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About the Role
This is a high-impact role at a pivotal moment for our business, integrating two distinct packaging organizations into a unified NA function, expanding our product portfolio, and building the supply chain infrastructure to support HelloFresh’s growth. You will own the end-to-end packaging sourcing strategy across North America, leading a team of Strategy Managers accountable for key categories.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of Strategy Managers across core packaging categories.
- Drive the integration of the CA and US packaging sourcing teams.
- Build a team culture of urgency, ownership, and continuous improvement.
- Develop and execute short and long-term NA packaging sourcing roadmap.
- Set and oversee the achievement of OKRs on cost, supply chain resilience, innovation, supplier performance, and team development.
- Identify and pursue opportunities to platform sourcing globally.
- Explore and develop innovative supply chain models.
- Support annual budgeting and drive savings initiatives across NA packaging spend.
- Lead multi-million dollar contract negotiations and RFP processes.
- Scale and strengthen our supplier network.
- Manage supply chain risk through dual-sourcing strategies, supplier performance management, and proactive contingency planning.
- Partner with Packaging Engineering to ensure suppliers meet quality and specification requirements.
- Improve inventory management and supply planning approaches across the NA network.
- Partner with Product, Operations, Finance, and Engineering to ensure packaging sourcing strategies support business needs.
- Navigate competing priorities across NA business units and brands.
- Represent NA Packaging Sourcing in global forums.
Requirements
- 12+ years of progressive experience in procurement or strategic sourcing, with significant packaging category experience.
- Demonstrated experience building and leading high-performing sourcing teams, ideally across multiple geographies or business units.
- Hands-on experience in RFPs, contract negotiations, category strategy development, and supplier performance management.
- Strong financial acumen including budget management, TCO modeling, and cost driver analysis.
- Experience navigating organizational change, integration, or transformation.
- Flexibility to travel (up to 25%).
- Fluency in Google Suite; comfort with data tools and supply chain systems.
- Comfortable with ambiguity and change.
- An expert negotiator with hands-on experience managing multi-million dollar contracts and complex supplier relationships.
- A data-driven decision maker.
- A strong people leader with proven experience developing diverse, geographically distributed teams.
- A skilled communicator who can translate complex supply chain trade-offs into clear recommendations for senior leadership.
- Agile and self-directed.
- Curious and externally connected.
Skills
- Packaging Sourcing
- Strategic Sourcing
- Negotiation
- Contract Management
- RFP Process
- Category Strategy Development
- Supplier Performance Management
- Financial Acumen
- Budget Management
- TCO Modeling
- Cost Driver Analysis
- Organizational Change Management
- Data Analysis
- Supply Chain Management
- Team Leadership
- Communication
- Agility
- Google Suite
Location
- Toronto, ON
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote
Experience Level
- Director
- 12+ years
Education Level
- Degree in Supply Chain Management, Business Administration, or a related field is preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $167,000—$180,000 CAD
Benefits
- Box Discount - 75% discount on weekly HelloFresh and Chefs Plate meal kits AND 50% off weekly Factor meal box.
- Health & Wellness - Health & Dental benefits from day 1, a Health Spending Account, unlimited access to the Headspace app, and 25% discount on GoodLife fitness memberships!
- Vacation & PTO - Generous vacation and PTO.
- Family Benefits - A parental leave top-up program.
- Growth & Development - Development opportunities and investment in continued learning through L&D fund.
- Work Hard & Have Fun - Team socials and engaging company days.
- Diversity & Inclusion Initiatives - ERG’s like FreshPride, Women Empowered and LIMES.
- Flexible Hybrid Approach - Minimum of 2 days in office per week, with most teams in office between 2-3 days a week.
About the Company
- HelloFresh is a meal kit company that is expanding its product portfolio and building supply chain infrastructure to support growth.
Equal Opportunity
- With impactful ERG’s like FreshPride, Women Empowered and LIMES, we are committed to our diversity, equity & inclusion efforts.