Senior Manager of Custom Products

Los Angeles, CA

The Senior Manager of Custom Products is responsible for creating and maintaining all custom sweetgreen skus within our Supply Chain.  The position ensures that all custom sweetgreen skus meet our standards for Quality, Ethos, Cost and Availability.

Education and Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s of Science Degree 
• Minimum of 5 years of experience managing Co-Packers, Custom Manufacturing and Commercialization of custom products in Food.

Job Requirements

• Proven leader with experience influencing across an organization, gains satisfaction when sharing knowledge, coaching, developing, motivating.
• Knowledge and understanding of Vendor and Inventory Management.
• Experience Managing P&Ls and understanding of financial metrics and costs throughout the Supply Chain.
• Knowledge of HACCP, SOP’s, and government/industry food safety and quality regulations, codes, and standards.
• Strong computer skills.
• Excellent communicator.
• Team player who demonstrates initiative and integrity while being able to work with little supervision.
• Ability to travel
• Location:  Los Angeles

Responsibilities

• Creation and Management sweetgreen custom skus. 
• Management of Commercialization Process.
• Owns Relationships with Co-Packers utilizing our Value Chain and Category Manager teams for input relationships
• Partners with Value Chain or Category Manager for Supplier Level Processing.
• Partners with Value Chain and Logistics on Distributor Level Processing.
• Monitors ingredients, production runs, and inventory across Suppliers, Co-Packers and Distributors to ensure Supply.
• Develops Multiple Strategies to meet current and future needs.
• Accountable for meeting standards on Transparency, Ethos, and Sustainability; Quality; Cost; and Supply Risk and Resiliency.

What you'll get

• Three different medical plans to suit your and your family's needs
• Dental and Vision insurance
• Flexible PTO plan
• 401k; company match of 50% up to 3% of employee contribution
• 5 months paid family leave; we believe in fully supporting new parents
• Employee HSA and FSA
• Complimentary greens
• An opportunity to make a real impact on the people around you, both by growing them and by connecting them to real food
• To live the sweetlife and celebrate your passion + purpose
• A collaborative team of people who live our core values and have your back
• A clear career path with opportunities for development, both personally and professionally
• Free sweetgreen swag

Come join the sweetlife!

About sweetgreen

sweetgreen is on a mission to build healthier communities by connecting people to real food. We passionately believe that real food should be convenient and accessible to everyone. Every day in each sweetgreen, our 3,500 team members make food from scratch, using fresh ingredients and produce delivered that morning. And in our local communities, we’re committed to leaving people better than we found them. We’re in the business of feeding people, and we’re out to change what that means.

sweetgreen provides equal opportunities for everyone that works for us and everyone that applies to join our team, without regard to sex or gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, any service, past, present, or future, in the uniformed services of the United States (military or veteran status), or any other consideration protected by federal, state, or local law.

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