Packaging Procurement Manager - Wellness Pet Company

About Wellness Pet Company
The Wellness Pet Company crafts and produces premium natural pet food, treats, dental chews, and supplements. We believe that natural, premium nutrition focused on proven health outcomes is the foundation of creating mutual wellbeing for pets and their families. As a community of people, Wellies are positively obsessed with how to win for pets and their parents. We believe in the difference we make every single day, and we know that when we work collaboratively, Wellies are unstoppable – not only in providing the best nutrition to pets, but in building a better tomorrow for pets, their parents, and the world.

Your #lifeatwellnesspet

When you join Wellness Pet, you join a team whose aligned values and purpose create a unique and exciting place to work every day. Join us on our adventure to fulfill a life of wellbeing together with pets and their parents. Come for a walk with us today!

What You’ll Accomplish:

We are currently seeking a Packaging Procurement Manager to join our team. Reporting to the Director of Strategic Sourcing, this position is based out of our Corporate Headquarters in Burlington, MA. The Packaging Procurement Manager will support Wellness Pet’s packaging spend, drive supply chain efforts in projects related to new packaging development, evaluation of new vendors, and packaging technology while ensuring cost optimization across all formats for our internal manufacturing sites and our co-manufacturers:

• Conduct market research related to packaging materials, track pricing trends and conduct cost analyses to ensure a competitive packaging portfolio.
• Analyze upstream feedstocks/commodities; create cost models to understand impact on pricing of finished packaging materials.
• Manage direct and indirect packaging cost across a diverse portfolio of finished products manufactured at our internal sites and 3^rd party co-manufacturers totaling $35 Million++ annually.
• Manage ongoing packaging spend by tracking packaging buys with the planning group and ensuring agreed upon buying strategies are implemented.
• Develop and publish key PPV/ IPV & performance indicator reporting (KPI) for the packaging category.
• Troubleshoot and resolve packaging related issues in conjunction with the packaging engineering team.
• Identify and qualify new supply sources to reduce costs, simplify our supply chain and improve the overall quality of our vendor base.
• Coordinate vendor qualification and management processes with our Quality, Manufacturing and R&D teams.
• Support annual budget setting process for packaging.
• Assist with supplier negotiations and coordinating contract execution.
• Identify and drive value optimization initiatives for cost / manufacturing efficiencies.
• Drive periodic packaging reconciliation with internal & external manufacturing partners.
• Drive Wellness Pet’s agenda towards developing a sustainable packaging portfolio.
• Manage multiple projects simultaneously, including meeting facilitation, documentation, creating and managing timelines, and identifying opportunities for cost savings.

Who We’re Looking For:

Team Wellie is a group of people who are truly obsessed in all the best ways about winning for the consumer and the pets they love. And so, we are seeking an individual who:

• Is consumer-focused with all they do

• Continually challenges themselves to go the extra mile to get the job done, and ensure it’s done the right way as opposed to the easy way

• Holds themselves and others accountable

• Embraces continual development through the sharing of feedback and investment in learning opportunities

• Is a true collaborator, sharing resources, and engages in healthy debate

• Celebrates differences and strives to learn from others who are different from themselves

• Gives back to their community and supports sustainable practices

This position is ideally suited for an individual who is an analytical self-starter with strong interpersonal and communication skills, both verbal and written. Other qualifications include:

• Bachelor’s Degree in packaging or a related field
• Up to 6 years of experience working with data, preferably in a manufacturing environment.
• Understands basic manufacturing cost models & processes.
• Possesses the ability to analyze and present data to multiple levels of the organization.
• Well-developed project management skills
• Ability to work collaboratively across different functions.
• Technically savvy with MS Excel and PowerPoint and Access
• Ability to travel 30% of the time.

Why Work for Wellness Pet:

We care about the wellbeing of our people, their families, and their pets, so we treat every Wellie to a comprehensive benefits package full of extras to support their health, pets, passions, and professional development. More information about our benefits can be found on our?website. The Wellness Pet Company is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.

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