[Hiring] Manager, Supply Strategy & Operations @Burq, Inc.

Role Description

The Supply Strategy & Operations Manager is a critical leadership role at the intersection of strategy and execution. You will own our entire supply-side ecosystem:

• Building and managing relationships with national, regional, and local delivery service providers (DSPs).
• Defining the strategy for how we grow and optimize our supply network.
• Driving the operational rigor needed to hit best-in-class delivery performance metrics.

What You'll Own

• Supply Strategy
  • Define and execute a multi-tier DSP network strategy across national, regional, and local providers to ensure coverage, redundancy, and cost efficiency.
  • Identify white-space markets and capacity gaps; lead the sourcing and onboarding of new DSP partners.
  • Build frameworks for DSP tiering, preferred partner programs, and volume allocation based on performance and strategic fit.
  • Partner with leadership on pricing, margin, and supply economics to inform long-range business planning.
• DSP Relationship Management
  • Serve as the primary point of contact for key DSP partners, building trusted, long-term relationships with owner-operators and national account teams.
  • Negotiate contracts, SLAs, and commercial terms with carrier partners.
  • Lead regular business reviews with strategic DSPs, driving accountability against performance targets and surfacing mutual growth opportunities.
• Supply Operations & Performance
  • Own core supply KPIs end-to-end, including successful delivery rate, on-time delivery (OTD), cancellations, refund rates, and DSP support ticket resolution.
  • Establish and maintain DSP scorecards; drive structured performance improvement plans (PIPs) for underperforming partners.
  • Lead cross-functional initiatives with Product, Engineering, Merchant Success, and Support to resolve systemic supply issues.
  • Build and maintain operational playbooks for DSP onboarding, incident management, and capacity surge response.
  • Analyze delivery data to identify root causes of failure, surface insights, and implement operational improvements at scale.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in technology, logistics, supply chain, carrier management, or last-mile operations.
• Proven track record managing external partners or vendor relationships in a performance-driven environment.
• Strong analytical skills — comfortable building models, interpreting data, and translating findings into decisions.
• Exceptional communicator with the ability to negotiate, influence, and build trust with external operators and internal stakeholders alike.
• Experience with DSP networks, gig delivery platforms, or courier operations is a strong plus.
• Startup or scale-up experience; you thrive in ambiguous environments and can build structure where little exists.
• Bias toward action — you don't wait for perfect information to move forward.
• SQL or data visualization skills (Tableau, etc.).
• Experience structuring and negotiating carrier contracts or MSAs.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary, Stock Options, and Performance-based Bonuses
• Fully Remote
• Comprehensive Medical, Vision and Dental Insurance

Company Description

At Burq, we value diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer: we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.