Job Description

Better Nutritionals, LLC, a premium gummy manufacturer providing innovative pectin-based nutritional gummy products that are created to improve the quality of our customers’ lives; is seeking to add a leader to our team as our company accelerates on an exciting growth curve.

We are seeking an exceptional leadership candidate, with a balanced approach to achieving high-quality results, delivering on business and customer commitments while partnering with all other business functions to execute with excellence and passion.

This leader, a position more traditionally called: Supply Chain Manager, will have overall responsibility for:

• Inventory Management
• Purchasing Activities
• Warehouse Operations
• Operations Reporting
• Work Order Operations support for execution
• Managing product-to-customer operations

This leadership candidate will have effective experience in the food and beverage industry. This leader must understand how to operate efficiently and effectively in a regulated environment. Command of the areas of purchasing, contracts, bids, distribution and storage, MRO, Kanban systems and related are foundational to the role. Specifically, experience with NetSuite ERP, is a very big plus for the candidate.

The scope of the role, in the context of people, will be responsible for the warehouse team, manufacturing reporting team, and growing supply chain operations with the business. BN’s business operations must be lean and efficient, executing with excellence, and delivering on the goals for providing our customers with the highest quality nutritional gummies in the industry On Time, In Full. Understanding and managing the cost of operations will be requisite for achieving business objectives and goals. Establishing performance metrics that both motivate our team and provide insight to the leadership team will be expected.

REQUIREMENTS FOR A QUALIFIED CANDIDATE FOR THE POSITION:

As a small but rapidly growing firm, any leader in this organization must be committed to demonstrating the ability to “jump in” and do what is necessary to achieve the BN standards and deliver to our customers, while possessing the maturity to know when to step back, assess, and lead their organization.

• Better Nutritionals is a start-up company and growing quickly. A manager in BN must be able to self-identify the needs of the business, from a supply chain aspect, translate those needs to simple and clear actions, and execute with excellence
• Significant experience in: manufacturing, planning, supply chain, distribution and ERP in the food and beverage industry is key.
• The equivalent of 7+ years of increasing responsibility in the area of supply chain or its foundational disciplines is expected.
• A bachelor-level degree in business, supply chain, or related. Higher-level degrees a plus.
• Supply Chain certifications are also viewed as a big plus for candidates. (e.g. APICS or CSCP), and a strong indicator of professional progression.
• A strong background in planning multi-shift production operations will be extremely helpful in this role, to ensure uninterrupted supply of materials to manufacturing.
• Experience in vendor selection, bidding/contracts, partnering with QA for vendor qualification and a basic understanding of regulatory requirements that apply to the SC role are expected.
• Experience using, setting user requirements and/or implementing an ERP for supply chain at BN (BN is using NetSuite), setting planning factors for MRP in NetSuite, execution of tasks, as aligned with the positions (e.g. purchase order or inventory management) in NetSuite.
• Knowledge of effective inventory management techniques, resulting in cost-effective inventory management, safety stock management and storage management is core to the candidate executing the role with optimal financial performance.
• Clear, concise communication skills: Listening, speaking and writing, actively engaging with the BN team to facilitate execution of business requirements, will be an asset to a strong candidate. The role requires clear written and verbal communication skills, which will augment the strong emphasis on leadership in the role. All good leaders must have good listening skills.
• With Norco operations initiating (or ongoing) intercompany transfer of inventory, without disruption to operations is critical. Cost management and resource management commensurate with uninterrupted supply is an integral part of the role.
• The position will require an active working relationship with Sales operations to ensure that customers are able to get their product as agreed-upon in their contract with BN.
• On-going monitor inventory levels to avoid outages, expensive over-night replenishment, and general cost-effective uninterrupted supply to manufacturing
• Knowledge of overall inventory cost/capitalized inventory and MRO will be needed to establish financial targets for the business. Working knowledge of this information will be needed to execute the position responsibilities
• Clear, simple and concise metrics are to be used and/or created to provide demonstration of performance in the areas of responsibilities. Examples could be: incoming freight costs, rental storage space costs, warehouse personnel overtime, metrics on manufacturing interruptions due to supply gaps, and others.
• Managers need to have the skills to back-fill people in their area of responsibility as needed to avoid disruption to operations due to one of the supply chain employees not being able to work or has been diverted to other priorities.
• Spreadsheet and reporting skills are also desirable for the candidate to command.
• Experience in working closely with customers, suppliers, integrating customer requirements evolving in a customer-centric business are core to the role.
• Fluency in both English and Spanish are very desirable.

QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

REQUIREMENTS FOR WORKING WITH THE BN TEAM:

Better Nutritionals creates and manufactures products that improve the quality of lives of children and adults. Our products are premium products that demand performance to a higher level.

The core value of Better Nutritionals is: CARING.

Better Nutritionals business execution is grounded in these four values:

o Our Customer & Growth

o Food Safety & Compliance

o Operational Excellence

o Enriching our People

The employees of Better Nutritionals must embrace these four pillars of value, with passion. Leaders must be a role model for these behaviors. The work we do makes a difference. Better Nutritionals is a leader in its space, because of its people.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS (if any portion of your position involves manufacturing and related operations) The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand for the duration of their shift, including traversing to and from areas within the production floor. Occasionally required to squat, climb and bend during their shift. The employee is constantly required to move around their line in an area of approximately 300 square feet, including pushing and pulling up to 50 to 75 lbs. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 lbs.. Heavier lifting and moving must be done with the assistance of a second person. Requires the constant use of hand to finger motions, handle, grip, or feel; reach with hands and arms. Speech and hearing abilities are used all the time. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

OTHER WORK-RELATED EXPECTATIONS:

40+ hour, 5-day work week, with work schedules requiring some weekend work and off-shift work coverage. The business can operate 7 days per week, and there are times where leadership support of these operations will be required.

This is primarily an office-based role, however being present in the warehouse and other areas of plant operations will be needed. There are requirements to be in the direct manufacturing and warehouse locations. Warehousing and Manufacturing can expose an employee to high-temperature equipment, kettles, piping and noise. When in these areas, walking will be required, along with compliance with all GMP and PPE requirements.

The positions will require work on the computer, reading, time management, sitting, standing and walking through areas, phone work, phone meetings, computer-based meetings, writing, typing, and general office work. When not in the office, walking and observing operations will be part of the execution of the job. The split between these two will be determined by the needs of the business at any particular time. Better Nutritionals has secured a new manufacturing facility that is currently under development in Norco, CA.

Better Nutritionals will be developing this facility to expand manufacturing operations, several fold. This site will likely be the larger operation in the future and the likely hub for the business’ Leadership. Working at Norco, as the primary location for the role or a secondary location, if based in Gardena, needs to be considered as part of executing the role effectively.

Manufacturing and offices for Better Nutritionals, LLC are currently located in Gardena, CA and Norco, CA.

Company Description

We are Better Nutritionals, a state of the art facility founded in 2014 after the need for superior manufacturing arose from our sister company, Vitamin Friends. Our CEO and Founder, saw the need for a high quality manufacturing facility to meet his supplement needs and started on his journey to create Better Nutritionals. Now, we are one of, if not THE, leader in our industry able to fulfill YOUR supplement needs and do so with the certifications that consumers are demanding. We are Better Nutritionals!