About your team and position:

The Procurement Operations Associate supports the Strategic Sourcing Management function by overseeing day-to-day purchasing activities, ensuring compliance with company policies, and optimizing the procurement processes to achieve cost efficiency and timely delivery. As the subject matter expert for the inbound supply chain, this role will partner closely with various internal stakeholders, including Procurement, Supply Planning, Finance, Quality Food Safety and Research and Development.

This role reports to our Strategic Sourcing Manager and will be joining a highly talented team. While this role may work remotely, the expectation is that you are willing to travel to our Cleveland HQ office about once per month.

Your day-to-day:

• Execute against sourcing strategies for assigned categories as dictated by the Strategic Sourcing Manager.
• Manage the PO process from beginning to end.
• Engage with Demand Planning to optimize raw and pack inventory levels.
• Facilitate the relationship between Quality Food Safety and suppliers to quickly and efficiently resolve quality concerns.
• Ensure a smooth launch for new product releases, ensuring the right material is at the right location at the right time.
• Recommend efficiencies and opportunities to drive down supply chain costs.
• Utilize data to track supplier delivery performance.

We'd love to hear from you if you have:

• Associate’s degree in business or science-related discipline (minimum requirement)
• Bachelor’s degree in business, supply chain or science related role (preferred)
• 1 year of experience in supply chain role, direct raw materials experience strongly preferred.
• Experience working cross functionally in diverse teams.
• Knowledge of supply chain processes and ability to implement frameworks in new product categories.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills (verbal and written) with the ability to engage at a variety of levels within the organization.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving.
• Data analysis.
• Sense of urgency coupled with attention to detail.
• Collaboration across cross-functional teams.

Why Join Us?

• Unlimited PTO – we trust you to take the time you need.
• Equity program – a chance to own part of the company!
• 401k plan with employer match – invest in your future.
• Annual work-from-home stipend – set up your workspace for success.
• Competitive Medical, Dental, Vision plans – company covers 80%.
• Sundays subscription for your pup! – because we care about your furry friends.
• Parental leave & PAWrental leave – support for growing families, both human and pet.
• Discounted pet insurance – keep your pets happy and healthy.

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To protect yourself, please note:

• We do not conduct interviews over Microsoft Teams.
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About Sundays for Dogs

Sundays for Dogs is a founder-led, direct-to-consumer brand reimagining pet food so dog owners can spend more quality time with their dogs — now and later. We make human-grade, air-dried food that supports long, healthy lives, and we build our company around shared core values that guide how we work and how we treat each other.

We’re headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, with a primarily remote team of ~50 full-time employees across the U.S. While we work distributed day to day, we come together in person on a quarterly basis because relationships matter. Our business today is 100% DTC, with our subscription model at the core of how we serve customers — and we’re building to scale with intention. We’re just getting started...