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About the Role

The Manager of Supply Chain Innovation (NYC) drives strategic sourcing, supplier partnerships, commercialization, and supply chain innovation for Impact Kitchen's New York market. This role ensures new products, ingredients, and packaging are successfully sourced and operationalized, supporting profitability, quality, and Impact Kitchen's Food Philosophy. A key focus is building a resilient, values-driven supply chain by cultivating relationships with local producers, regenerative farms, and mission-aligned suppliers.

Responsibilities

Develop and execute a sourcing strategy that prioritizes local, seasonal, ethical, and regenerative suppliers.
Build long-term partnerships with regenerative farms, local producers, and mission-aligned suppliers.
Continuously identify innovative ingredients and products that improve nutritional quality, guest experience, and competitive differentiation.
Research market trends and emerging suppliers to bring best-in-class food and packaging innovations.
Lead the evaluation and commercialization of new ingredients, suppliers, and packaging.
Champion environmentally responsible packaging solutions.
Stay informed on evolving sustainability, food safety, and regulatory requirements.
Own the end-to-end supply chain strategy for the New York market.
Negotiate best-in-class pricing, contract terms, rebates, and supplier agreements.
Build strategic supplier partnerships that deliver long-term value.
Identify opportunities to leverage purchasing scale, optimize product specifications, and improve food cost performance.
Develop contingency sourcing strategies and qualified secondary suppliers.
Monitor commodity markets, inflation, tariffs, and supply chain risks.
Own food cost performance by identifying opportunities to improve purchasing strategies, supplier negotiations, and product specifications.
Lead Actual vs. Theoretical (AvT) reporting and partner with Restaurant Operations to investigate variances and implement corrective actions.
Drive continuous food cost improvement through strategic sourcing, vendor negotiations, menu engineering support, and waste reduction initiatives.
Partner with Finance to negotiate commercial agreements that strengthen profitability.

Requirements

5+ years of experience in supply chain, strategic sourcing, procurement, or product commercialization within foodservice, restaurants, grocery, or CPG.
Proven success negotiating supplier agreements and food costs while maintaining quality and service.
Experience sourcing fresh ingredients, managing supplier relationships, and supporting new product launches.
Strong understanding of food cost management, inventory systems, and cross-functional collaboration.
Strong negotiation, commercial, and supplier relationship management skills.
Analytical mindset with experience using purchasing, inventory, and financial data to drive decisions.
Highly organized with excellent project management and communication skills.
Advanced Excel skills.
Experience with inventory or procurement systems (COGS-Well is an asset).
Collaborative, proactive, and solutions-oriented.
Balances strategic thinking with hands-on execution.
Committed to continuous improvement and operational excellence.

Skills

Supply chain management
Strategic sourcing
Procurement
Product commercialization
Supplier relationship management
Negotiation
Food cost management
Inventory systems
Project management
Communication
Excel
Sustainability
Nutrition
Local sourcing
Regenerative agriculture

Location

New York

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

5+ years

Salary/Compensations

$80,000–$120,000

About the Company

Impact Kitchen is a nutrition-focused restaurant & cafe serving breakfast, brunch, lunch & dinner, 100% free of gluten, refined sugars and seed oils.
Founded in Toronto in 2015, Impact Kitchen is the brainchild of personal trainer and nutrition expert Josh Broun, and M·A·C Cosmetics co-founder Frank Toskan.
Impact Kitchen fuels major league sports teams and top athletes through catering and culinary partnerships.
Our Values: Passionate & Purposeful, Impacting the Community, Building for the Future.
Our Culture: Impact Kitchen prides itself on creating an incredible environment for those inside and outside our organization. We think like a professional team and are always training for the championship.

Equal Opportunity

Impact Kitchen feeds a diverse community and is made stronger by a diverse team.
We welcome and encourage applications from our entire community equally.
As an Equal Opportunity Employer, the decision to hire is based solely on business needs, experience and future potential.
Hiring is not determined or influenced by any classification of an individual as protected by the laws that govern the region for which the prospective individual would work within.
This is true for all practices and policies within the employee journey/lifecycle.
Impact Kitchen supports alternative ways to interview and encourages applications from individuals with disabilities.
Should you require a reasonable accommodation, please indicate in your application.
Both Impact Kitchen management and the applicant share responsibility to communicate and reasonably accommodate.