What is Cirkul?
Cirkul is a rapidly growing beverage technology company on a mission to make a healthier world by helping people enjoy drinking more water.
The team at Cirkul developed an innovative beverage delivery system that makes drinking more water delicious, fun, and personalized. The technology reduces the shipping weight of bottled beverages by 96% and uses 84% less plastic. Cirkul offers its customers 100+ unique flavors, all with no sugar, zero calories, no artificial colors, and a range of functional enhancements online, at Walmart, and other retailers across the United States. Hundreds of thousands of consumers are using Cirkul to transition from single-use plastics and sugar-filled beverages to healthier, better-for-you alternatives.
- Driving Results: Improving vendor output, improving lead time and reducing cost.
- Taking Ownership: Identifying how Supply Chain improvements can positively impact the success of Cirkul.
- Making Decisions: Assessing the situation, developing a strategy, and executing quickly.
- Cultivating Relationships: Consistently developing and leveraging strong internal and external relationships.
- Instilling Trust: Consistent and dependable execution.
- Customer Focus: Improving our product, improving our landed cost, and bringing new products to market faster.
- International sourcing experience in China with a focus on plastic and metal components, navigating fast timelines, integrating with engineering to understand product details.
- Negotiating with suppliers on cost and production plans to meet supply commitments.
- Manage new product, parts, tooling and equipment capacity ramp up plans.
- Develop supply plans to optimize supplier allocations based on comprehensive audits of capacity, performance, and pricing.
- Identify cost down opportunities, develop detailed business cases, and execute to proposed plans.
- Provide frequent and concise updates to internal stakeholders on Supply Chain health.
- Initiate and complete vendor selection to ensure their ability to meet part performance and on time delivery for new products
- Lead the supplier selection process with inputs from cross functional teams.
- Develop quarterly supplier performance metrics, KPIs for continuous improvement.
- Manage, mentor and develop the growing Supply Chain team.
- 5-8 years of experience in a Supply Chain role with experience leading a team.
- Ability to balance detailed analysis with strategic planning.
- Experience negotiating and holding suppliers accountable.
- Tenacious problem solving skills and excellent communication.
What do we offer?
- Competitive salary based on experience and market
- Generous benefits, 401k match, and PTO (even insurance for your fur babies!)
- Employee discounts on Cirkul products
- New corporate office space with great amenities
- Opportunity to work with a best in class team, in a hyper growth company, taking over the hydration industry
- A culture that rewards results
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Cirkul, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe in hiring a diverse workforce and are committed to sustaining an equitable and inclusive, people-first environment. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, or disability status. If you'd like more information about your EEO rights as an applicant under the law, please download the available EEO is the Law & EEO is the Law Supplement documents.