Sr. Manager, Supply Chain

Do you have a passion working in Supply Chain to drive strategic planning, execution and oversight of Clover Sonoma’s entire end-to-end supply chain? Be part of a team that will use your Supply Chain expertise to optimize efficiency, ensure the highest standards of customer service and reliability, minimize costs, and maintain a seamless flow of fresh dairy products to meet customer demand and support the company’s growth strategy.

This role will serve as the primary liaison between Manufacturing/Warehouse Operations and Sales/Commercial teams.

As a purpose-driven, certified B corporation, Clover is leading the way for conscious businesses by demonstrating care for all stakeholders and moving the world forward. We are committed to lowering our environmental impact and meeting our sustainability targets, by providing kids and adults with healthy, nutritious, and delicious products that are made with care for animals, people, and the planet.

Salary Range: $136,000 – $145,000 annually DOE

• Primary liaison between Manufacturing/Warehouse Operations and Sales/Operations teams: Serve as the main point of contact and communication hub between the manufacturing plant, warehouse/logistics, and the sales and commercial operations teams. Provide real-time product availability status and inventory reports to the Sales team, collaborating to resolve immediate fulfillment issues and prioritize deliveries. Directly influence and optimize the production scheduling process to ensure manufacturing runs efficiently, minimizes changeover time, and successfully meets fluctuating customer and retail demand.
  
  Lead daily huddles and weekly coordination meetings with key stakeholders to review performance, address bottlenecks, and finalize short-term plans.
• Long-Range Capacity Planning: Develop and maintain a 3-5 year supply chain capacity model encompassing production lines, warehousing, distribution fleet, and co-manufacturing capabilities. Regularly update this model based on projected sales growth (250 million to 300 million+) and product innovation pipelines.
• Capital Expenditure (Cap Ex) Planning: Partner with the VP of Operations and Finance to forecast and justify capital expenditures for supply chain infrastructure improvements, such as new processing equipment, expanded cold storage, or technology upgrades, ensuring the supply chain can support the scale of a growing premium dairy brand.
• New Product Introduction (NPI) Support: Collaborate closely with the Marketing and R&D teams to define the supply chain requirements for all new product introductions (NPIs). Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Production, Finance, and Quality Assurance to align demand forecasts, production schedules, and inventory targets.
• Analyze supply chain data (e.g., procurement costs, on-time delivery, inventory turns, waste/spoilage rates) to identify bottlenecks, risks, and opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Establish and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) for the entire supply chain to the executive team.
• Oversee the effective use of the Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system (SAP) for production planning, inventory management, and reporting.

• Technical
  
  Skills:
  
  Deep knowledge of cold chain logistics and inventory control best practices. Proficiency with major ERP systems ( SAP or others). Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel is mandatory, including the ability to build, maintain, and utilize complex data models, pivot tables, VLOOKUPs, and conditional formatting for forecasting, capacity modeling, and cost-to-serve analysis.
• Key soft skills encompass excellent communication, strong negotiation and relationship-building abilities, organizational skills for managing multiple priorities, and effective problem-solving and decision-making
• Professional certifications in Supply Chain Management (e.g., APICS, CIPS) preferred

About Clover Sonoma

Based in Petaluma, California, in the heart of beautiful Sonoma County, Clover Sonoma offers high quality dairy sourced from its network of local family farms. A pioneer in sustainable dairy farming Clover has the largest organic acreage of…