Food Industry Ingredients Sourcing Manager

As a Food Industry Ingredients Sourcing Manager, your role is crucial: increase business velocity by ensuring rapid and stable access to strategic lateral flow repositories.
This position requires knowledge of industrial processes, food engineering, manufacturing best practices, and natural abilities in B2B strategy.

You will focus on the early stages of our supplier lifecycle, more specifically, mapping, prioritizing and sampling products. Being the first point of contact with suppliers, you must also perfectly position Hubcycle for future collaboration, while maintaining a down-to-earth approach with your industry suppliers.

Thus, the position includes mastering the negotiation process such as positioning, closing and B2B user experience in complex environments. Particular attention to supplier constraints will allow you to achieve your objectives.

This position involves great dedication to problem solving and excellent working relationships and requires being in constant communication with all of the company's teams to guarantee customer satisfaction and the achievement of objectives.

As an expert, you build loyalty and develop your supplier portfolio, you ensure the quality of deliverables and the development of your product portfolio.

The team around you

You will be supported by the Head of Sourcing for the sourcing technical aspects and the Global Category Manager for the product specificities & knowledge components. The team around you is also made of category experts who will provide you with all the knowledge and direction you need to be fully effective in a short period of time. Leveraging your teammates in sales, quality, product development, logistics or finance will also be key to success in this role.


About Hubcycle’s U.S. Subsidiary

Hubcycle is pleased to announce the launch of its new U.S. subsidiary, a strategic extension of our global mission to accelerate the circular economy for food ingredients.

This new entity is built on the foundation of an existing, agile business, enabling us to move quickly while maintaining a team of seasoned experts deeply connected to the U.S. market. The U.S. subsidiary operates with strong support from Hubcycle’s global headquarters in France, ensuring seamless integration with our worldwide operations and access to the company’s full network, infrastructure, and resources.

Hubcycle is backed by solid, long-term investors who share our commitment to innovation, sustainability, and growth. This strong financial foundation allows our U.S. operations to scale with confidence and purpose.

Importantly, the company’s founder and global leadership team are fully committed to empowering the U.S. organization. The local team will be entrusted with decision-making based on market realities and customer needs, ensuring Hubcycle’s U.S. growth is both responsive and locally driven—while benefiting from the strategic alignment and vision of the global brand.

Together, this structure creates the best of both worlds: entrepreneurial agility with global strength, positioning Hubcycle U.S. for sustainable success in a rapidly evolving market.

Who You Are

• You like challenges and aim high!
• Flexible and agile, you know what it takes to be part of a startup, an ever-changing environment.
• Autonomous, dedicated, humble, rigorous, proactive, detail-oriented. You know what “cut the crap” means.
• You’re efficient & business oriented -no BS, just solutions.
• Team player AND lone wolf: you own your projects but ask for help when needed.
• You are known for your interpersonal and customer service skills, even in highly stressful situations.

Must-Haves

• 4-10 years of experience in B2B sourcing food ingredients in one of our categories : Spices & Herbs, Juice Concentrates & Derivatives, Fruits, Vegetables & Derivatives,Vanilla…
• Superior (or exceptional) Sourcing/Tolling skills needed
• Education in agronomy is a strong asset but can be offset by solid technical knowledge gained through experience.
• You have a solid knowledge of the food industry, its practices, its lexicon and its key & underground players.
• You are used to the Art of Prospection, you master all tips & tricks of this game.

Nice-to-Haves

• You have a “circular economy mindset”
• You have already worked on by-products

You embody our core values

• Discernment
• Boldness
• Dedication to performance
• Communication
• Collaboration
• Pragmatism
• Integrity
  

Salary and conditions

• Contract : Permanent full-time
• Fully remote, travel to Chicago office as needed
• Salary: to be fine-tuned according to profile and experience + uncapped attractive bonus plan
• Start ASAP

Process

1. Interview with our Talent Acquisition Team
2. Interview “Deep Dive” with Head of People and Line Manager
3. Interview with our C-suite
4. Physical meeting with President (USA Region) to review sample box

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 at war against that. We turn industrial waste into sexy B2B ingredients to make our food system more sober. We reinvent the industrial value chain by creating ingredients 100% made from unused resources. We purchase side-streams (byproducts) and turn them into competitive ingredients that we sell, with no compromise on quality.

Side-streams - typical examples :
Cocoa shells, Black pepper skins, deoiled / spent spices are obvious ones. But you might be curious to know how we have found coriander seeds and even saffron as a waste of some industries too. Wasting them is nonsense, and we need you to help us.