Global Supply Chain Manager

Company: Ambercycle
Location: Los Angeles
Posted on: May 16, 2022

Job Description:

About Us

Ambercycle is a material science company founded in 2015 to create a fashion industry without 'waste'. We're developing and scaling a breakthrough technology to manufacture yarns and fabrics from old clothes, without a sacrifice in quality, rather than from petroleum or new agriculture resources. Our apparel products avoid the use of new raw materials and go into the highest quality applications, exceeding the expectations of end customers with a fraction of the environmental footprint. Using our technology, we are fundamentally changing the fashion industry and building the infinite textile ecosystem. Ambercycle's first solution, cycora - is a premium fabric made from end-of-life textile waste. For more information, visit www.ambercycle.com.

Who You Might Be

You're a textbook people person, and move through life at a fast pace with a smile. Growth and success excite you, and you don't let obstacles slow you down. You're a team player; you understand that everyone has a part to play and for some reason or another people rally around you to champion your causes. You listen to your customers' as well as your team members' needs and take everything into account in order to move things along. Forward is the only direction you could ever conceive of moving. Charismatic, relatable, and positive are some of the words people use to describe you. You are the perfect mix of strategic, operational, analytical, and people skills. You love being in the weeds in ambiguous situations, figuring out processes, and implementing them. You are a clear, confident communicator who loves taking a complicated problem, decomposing it, building a compelling business case, and executing on it. You are comfortable in the field or at a meeting table, and like rolling up your sleeves to get things done.

The Job

As a part of the Sourcing and Procurement team, you will have an opportunity to exceed assigned pipeline and profit objectives, lead new business initiatives and processes, and work closely with Ambercycle other business functions in developing overall strategies within textile take-back and collection programs and services.

You will build Ambercycle's upstream supply chain from the ground up. You will work to source and scale collection of materials for Ambercycling--- into new goods, while ensuring effective decision-making and execution of our strategic priorities across the organization. You will engage domestic and international partners to develop and grow new partnerships. You will be involved in and take the lead on key projects such as supplier transactions or building new verticals of the collection and take-back business. The ideal candidate will be driven and will do what it takes to create the infinite textile ecosystem.

Responsibilities

Build growth strategy: Execute the local, domestic, and international sales strategy which includes defining clear objectives and challenging goals to drive program growth.
Business development to develop new relationships for materials procurement from individuals, businesses, and organizations.
Aggressively research, identify, qualify & target potential clients & develop access strategy to initiate contact.
Drive sales process leadership from contact through closing of deals both domestically and internationally.
Develop, negotiate, and optimize relationships with partners, service providers, and value chain participants to ensure efficient program execution.
Developing relationships with/selling to B2B clients.
Develop & maintain relationships at the higher levels of the customer and partner organization.
Exercise creativity and judgment in developing and evaluating sales and marketing strategies.
Develop and maintain sales budget for material collections deals, and work closely with operations to ensure success and growth across all channels.
Travel to various partner sites to identify customer specific needs and develop solutions to ensure business success.
Identify needs and develop customer specific solutions for those needs.
Utilize resources from across Ambercycle in order to design & deliver partner and customer desired outcomes.
Develop relationships with intermediaries to build pipeline of opportunities and awareness of capabilities.
Serve as an important cross-functional liaison between Ambercycle's commercial team and other departments including R&D, Marketing & Communications, Operations, Finance, and Legal.
Represent Ambercycle in the marketplace at various industry organizations and events.

Qualifications

Bachelors degree (or related) with 2+ years being a part of high-performance sales development organization.
A genuine interest and passion for creating the circular textile economy, ending textile 'waste', and making the world more sustainable.
Position requires flexibility to travel up to 50%, including overnight, primarily domestically but also internationally.
Competitive drive and determination with focus on results orientation.
Very strong team player, ability to work with cross-functional teams to get results.
Relentless positivity and a desire to be excellent.
Motivated self-starter who can solve problems and work well independently, and drive initiatives to completion without much oversight.
Can execute and thrive in a fast-paced, start-up environment with ability to learn quickly.
Has the "get-it-done" mentality, irrespective of the obstacles, with genuine passion for creating the infinite textile ecosystem.
Effectively use deliberate influence strategies to impact, shape, or re-direct the behaviors of others, without formal authority.
Proven success working independently and navigating in an ever changing and often chaotic (and exciting) high growth environment.
Must be comfortable in a fast-paced, open environment with minimal direction.
Must have a genuine desire and ability to develop new business and markets, and attend to customer and partner needs.
Ability to manage budget and constantly move a project forward.

Ambercycle is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Ambercycle is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

Position is full-time and based in Los Angeles, California

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