Manager, Supply Chain Business Partner

Manager, Supply Chain Business Partner

Ocean Spray is hiring for a Manager, Supply Chain Business Partner! We're a team of farmers, thinkers, creators, and doers. Whatever your title, whatever your role — it always comes back to this: we're a farmer-owned co-op where everyone rolls up their sleeves to get the job done. Three maverick farmers started it all — and we've been making our own way ever since.

The Manager, Supply Chain Business Partner, supports the USA Foods & Beverage Ecosystem businesses, executing commercialization plans that translate commercial strategy into executable, value-creating supply chain outcomes for an assigned brand, category, or customer portfolio. This role orchestrates cross-functional teams to ensure end-to-end supply readiness for new product launches, base business strategies, product/pack/portfolio changes, and capacity/capability planning for Foods & Beverage Ecosystem.

The Manager supports medium-term demand and capacity analysis and partners closely with Contract Manufacturing and Network Optimization teams without having direct oversight of those functions.

Alignment & Planning

• Own day-to-day coordination of assigned Food and Beverage Ecosystem launches, promotions, and portfolio changes from concept through postlaunch stabilization.
• Facilitate stage-gate deliverables; ensure readiness across Planning, Manufacturing, Logistics, Quality, Procurement, and Customer Operations.
• Prepare inputs to S&OP/IBP for the Food and Beverage portfolio; ensure demand, supply, and financial alignment.
• Maintain a 12–18 month look-ahead for capacity signals with Supply and Production Planning; identify constraints and trigger options analysis.
• Support scenario planning (e.g., mix shifts, step-up volumes, alternate pack/plant options) and document trade-offs for leadership decisions.

Cross-Functional Coordination

• Serve as the primary day-to-day supply chain interface for Marketing, Sales, Finance, R&D, Packaging, Manufacturing, Engineering, Quality, and Customer Operations for Food and Beverage Ecosystem.
• Coordinate specifications, BOMs, routings, labeling/packaging readiness, and regulatory/quality requirements with functional owners.
• Support PMO with operating cadence (project standups, risk reviews, stakeholder updates) and publish clear action lists and owners.

Data, Analytics & Reporting

• Leverage ERP and planning systems (e.g., SAP, IBP/APO) and advanced Excel/analytics to inform recommendations.
• Partnership with Manufacturing (Internal & Coman)
• Coordinate with Plants, Corporate Supply Chain & Contract Manufacturing leaders on timelines, MOQ/lead-time, qualification activities, and change control for Food/Beverage items.
• Provide volume/mix forecasts and readiness inputs; support make-vs-buy and sourcing recommendations with data as requested.
• Track partner readiness and escalate risks; final sourcing decisions and supplier performance management remain with CM leadership.

Partnership with Network Optimization

• Supply portfolio inputs (demand signals, service targets, constraints) to network studies impacting Food and Beverage.
• Support implementation of network changes (item/plant moves, DC cutovers, inventory rebalancing) for the assigned Food and Beverage portfolio.
• Coordinate change management, customer communication milestones, and cutover risk mitigation with functional owners.

Standards, Governance & Continuous Improvement

• Drive continuous improvement and Lean/Six Sigma problem solving to reduce timeline slippage and variability.
• Contribute to the maturation of the Commercialization pillar (tools, templates, best practices).

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Operations Management, or Business.
• 5–7+ years of supply chain experience (CPG or similar high-velocity environment preferred), including exposure to commercialization/NPI.
• Working knowledge of integrated planning, inventory management, manufacturing flow (internal and external), logistics, and customer operations.
• Demonstrated project management skills with the ability to influence without formal authority.
• Proficiency with ERP and planning systems (e.g.,…