US Production and Supply Chain Manager

Something & Nothing is disrupting the global soda category with a range of award-winning Premium Sodas designed for the modern conscious consumer. Our beverages are available in the US, UK, and Europe, and can be found in the world's best retailers, hotels, cafes and restaurants.

To support our growth in the US we are looking for someone to own our American supply chain end to end: production at our co-packer, our warehouses, our logistics, US materials sourcing, and US compliance. This is the role that makes our US scale-up physically possible. Our co-packer is in Middlebury, Vermont, and you will be on site there for six to eight production runs a year, so roughly once every four to eight weeks.

Our Pennsylvania warehouse in Montgomeryville is a less frequent trip. Being based in the Northeast is an advantage, but it isn't a requirement if you can get to Vermont reliably.

You’re a hands-on operator who is as comfortable on a production line as you are in a spreadsheet. You’ve run co-packed production; you know what can go wrong on a run, and you know how to stop it from happening twice.

You thrive in fast-moving environments and enjoy the puzzle of aligning co-packers, suppliers, warehouses and timelines to make things run beautifully. You think in systems but act pragmatically, and you’re comfortable owning a region on your own. You reach for AI tools to extend what one person can cover, because a role this broad rewards it.

Job titles aren’t what drive you. You’re motivated by ownership, impact, and the chance to build a US supply chain rather than inherit one.

• Own the relationship with Green Mountain Beverages, our co-packer in Vermont.
• Attend all or most US production runs on site. We are currently planning six to eight US runs a year.
• Build US production schedules from the demand forecast owned by our CFO, to group method and standards.
• Own yield, waste, run performance and the product quality standards held at our co-packer, and resolve issues as they arise.
• Source all US non-ingredient materials, buying against the group deals negotiated by our Global Sourcing lead.
• Own US supplier lead times, MOQs and purchase orders in Unleashed.
• Own a component readiness view against every US production date and report it at fortnightly S&OP.
• Feed US labelling and regulatory requirements to our designers and creative co-founder, who own master artwork.

• Own the relationships with our warehouses in Pennsylvania and California.
• Own US stock accuracy, conduct regular stock takes, and share a weekly US stock report.
• Ensure stock is in the right place at the right time for both coasts.

• Own relationships with our US Freight broker and carriers.
• Own the US OTIF delivery KPI.
• Review logistics costs and find efficiencies across cost, carbon emissions and customer lead time.
• Run damages, returns and exceptions monitoring for the US.

• Own US customs and import documentation, including inbound chilled ingredients from our UK supplier.

• Own US compliance and regulatory processes, including federal labelling requirements, Proposition 65 and state packaging and recycling laws.
• Own the process that gets each US label version signed off as legally correct before it goes to print, with external specialist support where needed.

• Execute the product improvement plan in the US and feed US findings into the global plan.

• Joint lead on reviewing our ingredient supplier and building the case for expanding or moving to a global supplier.
• Assess and, when volume triggers it, appoint a second US co-packer.
• Assess and, when volume warrants, add US warehousing…