Sr. Manager, Supply Chain

About the Role

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.

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

A Day in the Life

• 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 (CapEx) 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.

Role Requirements

• Strategic Thinking: Ability to define long-term supply chain goals that align with company growth.
• Communication: Exceptional verbal and written communication skills to effectively collaborate with internal teams, suppliers, and senior management.
• Problem-Solving: Decisive and creative approach to resolving real-time supply chain disruptions (e.g., equipment failures, delivery delays, quality issues). Identify opportunities for cost reduction, process improvement, and risk mitigation.
• Ensure compliance: Adhere to company policies, procedures, and relevant industry regulations related to procurement and supply chain manager.
• 5+ years of experience in a supply chain role, ideally in the food industry and/or organics, or a combination of experience with a relevant degree (Business, Ag Business, Economics, Supply Chain Management).

What You Bring to the Team

• 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.
• Strong analytical skills for interpreting market data
• 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 regeneratively farmed land in the state and is committed to reducing its carbon footprint by lowering on-farm methane emissions, regenerative farming practices focused on soil health and packaging innovation. The first dairy in the US to become American Humane certified across all of its farms, Clover has delivered on its promise of producing the highest-quality dairy products — including milk, cheese, butter, and more — for more than a century. As a Certified B Corporation® Clover gives back 5% of net profits to help make nutritious food more accessible and uses its business as a power for good across its support for people, farms, animals, community and planet. For more information, please visit www.cloversonoma.com and join the conversation on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, and YouTube.

We appreciate your interest in Clover Sonoma!

Please direct all job-related inquiries to recruiting@cloversonoma.com, as we cannot accommodate phone inquiries. We are not working with outside agencies or recruiters at this time.

Clover Sonoma is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), age, disability, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. All applicants will be considered for employment without regard to these factors.