Supply Chain Associate

What is Cirkul?

Cirkul is a rapidly growing beverage technology company on a mission to make a healthier world by helping people enjoy drinking more water.

The team at Cirkul developed an innovative beverage delivery system that makes drinking more water delicious, fun, and personalized. The technology reduces the shipping weight of bottled beverages by 96% and uses 84% less plastic. Cirkul offers its customers 100+ unique flavors, all with no sugar, zero calories, no artificial colors, and a range of functional enhancements online, at Walmart, and other retailers across the United States. Hundreds of thousands of consumers are using Cirkul to transition from single-use plastics and sugar-filled beverages to healthier, better-for-you alternatives.

What is this role?

As a Supply Chain Associate, you will help Cirkul to develop and maintain strong relationships with our vendors. The Supply Chain Team must carefully balance our needs to reduce product costs and risks while ensuring high-performance, reliability, and continuity of supply. In this role, you will interact with members of our engineering, marketing, finance, and manufacturing teams to develop and execute production plans.

What does an average day look like?

• Driving Results: Negotiating with suppliers on cost and production plans to meet supply commitments Managing our material pipeline from upstream suppliers to contract manufacturers that support our in-house final assembly and fulfillment
• Taking Ownership: Manage new part tooling and equipment capacity budgeting, planning and bring up plans. Develop supply plans to optimize supplier allocations based on comprehensive audits of capacity, performance, and pricing.
• Making Decisions: Identify cost down opportunities, develop detailed business cases, and execute to proposed plans.
• Cultivating Relationships: Partner with the engineering team to improve specifications to ensure quality components and design for manufacturing.
• Instilling Trust: Provide frequent and concise updates to internal stakeholders on supply chain health.
• Customer Focus: Initiate and complete supplier audits to ensure their ability to meet part performance and on time delivery
  
  

What background should you have?

• Bachelor’s Degree in supply chain, engineering, business, or other relevant fields
• 2-5 years experience in supply chain and/or demand/production planning
• Proven ability to multitask effectively, managing multiple tasks and projects concurrently while ensuring the highest quality standards.
• Fluent in supply planning best practices
• Expertise in spreadsheets, database, and ERP software
• Ability to balance detailed component analysis with strategic supply planning
• Demonstrated ability to problem solve complex, real life, and situation problems.
• High standards for accuracy, precision and organization
• Extremely organized and able to coach others on organization
• Experience negotiating and holding suppliers accountable
• Excited to source, contact, and evaluate potential suppliers for quality, reliability, and capacity
• Demonstrated ability to work across organizational and functional boundaries
  
  

What do we offer?

• Competitive salary based on experience and market
• Generous benefits, 401k match, and PTO (even insurance for your fur babies!)
• Employee discounts on Cirkul products
• New corporate office space with great amenities
• Opportunity to work with a best in class team, in a hyper growth company, taking over the hydration industry
• A culture that rewards results
  
  

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Cirkul, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in hiring a diverse workforce and are committed to sustaining an equitable and inclusive, people-first environment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please download the available EEO is the Law & EEO is the Law Supplement documents.