About the Role:
The Materials Manager will be responsible for managing inventory levels, ensuring timely availability of materials, and facilitating effective communication across departments and with external partners. With a bias towards action and collaborative problem-solving, this role is crucial in maintaining efficient supply chain operations and meeting our commitment to delivering high-quality meals to our customers.
What You’ll Do:
- Manage the integration of MRP planning strategies with planning tools in order to streamline processes and enhance efficiency.
- Update KPIs and trimester goals actively, ensuring alignment with company objectives.
- Lead all tactical areas of materials and inventory planning to prevent stockouts and optimize inventory levels.
- Coordinate waste reduction efforts related to aging or obsolete raw materials.
- Develop and maintain an accurate inventory management system to track all raw materials across product categories.
- Collaborate with planning, procurement, and logistics teams to ensure timely procurement and delivery of ingredients and packaging materials.
- Support receiving and inventory management records of raw materials, including invoice reconciliation.
- Collaborate with suppliers, freight partners, copackers, fulfillment centers, and warehouses to ensure on-time delivery.
- Inform stakeholders of order status, delays, or other relevant information.
- Work with all divisions and departments to establish and maintain purchasing plans for all raw materials based on up-to-date demand forecasts, with an ability to pivot quickly and scrupulously prioritize competing demands.
Who You Are:
- Understanding of procurement, manufacturing, and logistics processes.
- Must be a self-starter with the ability to multitask and work independently or collaboratively.
- Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, logistics, business administration, or a related field.
- 3-5 years of experience in inventory management for food manufacturing, product development, and supply chain operations.
- Experience with ensuring quality, safety, and good manufacturing processes (GMPs) are followed.
- Ability to think creatively and develop solutions to ever-changing business needs and competing priorities.
- Highly organized and detail-oriented, able to execute daily tasks quickly and error-free.
- Comfortable working independently and communicating regularly with remote team members.
- Process-driven with a proactive “get-things-done” attitude.
- Tech-savvy with strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, with strong mathematical and analytical skills.
- Experience working in a fast-paced entrepreneurial environment.
- This position works with all departments, from sales to operations, and has a tremendous impact on overall operational efficiency.
About Little Spoon:
Little Spoon is the fastest growing baby and kids food brand in the United States. On a mission to make parents’ lives easier and kids healthier, we are bringing the future of kids food to the modern parent through a first-of-its-kind platform of products delivered straight to your door. Little Spoon sets your child up for a lifetime of health, from a baby’s very first bites through to their big kid years, with a portfolio of freshly-made baby food, early finger foods, toddler, big kid meals and snacks. Since launch, the company has delivered more than 50 million meals and is responsible for feeding more than 2.9% of US babies, helping to simplify the lives of hundreds of thousands of parents. Learn more at LittleSpoon.com or find us on Instagram at @LittleSpoon.
Recent accolades include:
🏆 Inc. Best Workplaces
🚀 Inc. 100 Fastest Growing Companies
🫶 Fast Company Brands That Matter
🤩 EY Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist
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