The Farmer's Dog
Procurement Operations Manager
New York, New York, United States · Director
Sponsorship not specified$130k-$145kDetected 8 days ago
Project ManagementExcelSupply ChainProcess ImprovementProcurementPerformance ManagementLeadershipCommunicationCollaborationAdaptability
About the role
- This role serves as the operational bridge across procurement and the broader organization, driving alignment, clarity, and operational rigor.
- This position requires a strategic thinker with strong leadership and communication skills, as well as a highly analytical and organized mindset.
- You will help elevate how Procurement operates by introducing scalable processes, improving visibility, and enabling more data driven decision making.
Responsibilities
- Build and maintain operational frameworks that improve how the procurement team collaborates, prioritizes work and delivers against goals.
- Develop scalable systems and documentation practices that support transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Manage and develop the Procurement Analyst, setting priorities and ensuring strong execution across key operational and analytical workstreams.
- Drive reporting and data visibility across procurement, including cost tracking, supplier performance, and key risk indicators.
- Translate data into actionable insights to support Category Owners and leadership in decision making.
- New Products & Commercialization Support
- Support procurement execution for Stage 0 commercialization and new product introductions by coordinating timelines, inputs and cross functional alignment.
- Partner with Category Owners, who retain ownership of sourcing strategy, to ensure early engagement, clear requirements, and alignment on ingredient sourcing, cost targets, and timelines.
- Drive visibility into risks, dependencies, and readiness across stakeholders, ensuring issues are surfaced and addressed early.
- Lead coordination of procurement workstreams for new coman setup, ensuring readiness across contracting, ingredient availability, and documentation.
Requirements
- You have 5+ years of experience in Purchasing, Supply Chain, or Manufacturing roles.
- In depth knowledge of Lean and Six Sigma methodologies and tools.
- You have excellent analytics skills and a proven track record of translating data driven insight into action and consumer facing impact.
- You have clear, confident and persuasive verbal & written communication skills when working with a diverse group of cross stakeholders
Compensation
- Market-competitive compensation and equity packages
Benefits
- The Farmer's Dog was born from a mission to change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care.
- Join us as we continue to develop ways of bringing peace of mind to customers, health to their companions, and much-needed change to the way people feed and care for their pets.
- Market-competitive compensation and equity packages
- Comprehensive Healthcare, Dental, and Vision
- Company supported mental health benefits
- 12 week paid parental leave
Company info
- The Farmer's Dog was born from a mission to change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care. We're starting by radically improving the $90 billion pet food industry, replacing bags of highly-processed pellets with a personalized subscription service that sends complete and balanced, freshly-made dog food directly to customers' doors. Our ultimate goal is to create innovative, delightful and personalized experiences across all aspects of pet care, and we believe our direct-to-consumer business model, holistic approach to growth, and dynamic culture uniquely position us to shepherd this backwards industry into the future.
- To date, The Farmer's Dog has delivered over 1 billion meals nationwide and raised over $150M in funding to help us build a company as healthy as the dogs who are eating those meals. Join us as we continue to develop ways of bringing peace of mind to customers, health to their companions, and much-needed change to the way people feed and care for their pets.
- #LongLiveDogs
- What We Stand For and Where You'll Come In
- We're starting by radically improving the $90 billion pet food industry, replacing bags of highly-processed pellets with a personalized subscription service that sends complete and balanced, freshly-made dog food directly to customers' doors.
- Our ultimate goal is to create innovative, delightful and personalized experiences across all aspects of pet care, and we believe our direct-to-consumer business model, holistic approach to growth, and dynamic culture uniquely position us to shepherd this backwards industry into the future.
- As the Procurement Operations Manager, you'll be responsible for managing the internal processes and tooling that keep the procurement team operating efficiently across shared workstreams.
- You will play a critical role in supporting Stage 0 commercialization and new item onboarding, ensuring strong coordination, visibility, and execution across cross functional teams-while enabling Category Owners to engage earlier and own sourcing strategy.
Equal opportunity
- The Farmer's Dog, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic or status.
- For more information, please visit Know Your Rights.
- Reasonable Accommodations
- TFD complies with applicable federal, state, and local disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities.
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