Head of Manufacturing Strategy & Innovation

Strategic Sourcing Manager
The Strategic Sourcing Manager will lead sourcing strategy, initial supplier setup, supplier management, and project management for raw materials, packaging, and manufacturing-related spend categories supporting PetIQ product innovation. This role partners closely with Manufacturing, Quality, R&D, Finance, Innovation, and Supply stakeholders to ensure reliable supply, cost competitiveness, timely execution, and compliance with regulatory and quality standards specific to PetIQ's product innovation. A critical function of this role is to manage cross functional sourcing and supply workstreams, establish project plans, drive accountability against milestones, communicate risks and decisions, and help progress innovation projects from concept through successful commercialization. The role will sit on PetIQ's product innovation council and represent Supply in progressing projects to successful commercialization.
Develop and execute sourcing strategies for raw materials, active ingredients, and packaging categories supporting PetIQ's operations
Lead supplier selection, negotiation, and contract management to ensure cost, quality, and supply continuity targets are met
Manage cross functional project plans for sourcing supply related innovation initiatives, including timelines, milestones, deliverables, owners, risks, and issue resolution.
Partner with Manufacturing and Quality teams to qualify new suppliers and ensure compliance with FDA, USDA, EPA or other applicable regulatory requirements
Drive project governance and communication by coordinating stakeholders, facilitating decision-making, tracking progress, and escalating barriers that could impact commercialization timing or supply readiness.
Identify and mitigate supply risks single-source dependencies, ingredient availability, commodity price volatility, and supplier financial health
Partner with Legal to negotiate supply agreements, quality agreements, and SLAs
Support new product development sourcing, including ingredient/packaging trials and supplier onboarding
Drive supplier diversity, sustainability, and business continuity planning initiatives
Partner closely with Supply to handoff innovation projects to Supply upon/leading up to commercialization
5+ years of experience in strategic sourcing, procurement, or supply chain, ideally within manufacturing, CPG, food/beverage, pharmaceutical, or animal health industries

• Experience sourcing raw materials/ingredients and packaging in a regulated manufacturing environment
• comfortable with spend analysis, TCO modeling, and commodity market tracking
• SAP, Oracle, Sage X3)
• Demonstrated project management capability, including experience managing cross-functional timelines, milestones, risks, decisions, and stakeholder communications.
• Up to 50% travel may be required

Experience sourcing within pet food, animal health, nutraceutical, pharmaceutical, or consumer packaged goods industries
Familiarity with FDA/USDA/EPA regulatory requirements for consumable/health products/pesticides
Experience with supplier quality agreements and audits
Experience managing global suppliers or international sourcing
Ability to safely and successfully perform the essential job functions consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards, including meeting qualitative and/or quantitative productivity standards.
Ability to maintain regular, punctual attendance consistent with the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.
Our Mission is to become the most trusted ally for pet parents and a leading authority in pet health and wellbeing. Our promise is to deliver smarter health and wellbeing solutions that are innovative, accessible, educational, and always effective.
We're dedicated to improving pet health and wellbeing through every interaction, product, and service we provide.
We're always learning, improving, and striving to do betterfor ourselves, our teams, and our customers.
Adaptive & Agile: We embrace change, move fast, and use it as our next advantage in creating innovative solutions for pets and their families.
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