Vice President, Packaging Sourcing & Procurement

The posting, as Kinder's wrote it

BUILT ON FLAVOR. FUELED BY PEOPLE.

What’s it like to work at Kinder’s? Well, there’s a lot of snacking and geeking out over what we all cooked over the weekend. Beyond that, there’s also plenty of hard work. Because we don’t just like flavor, we’re obsessed with it.

With over 100 products sold nationwide, we’re now a top-five brand in multiple flavor categories at Costco, Walmart, Whole Foods, and more. We’re not your typical CPG company. Privately held and founder-led, we like to think of ourselves as a pirate ship in a sea of cruise ships . Our crew is adventurous and fearless. We chart our own course and chase big ideas to make food unforgettable.

As we expand globally and approach $1 billion in revenue, we need more smart-and-scrappy, flavor-obsessed people to come aboard. If you’re looking for a place where you can see the real impact of your work... this is it! Every day, you’ll be part of a journey to add flavor to millions of meals and lives.

How You'll Make an Impact at Kinder's

The Vice President, Packaging Sourcing & Procurement will lead Kinder’s enterprise sourcing and procurement strategy across all packaging categories, building the supplier network, commercial capabilities, and supply continuity plans required to support continued profitable growth.

As Kinder’s expands its portfolio, channels, innovation pipeline, and manufacturing network, this leader will create a scalable packaging procurement function that can support the speed of an entrepreneurial business and the complexity of a rapidly growing CPG company. The Vice President will have broad responsibility for category strategy, supplier selection and development, negotiations and contracting, cost and productivity, supplier performance, risk management, and packaging supply continuity.

Working across Packaging Engineering, R&D, Innovation, Operations, Planning, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, and external manufacturing partners, this leader will ensure Kinder’s has the right packaging suppliers, materials, capacity, commercial agreements, and contingency plans to support both current operations and future growth.

The ideal candidate combines deep packaging-category knowledge with strong commercial judgment and enterprise leadership. They understand the supplier markets, manufacturing processes, cost drivers, and supply risks behind major packaging categories and can translate that knowledge into sourcing strategies that improve cost, service, quality, innovation, and resilience.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Packaging Sourcing & Procurement Strategy

• Develop and lead Kinder’s enterprise sourcing and procurement strategy across all packaging materials and components.
• Translate business plans, demand growth, innovation pipelines, and manufacturing requirements into long-term packaging category, supplier, capacity, and continuity strategies.
• Establish multi-year sourcing roadmaps that balance cost, quality, service, innovation, sustainability, speed t

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• We try to be good team members and good communicators, but we don’t live by hierarchy and structure – everyone is a difference maker here.
• We make a lot of decisions in the face of incomplete information – our team embraces ambiguity and tries to make good decisions fast rather than great decisions slow.
• We believe our job is to take smart risk, not to eliminate risk.
• We believe in growing our skills and becoming a better company with more managerial expertise, but we are an entrepreneurial company at heart.
• We aren’t trying to be average – we want to do exceptional things, and we are willing to work hard to achieve them.

BENEFITS THAT BRING MORE TO THE TABLE

We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, 401k, bonus / incentive eligibility, equity grants, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits, including parental leave. Kinder’s benefits vary based on eligibility and can be reviewed in more detail during the interview process.

OUR RECIPE FOR BALANCE

We believe great culture starts with people. We’re a people-first company built on connection, collaboration, and balance. Most of our work happens in the office to spark creativity and community, but we also offer flexibility so team members have the autonomy to work outside the office when needed to support their work-life balance and personal commitments.

WHERE EVERY INGREDIENT MATTERS

Kinder's is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ancestry, national origin, gender, citizenship, marital status, religion, age, disability, gender identity, results of genetic testing, veteran status, as well as any other legally-protected characteristic. If you have a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act or similar law, and you need any accommodation during the application process or to perform these job requirements, please reach out to us at careers@kinders.com