Senior Sourcing Manager - Indirect

Summary

Join Vital Farms as a Senior Sourcing Manager – Indirect and play a key role in building a best-in-class sourcing strategy. Lead the strategic sourcing of indirect services, materials, and equipment, championing ethical practices and delivering sustainable value. This role requires implementing indirect sourcing best practices, transforming business processes, and supporting aggressive brand growth. You will optimize costs, improve service, reduce risk, and ensure supply reliability. Collaborate with cross-functional partners, identify and mitigate risks, and establish sourcing best practices. Act as a trusted advisor to business units, balancing innovation, cost optimization, and service excellence. Vital Farms offers a fast-paced, energetic, remote environment with competitive pay and benefits.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Business, Finance, or related field; or equivalent experience required
• 5+ years of progressive experience in indirect sourcing or procurement, ideally within a growth-stage or fast-paced company
• Ability to travel 20-25% for company meetings, onboarding trips and supplier meetings
• Experience developing and scaling processes, people, and systems to support fast-paced business growth
• Demonstrated change management, negotiation/influencing skills, and leadership experience
• Ability to work independently and as part of the greater team while effectively managing your time and competing priorities to meet and often exceed stakeholder expectations
• Strategic thinking with the willingness to roll up your sleeves and get into the details
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in contract development, negotiation, and execution
• An analytical mindset, but also the ability to apply art with science
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to bring your stakeholders along on the journey

Responsibilities

• Support an aggressively growing brand by leading the strategic sourcing of indirect services, materials, and equipment in accordance with our high ethical standards and stakeholder business model
• Lead change as we redefine the way we manage the strategic sourcing of indirect services, materials, and equipment
• Deliver value to the business by optimizing cost, improving service, reducing risk, and ensuring supply reliability
• Lead and support the evolution of Sourcing Systems and Processes within the Indirect and Shared Services strategic pillar of sourcing at Vital Farms
• Collaborate closely with cross-functional partners to understand business needs, define sourcing requirements, and drive aligned outcomes
• Identify and mitigate risk across critical indirect spend areas
• Drive cost savings, mitigate supply risk, and ensure continuity of supply while improving service levels and supplier performance
• Establish sourcing best practices across spend categories, building consistency and efficiency into sourcing workflows
• Act as a trusted advisor to business units, balancing innovation, cost optimization, and service excellence

Preferred Qualifications

• You’re no hero – You know the power of teamwork and celebrate the work of others before your own
• You give a sh*t – You believe in acting like an owner and making Vital Farms a place to be proud of
• You raise the standards – You know growth can be hard, but you strive to improve yourself and others each day
• You can walk in someone else’s boots – You seek to understand other’s viewpoints and think that you get to better answers by sitting on the same side of the table
• You don’t walk on eggshells – You’re not afraid to leave the bullsh*t behind and have honest conversations

Benefits

• Competitive pay and benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, and Paid Parental Leave, just to name a few)
• Generous retirement contributions: 401(k) + 3% Contribution from Day 1
• Annual bonus and equity grant (subject to business results and company approval)
• Free eggs and butter, along with friends and family discounts
• Fun team SWAG that will make you the talk of the town
• Professional development opportunities and an amazing team dedicated to your growth