Contract Manufacturing Manager H/F - Hubcycle

Our company :

30% of global agricultural raw materials end up as wasted resources. In other words, 6% of our global carbon emissions are generated for nothing. That's IT.

At Hubcycle, we are hacking the food industry by transforming overlooked by-products into competitive ingredients. Our approach challenges conventional supply chains, demanding boldness, huge commitment to performance, pragmatism, and collaboration. This should never prevent us to deliver the highest food safety standards though. We act as professionals, always.

We believe a great workplace is about working alongside exceptional people who push us forward. We cultivate a culture of excellence, ownership, and impact, ensuring that each person at Hubcycle contributes meaningfully to our mission.

This requires creativity, resilience, and a hunger to challenge the norm. We are not here to play IT safe; we are here to build a company that changes how the world sources food.

Side-streams - typical examples :

Fruit pomaces, seeds and akenes are obvious ones. But you might BE curious to know how we have found concentrated juices and fruit powder as a waste of some industries too. Wasting them is nonsense. We can't keep wasting thousands of tons of such resources.You will BE our next Contract Manufacturing Manager. We visited many manufacturing sites to confirm there are indeed some tremendous things to do. Now, IT's confirmed that IT is ready to grow, and grow big. We are now developing teams of experts to do IT way bigger, way faster, and way better than ever before. So we want you to turn the sourced by-products into competitive ready-to-sell ingredients.

We feel that we are doing something huge, but we are at the beginning of IT. This is a unique opportunity to take responsibility from the beginning, and push IT with no limits.
As of today, two thirds of our product flows require manufacturing, as well from our direct providers as form a third parts manufacturer. To BE clear, we do not operate the manufacturing of our product, and we want to keep IT this way.

Working closely with all Global Category Managers, your day to day will BE more or less as follow :
- Build and develop new partnerships with current providers and manufacturing third parts, while reinforcing existing ones as well with
- Strategic and tactical planning execution for Contract Manufacturing sources,
- Proactively manage CM execution and planning to support mid to high volume manufacturing,
- Manage Direct Order fulfillment process and customer commit dates,
- Risk mitigation, including Excess and Obsolescence management,
- Development and execution of outsourced assemblies and strategic component alternate sourcing plans
- Identify and collaborate on Supplier Management initiatives (Material Management, Lead-time reduction, Cost reductions)
- Identify and implement improvements to the Outsourcing and Contract Manufacturing process that enhance Customer Satisfaction, accelerate Supply Chain ramp to volume, reduce Cost and closely monitor Inventory levels
- Negotiate and manage strategic Supply and Service agreements with contract manufacturing
- Ensure effective 360 degree communication and cross-functional support for day-to-day issue management
- Support/Conduct supply chain, strategic vendor and CM communications for multiple locations - status and report to executive management

We expect you to manage projects around toll and manufacturing management, to animate and develop a worldwide network of activable partners to anticipate tomorrow's scale, and BE cost saving minded while selecting the most suited player. As a CM, you will BE the cornerstone of our activity, transforming the rough gems spotted by our Sourcing team into high-quality ready to sell ingredients for our Sales team. You can count on us to push you to deliver the best version of yourself. And we expect you to push us to become a better version of Hubcycle. We will always care about your opinion & vision on the market.

The team around you :

Reporting to the Head of Supply Manager/Logistic Manager, you will benefit from his/her expertise within the job, but also from our Product Managers providing you with the best Tips&Tricks on the job specificities and technicalities.

You will have close exchanges with Sourcing and Sales teams to help you to understand specificities of their role based on side-streams products, and the impact you may have on each other's performances.

Skills needed :

We are looking for someone who will have both-short & long-term impact. Being able to adapt to a start-up is important.

Fondamental :
- At least 5 to 7 years of experience in Manufacturing Management, as well as internal as external (toll management) in the food industry is a must to achieve our goals.
- Your strong track record in Project Management, taught you how to handle industrial cross processing.
- You know the specificities of toll manufacturing of spices, herbs, vanilla, and other plant based row materials (sieving, grinding, concentration, column extraction, distillation, refining...)
- Ability to understand clients needs, and convert them into specific guidelines.
- You have already been working under GFSI certification (BRC, IFS, ISO, FSCC...),
- Fluent in both French and English. Any other language is great.

Bonus :
- Similarly to a Sales and Souring person, you like to hunt for new partners and negotiate best deals,
- You have a certain circular economy mindset,
- You have already worked around by-products,
- Having already developed similar ingredients (based on by-products.) is a huge bonus.

We understand all that might sound very specific. Even if you are not checking all the boxes, but believe you can bring value to our mission, please reach out to us.

Conditions :
- Contrat : CDI - Permanent
- Starting date : ASAP.
- Localisation : Based in Avignon (Your chance to live in Provence - France).
- home office : 2 days a week maximum, after the first month.
- Salary : from 35K€ to 40K€ gross salary / year + uncapped bonus based on both company and individual results.

Why us :
- You will have a huge positive impact : Both on us (Hubcycle), and on the planet. The more you sell, the more carbon you save (about 5tons of CO2 saved per ton of ingredient). We hope we are the first to give you this opportunity.
- We are the biggest Upcycled Food Ingredient supplier : Already validated at scale by key clients & suppliers (>2000 tons sold).
- Break the legacy : Our food system is not optimized, that's a huge problem, and now you can BE part of solving IT.
- Values : We are pragmatic & humble, no start-up bullshit here. Yet we are bold and aim for peak performance.

The hiring process :
- First meeting : 30mins, content : Your background, experience & motivation.
- Second meeting : 60mins, content : Deep dive questions & scorecard.
- Third meeting : 60mins, content : Management team meeting
- Fourth & last meeting : Café-Chouquette meeting, on site with part of the team