Danone North America is building a stand alone structure for our Premium Organic Dairy business operations. The following role is intended to support that business as a ground floor opportunity supporting these exciting brands in a new context. This is a unique opportunity to join an outstanding business, with the iconic Horizon Organic brand and the innovative Wallaby yogurt brand, a distinctive premium, organic portfolio with a long-lasting strong commitment to sustainability across its value chain.

Position Description:

The Sr. Manager, Coman creates and manages relationships, agreements and projects with Co-manufacturing (Coman) Suppliers to deliver manufacturing capacity and capabilities at competitive costs, with excellent quality and performance. The role will lead an Inventory Control Team and is tasked with setting a clear direction, strategy and expectations for the group. The role participates in various commercial and quality system assessments of key Contract Manufacturers, with a particular focus on identification and quantification of opportunities for joint improvement activities. The role can be hybrid or remote with a preference to be based in Broomfield, CO.

Position Responsibilities:

• Category strategy development, validation & activation

• Develop in depth market comanufacturing knowledge for existing and innovation platforms
• Develop, lead and activate coman sourcing strategies to meet regional capacity requirements and Company established quality and performance criteria at competitive costs.
• Engage with and assist in onboarding new CoPackers

• Coman relationship & performance management

• Identify, build, and develop relationships with comanufacturers
• Preparation of performance objectives and annual business reviews

• Support Innovation and productivity projects

• Identify key innovation needs with Marketing and R&I, particularly in early stages of developments (Inno Days, Select & Define phases)

• Leverage coman network and assess innovation capabilities
• Identifying improvement projects and managing cross-functional implementation to improve performance of key components and suppliers

• Category reporting, compliance and system integration

• Prepare or contribute to Budget, price lists, and Purchase Price Variance Analysis

• Monitor Financial performance: productivity & cash
• Ensure coman Quality compliance: Manufacturing site audit
• Ensure coman performance compliance and generate action plans for any deficiencies
• Support contract compliance & GTCPs

• Secure sourcing of materials

• Together with Procurement Team:
• Support and ensure that capacity requirements are met
• Support Business Contingency plans for critical platforms or products
• Improve forecast accuracy with demand planning and suppliers

• Service Level Agreement with suppliers: Production to Plan measure

experience.

The base compensation range for this position is $96,000 - $143,000 commensurate with experience.

There is also an exciting Success Bonus opportunity related to this role.

This Position falls under which includes the potential sale of the Horizon Organic and Wallaby brands. An employee who accepts this role agrees to transition to a new employer in the event of a sale.

Requirements:

• Degree: BS in Business/Food Science/Engineering or equivalent
• Minimum eight years' experience required, preferably in CPG beverage procurement and food supply chain
• Experience in commercialization/ launches of new products
• Experience in leading, managing and developing direct reports

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong contract negotiation skills
• Solution oriented; always focused on solving problems
• Strong financial acumen and business understanding
• Excellent stakeholder influencing skills and cross functional leadership
• Project management fundamentals to easily facilitate cross functional projects
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to build positive relationships with plant leadership teams, corporate continuous improvement team and other functions as necessary

• Travel - Up to 50% (primarily North America)

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