
• Flexibility to work weekends when required (2-3 times per quarter)
• Fluency in Microsoft Office and Google Suite applications

The anticipated annual base salary range for this role is $145,000 - $170,000. Actual compensation will be commensurate with experience, qualifications, knowledge, and skills.

Benefits:

• Unlimited PTO Plan + flexible working hours 
• Equity participation + 401K 
• Competitive medical, dental, + vision insurance
• Fun IRL + virtual quarterly team events, happy hours, + DH team gatherings to celebrate our co-workers
• Ancillary benefits: Commuter, Citi Bike discounts, + Health & Wellness Perks
• Annual company retreat
• Unlimited Daily Harvest in the office to keep you hustling, not hangry (...always stocked)
• In office access to everything we create (including recipes in development)

At Daily Harvest, our mission is to take care of food, so that food can take care of you. And it wouldn’t be possible without our team. We celebrate the unique POV that each person brings to the table and believe in a collaborative and inclusive environment. As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, military or veteran status, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability or genetic information. These are our guiding principles and apply across all aspects of employment

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