Packaging Associate

Impossible Foods is addressing the most catastrophic threats facing humanity: climate change and biodiversity collapse. A global transition to a plant-based food system will turn back the clock on atmospheric CO2 levels, restore natural ecosystems and reverse meltdown in wildlife biomass.

The easiest -- if not only -- way to make our civilization sustainable is to eliminate livestock, the most dangerous technology on Earth. But humans won't give up meat. So we need to make meat better -- more delicious and more nutritious, without animals as the underlying production technology. That means that making meat sustainably is the most important and urgent problem for the global scientific community.

Impossible Foods' mission is to completely replace the use of animals as a food-production technology by offering consumers everything they currently value about animal products -- and making products that are vastly superior to their animal analogues.

To do this, we are taking a revolutionary scientific and market-based approach. We are inventing efficient, sustainable ways to transform ingredients from plants into meat, fish and dairy foods that deliver all the pleasures and nutritional benefits consumers demand, without the destructive environmental or public health impact.

Our world-class R&D team has been building the know-how and technology platform to produce meat, fish and dairy foods from plants. Impossible Foods is experiencing rapid growth and is resolutely committed to leading all aspects of the plant-based food revolution-from discovery to commercial production. The only thing that will separate Impossible Foods from success and failure is our ability to recruit more world-class experts.

Want to join? Check out the job opening and requirements below:

This role will help optimize sourcing decisions to include risk mitigation, item affordability, vendor performance objectives for key packaging components and supplier manufacturing capabilities, reporting to the Packaging Sourcing Manager.

You Will

• Research and craft international sourcing strategy for Packaging components by country
• Maintain Supplier Scorecard for all Packaging suppliers
• Support Packaging Sourcing in new vendor identification and packaging optimization to drive company initiatives forward
• Evaluate potential supply risks with our key suppliers and identify and remediate potential issues
• Assesses category performance where readily available against contract and provides transparency to Finance and Accounting for forecasting purposes
• Engage in financial analysis of bids and contracts
• Build spend metric dashboards on a monthly and quarterly basis.
• Contribute and support quarterly business reviews with key suppliers.
• Develops strong working relationships with team members and business partners cross functionally to achieve desired outcomes
• Support the Sourcing team with activities including, but not limited to developing RFI/RFPs, scoring RFI/RFPs, preparation for supplier meetings

You Have

• A Bachelor's degree in business administration, finance, operations research, materials management, and or economics
• Minimum 2-4 years of proven ability in a highly analytical, data intensive and/or strategic role at a startup or management consulting firm.
• CPG/Food company experience
• The skills to synthesize large, data sets into clear, impactful metrics and reports that will help drive our business
• The ability to identify and understand issues, problems, and opportunities; compare data from different and disparate sources to draw conclusions
• Knowledge and analytical approach to a broad range of supplier information such as financial data, market position, management capabilities, etc. and identify potential risks.
• Excellent quantitative skills.
• Structured and organized thinking and can drive analytical projects to completion with minimal direction; driven analytical ability, attention to detail and ability to deep-dive when vital
• Proficiency in SQL, Excel, Financial modeling and MS Powerpoint, BI/ reporting tools like Tableau, Qlik, SEI, Crystal Reports

Impossible Foods Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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