Manager, Beverage Operations & Quality Boston

Bevi is on a mission to transform how beverages are delivered and consumed. Our smart hydration systems eliminate the need for single‑use bottles and cans—making it easy, fun, and sustainable to stay hydrated. As the category leader in IoT‑enabled beverage technology, we’re building a future where Bevi machines are everywhere people live, work, and connect. We’ve raised over $160 M in venture capital, serve thousands of customers across the US, Canada, UK and Ireland, and have been rapidly growing year over year—saving over 1 billion bottles from waste.

In addition to driving hypergrowth with our current product line, Bevi is heavily investing in new product development.

Bevi is seeking a Manager, Beverage Operations & Quality to lead the team responsible for delivering safe, consistent, high‑quality beverage products produced at our co‑packers. This role oversees Bevi’s beverage production network end‑to‑end and manages a team including our Beverage Quality Manager and Senior Beverage Process Engineer.

In this role, you’ll drive operational excellence, strengthen our food safety and quality systems, and help scale production capabilities as our beverage portfolio grows.

• Lead and develop the beverage operations team (Quality + Process Engineering), including people management, performance management, setting priorities, ensuring alignment across functions, and fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.
• Own performance at Bevi’s beverage co‑packers
  , responsible for team overseeing day‑to‑day production execution, onsite audits, yield and throughput performance, adherence to specifications, and corrective action plans, ultimately owning the health of the production lines.
• Drive strategy and NPI roadmap execution
  , partnering with R&D to define and implement processes, standards, and systems that enable a high volume of new product launches to scale efficiently while maintaining quality, safety, and speed‑to‑market.
• Oversee process engineering and continuous improvement
  , drive scale‑up of new products, optimization of existing manufacturing processes, and structured root‑cause problem‑solving (RCA/8D/DMAIC). Develop multi‑year improvement roadmaps focused on increasing throughput and reliability at co‑packers, including identifying automation opportunities, leading trials and validations, and mapping capital or line‑modification projects needed to meet Bevi’s future production and capacity goals.
• Strengthen food safety and quality programs
  , including supplier documentation, recall readiness, regulatory compliance, ongoing audits, retain programs, and trend analysis to ensure products meet all safety and quality requirements.
• Own subtier supplier and flavor house performance
  , including managing issues with raw materials, flavors, packaging components, and driving corrective actions, testing, and validation of any changes impacting beverage quality or manufacturability.
• Partner closely with R&D, Supply Chain, and Product
  , ensuring smooth commercialization of new beverages, effective transfer of formulas and processes, and fast, data‑driven scale‑up of production.
• Report production and quality KPIs
  , highlight risks, and communicate improvement plans and co‑packer performance to senior leadership.

• 7‑10+ years of experience in beverage or food manufacturing, including hands‑on work with co‑packers or external manufacturers.
• Experience leading teams in quality, process engineering, or manufacturing operations.
• Strong knowledge of FDA regulations, HACCP programs, food safety systems, and supplier quality management.
• Depth in process improvement, FMEA, SPC, process validation, and structured problem‑solving methodologies.
• Excellent communication and relationship‑building skills, with the ability to influence internal stakeholders and external partners.
• Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Food Science, or related field.
• Ability to be in‑office 4–5 days per week.
• Willingness to travel up to 20%, mostly domestic travel with occasional opportunity to travel to UK facility.

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