[Hiring] Sr Sourcing Manager @Vital Farms

Role Description

The Sr. Sourcing Manager serves as a strategic business partner to leaders across the organization, helping identify and execute opportunities to reduce cost, improve supplier performance, mitigate risk, and enhance operational efficiency. This role goes beyond tactical purchasing and supplier management.

• Proactively identifies high-value sourcing opportunities
• Challenges existing assumptions
• Leads complex negotiations
• Helps internal stakeholders make better business decisions
• Builds demand for Procurement by consistently delivering business value
• Requires strong commercial judgment and exceptional stakeholder management
• Balances strategic thinking with practical execution
• Becomes a trusted advisor to functional leaders

Qualifications

• 7+ years of progressive experience in strategic sourcing, category management, procurement transformation, supplier management, or supply-chain-heavy commercial roles
• Proven success leading negotiations, evaluating supplier proposals, and delivering measurable cost savings and business value
• Strong ability to influence senior leaders and cross-functional stakeholders
• Experience in manufacturing, food, CPG, agriculture, or supply-chain-heavy environments preferred
• Demonstrated ability to use spend data, analytics, and market insights
• Ability to build should-cost and total-cost models, sourcing scorecards, and decision frameworks
• Advanced Excel skills with experience using Power BI, ERP, or procurement systems such as Microsoft Dynamics 365
• Ability to travel 20–30%, or as needed

Requirements

• Build trusted relationships with leaders across Operations, Marketing, IT, HR, Finance, and Shared Services
• Understand business priorities and proactively identify sourcing opportunities aligned with company goals
• Serve as a thought partner, not merely a purchasing function
• Challenge specifications, demand assumptions, and supplier selection decisions when appropriate
• Develop category strategies for key indirect and operational spend areas
• Analyze spend, supplier fragmentation, and market trends to identify savings opportunities
• Build and maintain a prioritized sourcing pipeline based on enterprise value
• Lead RFIs, RFQs, and RFPs for complex spend categories
• Develop negotiation strategies grounded in market intelligence and cost drivers
• Negotiate pricing, service levels, contract terms, and performance commitments
• Develop supplier performance scorecards and governance processes
• Monitor supplier performance, risk, and compliance
• Partner with suppliers to drive continuous improvement and innovation
• Lead cross-functional sourcing projects involving multiple stakeholders
• Influence decisions without direct authority
• Communicate tradeoffs clearly to leaders and build alignment
• Drive execution through ambiguity and change

Benefits

• A fast-paced, energetic, remote environment with passionate people
• Competitive pay and benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, and Paid Parental Leave)
• Generous retirement contributions: 401(k) + 3% Contribution from Day 1
• Free eggs, along with friends and family discounts
• Fun team SWAG
• Professional development opportunities and an amazing team dedicated to your growth
• Compensation range: $130,000 - $150,000

Company Description

Vital Farms, a Certified B Corporation, offers a range of ethically produced foods nationwide. Started on a single farm in Austin, Texas, in 2007, Vital Farms became a national consumer brand that works with 600 family farms and is the leading U.S. brand of pasture-raised eggs by retail dollar sales.

• Focus on the humane treatment of farm animals and sustainable farming practices
• Prioritizes long-term benefits of each of its stakeholders
• Exists to improve the lives of people, animals, and our planet through food