Vice President, Packaging

BUILT ON FLAVOR. FUELED BY PEOPLE.

What’s it like to work at Kinder’s? Well, there’s a lot of snacking and geeking out over what we all cooked over the weekend. Beyond that, there’s also plenty of hard work. Because we don’t just like flavor, we’re obsessed with it.

With over 100 products sold nationwide, we’re now a top-five brand in multiple flavor categories at Costco, Walmart, Whole Foods, and more. We’re not your typical CPG company. Privately held and founder-led, we like to think of ourselves as a pirate ship in a sea of cruise ships . Our crew is adventurous and fearless. We chart our own course and chase big ideas to make food unforgettable.

As we expand globally and approach $1 billion in revenue, we need more smart-and-scrappy, flavor-obsessed people to come aboard. If you’re looking for a place where you can see the real impact of your work... this is it! Every day, you’ll be part of a journey to add flavor to millions of meals and lives.

How You'll Make an Impact at Kinder's

The Vice President, Packaging Sourcing & Procurement will lead Kinder’s enterprise sourcing and procurement strategy across all packaging categories, building the supplier network, commercial capabilities, and supply continuity plans required to support continued profitable growth.

As Kinder’s expands its portfolio, channels, innovation pipeline, and manufacturing network, this leader will create a scalable packaging procurement function that can support the speed of an entrepreneurial business and the complexity of a rapidly growing CPG company. The Vice President will have broad responsibility for category strategy, supplier selection and development, negotiations and contracting, cost and productivity, supplier performance, risk management, and packaging supply continuity.

Working across Packaging Engineering, R&D, Innovation, Operations, Planning, Quality, Supply Chain, Finance, and external manufacturing partners, this leader will ensure Kinder’s has the right packaging suppliers, materials, capacity, commercial agreements, and contingency plans to support both current operations and future growth.

The ideal candidate combines deep packaging-category knowledge with strong commercial judgment and enterprise leadership. They understand the supplier markets, manufacturing processes, cost drivers, and supply risks behind major packaging categories and can translate that knowledge into sourcing strategies that improve cost, service, quality, innovation, and resilience.

Key Responsibilities

Enterprise Packaging Sourcing & Procurement Strategy

Develop and lead Kinder’s enterprise sourcing and procurement strategy across all packaging materials and components.

Translate business plans, demand growth, innovation pipelines, and manufacturing requirements into long-term packaging category, supplier, capacity, and continuity strategies.

Establish multi-year sourcing roadmaps that balance cost, quality, service, innovation, sustainability, speed to market, and supply resilience.

Serve as the senior packaging sourcing subject-matter expert, advising executive and functional leaders on packaging markets, supplier capabilities, capacity constraints, commodity exposure, commercial risks, and opportunities.

Build scalable sourcing processes, procurement governance, category-management standards, contracting practices, and decision frameworks that create greater consistency and discipline as Kinder’s grows.

Maintain a strong external perspective on packaging markets, materials, converters, supplier capabilities, cost drivers, capacity trends, and industry developments.

Category Management & Supplier Strategy

Develop and execute comprehensive category strategies across corrugate, flexible films, rigid plastics, bottles, jars, closures, labels, cartons, and other packaging components.

Lead supplier identification, competitive bidding, negotiation, selection, contracting, onboarding, performance management, and development.

Establish a resilient and scalable supplier ecosystem capable of supporting Kinder’s growth, innovation pipeline, geographic footprint, service requirements, and quality expectations.

Evaluate suppliers based on capacity, capabilities, technology, geographic coverage, cost structure, financial health, lead times, service, quality, and continuity risk.

Determine the appropriate supplier strategy for each category, balancing consolidation, competitive tension, specialization, geographic coverage, and risk diversification.

Negotiate commercial agreements covering pricing, capacity commitments, service levels, lead times, payment terms, tooling, inventory arrangements, and other critical business requirements.

Build strategic relationships with key packaging manufacturers and converters to improve Kinder’s access to capacity, market intelligence, innovation, and emerging capabilities.

Establish supplier scorecards and business-review processes that create accountability for cost, quality, service, responsiveness, innovation, and continuous improvement.

Packaging Supply Continuity & Risk Management

Own packaging supply continuity strategy across Kinder’s supplier and manufacturing network.

Identify critical materials, sole-source exposure, capacity constraints, long lead times, geographic concentration, tooling dependencies, and other vulnerabilities that could disrupt production or customer service.

Develop dual-source, alternate-supplier, contingency, and inventory strategies for critical packaging components where appropriate.

Partner with Planning, Operations, Packaging Engineering, and suppliers to ensure packaging capacity and material availability support demand growth, new-product launches, promotional activity, and changes across Kinder’s internal manufacturing and co-manufacturing network.

Establish forward-looking supplier-capacity reviews and risk-monitoring processes that provide early visibility into potential constraints and disruptions.

Lead supplier escalation and recovery efforts when packaging availability, capacity, quality, or service issues threaten business continuity.

Ensure contracts and supplier agreements include appropriate protections, capacity commitments, continuity provisions, and performance expectations.

Build executive-level visibility into packaging supply risks, mitigation plans, and major supplier dependencies.

Cost, Productivity & Commercial Management

Own the packaging sourcing productivity agenda, identifying opportunities to reduce total cost while protecting quality, performance, service, supply continuity, and brand equity.

Build and deliver a multi-year productivity pipeline tied to measurable savings, margin improvement, supplier optimization, and working-capital opportunities.

Develop transparent packaging cost models that provide visibility into raw materials, conversion, freight, tooling, inventory, and other key cost drivers.

Monitor packaging commodity markets and supplier cost inputs, proactively identifying inflationary and deflationary trends and developing appropriate negotiation and risk-management strategies.

Lead competitive bids, supplier negotiations, contract renewals, and commercial reviews using market intelligence, clean-sheet thinking, and total cost of ownership.

Partner with Packaging Engineering and cross-functional teams to evaluate specification, material, format, and pack-configuration changes that may create cost or supply advantages.

Lead supplier, material, and sourcing evaluations using total cost of ownership and long-term strategic value rather than unit price alone.

Establish disciplined processes for validating, tracking, and reporting realized savings, cost avoidance, working-capital improvements, and other procurement value.

Cross-Functional Innovation & Supplier Partnership

Engage early in the innovation and commercialization process to identify capable