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Procurement Lead

Hungryroot is an AI-powered online grocery service that delivers personalized healthy groceries, simple recipes, and supplements to help customers save time, eat well, and reduce food waste.

Hungryroot

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About Us

Hungryroot is using AI to build the most consumer-centric food and wellness company to ever exist. We act as your personal assistant for healthy living—getting to know your goals, lifestyle, and budget, and recommending and delivering healthy groceries, easy recipes, and essential supplements for you and your family.

It’s the easiest way to eat healthy, achieve your goals, save time, and discover new foods. We believe food is the foundation of health, convenience should not mean compromise, and that everyone is unique in how they eat and live. That’s why we’re building a future in which healthy living is both easy and enjoyable.

About the role

Hungryroot is seeking a Procurement Lead to build and operationalize a centralized procurement function. This is a contracted role (6–12 months) with potential for full-time conversion. You'll own vendor spend, sourcing strategy, and procurement infrastructure across the business, partnering closely with Finance and business leaders. We are looking for meaningful cost savings in technology and marketing and displacement of spend with AI solutions within the first 6 months of the contract.

Responsibilities

  • Drive vendor consolidation, pricing normalization, and contract discipline
  • Own enterprise-wide vendor spend visibility, sourcing, and negotiation
  • Establish procurement workflows and approval processes, as necessary, without slowing down the business
  • Partner with FP&A to integrate savings into budgeting and forecasting
  • Over time, develop supplier performance metrics and ongoing vendor management

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of experience in procurement, strategic sourcing, or supply/vendor management
  • Proven track record of delivering cost savings and operational improvements at scale
  • Strong negotiation, contract management, and stakeholder management skills
  • Experience partnering with Finance/FP&A on budgeting, forecasting, and ROI analysis
  • Ability to build processes and teams in a high-growth environment
  • Strong analytical skills with comfort working across spend data and vendor economics
  • Experience in consumer, e-commerce, food, or high-growth operating environments is preferred
  • Prior leadership experience building a procurement function from the ground up is a plus

The employer will not sponsor applicants for work visas.

Our mission to help make healthy eating easy, accessible, and joyful is better served by a diverse workplace. We are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building an inclusive workplace. We have zero-tolerance for harassment or discrimination. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected class.

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8 years minimum

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Open to candidates from all countries.

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Worldwide

About Hungryroot

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Hungryroot is an AI-powered online grocery service designed to make healthy eating easy, personal, and sustainable for its customers. Many people face the challenge of wanting to eat healthier but lack the time for extensive meal planning, grocery shopping, and cooking. Hungryroot addresses this by getting to know each customer's unique preferences, lifestyle, budget, and health objectives. Through a detailed quiz covering tastes and daily routines, the platform gathers over 100 explicit data points per customer, enabling its AI to curate a personalized grocery plan. This plan includes recommended groceries, simple recipes, and even essential supplements, aiming to help customers feel their best. The service inverts the traditional shopping experience; instead of starting with an empty cart, customers begin with a full cart of healthy groceries and recipes that they can then edit. This approach significantly reduces the time and stress associated with meal preparation, helps users achieve their health goals, discover new foods, and save money by reducing food waste and reliance on takeout.

The company was founded in 2015 with the belief that food is the foundation of health and that convenience shouldn't mean compromising on quality or personal needs. Initially, Hungryroot operated as a packaged food company offering a small line of healthy products. However, responding to customer demand for a more comprehensive solution, it pivoted in 2019 to become an AI-driven online grocery delivery service. Today, Hungryroot offers over 600 groceries that meet a high-quality 'Root Standard' – free of artificial sweeteners, colors, preservatives, partially hydrogenated oils, and high-fructose corn syrup – and over 6,000 chef-crafted recipes. These recipes are designed to be nutritious, easy to follow, and typically take 10 minutes or less to prepare. Hungryroot supports over 25 dietary restrictions and preferences, more than many competitors in the industry, catering to needs such as vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free, and high-protein diets. By leveraging AI, Hungryroot not only personalizes the customer experience but also optimizes its operations to minimize food waste, contributing to a more sustainable and economical way of grocery shopping.

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401(K)

Hungryroot offers a 401(K) plan.

Remote work program

Hungryroot supports remote work.

Life insurance

Hungryroot offers life insurance.

Paid holidays

Hungryroot provides paid holidays.

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