Sr. Sourcing Manager, Contract Manufacturing
PendulumSan Francisco, Canada
Full Time
Posted September 24, 2026
$163k - $181k
Power Generation
Remote
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- Open in the current public read path; this is not an employer guarantee.Last observed September 28, 2026
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- Employer-provided pay
Job Description
Pendulum® is leading a revolution that is occurring around the world to improve physical and mental health by first understanding, then restoring and enhancing the human microbiome.
Key Responsibilities
- Own category strategy and commercial relationships for Pendulum's contract manufacturers across blending, encapsulation, bottling, labeling, cartoning, and related finished-goods operations.
- Develop a clear supplier network strategy that balances capability, quality, capacity, service, cost, speed, and business continuity.
- Lead supplier identification, diligence, selection, qualification, contracting, onboarding, transfers, and ongoing commercial management, including in connection with our active fill-and-finish CMO RFP.
- Negotiate pricing, payment terms, capacity commitments, lead times, inventory liability, service levels, change controls, and long-term agreements.
- Build and maintain contingency plans, m options, and capacity pathways that support growth and reduce concentration risk.
- Build transparent should-cost models that separate raw material and packaging pass-throughs from labor, overhead, equipment, yield loss, scrap, testing, freight, and supplier margin.
- Use open-book costing, market benchmarks, production assumptions, and on-site observations to deliver best-in-class COGS and validate proposed price changes.
- Create fact-based negotiation strategies and deliver measurable savings without compromising quality, service, or supply continuity.
- Partner with Finance and Supply Planning to translate forecasts, volumes, run sizes, and product mix into accurate cost and capacity scenarios.
- Understand how supplier facilities actually run, including material flow, production scheduling, staffing, equipment constraints, line speeds, yields, changeovers, maintenance, quality holds, and warehouse operations.
- Map end-to-end manufacturing processes and identify bottlenecks, handoff failures, excess handling, avoidable downtime, and other sources of cost or lead-time variation.
- Apply industrial engineering fundamentals such as cycle-time analysis, capacity modeling, line balancing, labor-content analysis, value-stream mapping, and constraint management.
- Develop joint improvement roadmaps with suppliers and track actions through implementation, verified results, and sustained performance.
- Spend time on the production floor to validate assumptions, investigate issues, and build practical solutions with supplier operations teams.
- Serve as the primary commercial relationship owner for assigned contract manufacturers and build productive relationships from the executive team to plant-level operations.
- Establish clear expectations, governance, scorecards, and business reviews covering quality, delivery, cost, responsiveness, inventory, capacity, and continuous improvement.
- Identify performance gaps early, align suppliers on root causes and corrective actions, and escalate decisively when commitments are at risk.
- Hold suppliers accountable while building collaborative, long-term partnerships that support innovation, scale, and mutual value creation.
- Partner closely with Quality, Regulatory, Product, R&D, Supply Planning, Packaging, Logistics, and Finance to translate business requirements into executable supplier plans.
- Lead sourcing and supplier-readiness workstreams for product launches, site transfers, packaging changes, scale-ups, and other manufacturing transitions.
- Communicate risks, tradeoffs, decisions, and recovery plans clearly to cross-functional teams and senior leadership.
- Create the tools, operating rhythms, and decision frameworks needed to improve supplier visibility, accountability, and execution.
- Step into urgent or ambiguous problems, determine what is needed, and drive the right people to a decision and completed outcome.
Benefits & Perks
- $162,900 - $181,000
- Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Commuter Benefits
- Life & STD Insurance
- Company match on 401 (k)
- Flexible Time Off (FTO)
- Equity
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