About Us
OLIPOP was founded in 2017 by Ben Goodwin and David Lester. Ben and David have been working together for nearly a decade to find accessible solutions to bring the benefits of digestive health to as many consumers as possible. OLIPOP is a deliciously refreshing tonic that is crafted with prebiotics, botanicals, and natural plant fiber to support your microbiome and benefit digestive health. We're on a mission to provide an affordable, delicious alternative to soda that delivers leading-edge health benefits to mainstream consumers.
OUR TEAM
At Olipop our values lead the way we create our products, engage with each other, and interact with our community. While we’re invested in our product, we’re equally invested in personal development. We’re tightly knit, we’re genuine and we’re always pushing the envelope to do a better job than we did the day before. Our team is also fully remote, requiring us to be resourceful, creative and collaborative to support our fast-moving business.
To best serve our diverse community of customers, we also seek to recruit and include people with a diversity of abilities, backgrounds, and cultures.
What You’ll Need
Working at a start-up can be as much a personal journey as it is a professional one. To succeed at a company like Olipop, you must be comfortable with failing, learning, and adapting. You need to be curious, optimistic, and able to find a way when it seems impossible. You must be confident enough to express your ideas but humble and open to learning from your experiences and from others. If this is the approach you take to life, then we’d love to hear from you.
THE ROLE
Olipop is searching for a Sr. Manager, Supply Chain Finance to oversee and optimize the financial performance of the Supply Chain function of our organization. The Supply Chain team spans Procurement, Planning, Commercialization, Logistics, Quality Assurance, and R&D, and this role will be critical in serving as a strategic financial lead on cost saving initiatives, new product innovation, network optimization, freight and warehousing analysis, contract negotiations, COGS forecasting, inventory optimization, and associated FP&A activities.
In this role, you will need to get into the weeds and build reports, dashboards, and analytics in collaboration with Supply Chain leaders to measure and track performance against Supply Chain and overall organization goals, but be able to quickly elevate and communicate trends and their implications, along with recommended actions needed. In addition to building, you will be asked to think critically and strategically about the implications of your analysis and present the findings to our leadership team. You will need to be an effective collaborator, able to support our Supply Chain leaders needs while also being willing to challenge perspectives.
Responsibilities
This role will serve as a business partner to our Supply Chain team, helping to support ongoing decision making, analysis in support of long-term strategic projects, product innovation and commercialization, annual planning & forecasting, maintaining monthly budget and forecast models.
Lead and manage cost saving initiatives program by organizing, tracking and quantifying cost savings.
Collaborate with Supply Chain leaders on building out dashboards to summarize data and measure KPIs.
Maintain bottoms up forecasts for key Supply Chain P&L line items such as Product COGS, Freight, and Warehousing.
Evaluate new co-manufacturer or third-party warehouse agreements in conjunction with Supply Chain leadership team.
Own annual Supply Chain budgeting process and lead monthly budget review meetings.
Build frameworks for evaluating new product innovation requests and/or new customer or channel opportunities on an ongoing basis.
Partner with Supply Chain leadership on network optimization buildout.
Support Supply Chain leaders with ad hoc reporting, as needed.
Qualifications
Analytical and continuous improvement mindset with the ability to build complex, detailed and high-quality models and step back to summarize the implications and recommended actions.
High level of emotional intelligence and cultural competency, with an ability to operate in an unstructured and highly dynamic environment.
A strong communicator with excellent written and verbal communication skills and strong presentation skills, with the ability to simplify complex analyses to simple insights.
Advanced Excel experience with the ability to manage, simplify, and analyze large datasets is required.
A few intangibles to think about:
Expertise in creating processes and tools to support budget process and profitability analysis.
Experience in Supply Chain Finance for a CPG brand is highly preferred.
Experience with NetSuite and/or Datarails is a plus.
8+ years of experience in a combination CPG finance, consulting, investment banking or other analytically intense role, with an emphasis on Supply Chain, is a plus.
Prior experience at a rapidly scaling startup is a plus.
REPORTS TO: Director, FP&A
COMPENSATION: $135,000-145,000 base salary + bonus
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Olipop does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination under Federal law. For more information, please see EEO is the Law.
We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. Olipop does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor. Applicants and employees are protected from discrimination under Federal law. For more information, please see EEO is the Law.
