How many times in your career do you have the chance to create a ubiquitous consumer brand, build an entirely new supply chain, and change a big part of the food system? Our mission is more critical than ever. More people are looking for ways to purchase high quality food products, without leaving their home, and we are an important part of that food supply chain. Additionally, our marketplace allows our farmers and ranchers a vehicle for getting their proteins into the homes of consumers across America, thus helping them to continue their life's work and sustain their farms. 

Crowd Cow is a mission-driven startup founded in 2015 with the idea that the most important of food purchases – beef and other proteins – deserves to be associated with high-quality practices, total transparency, and close connection to the independent family farms producing the food. The Crowd Cow model isn’t the norm: In this country, 84% of beef comes from industrialized and factory processes that don’t benefit consumers, small-scale farmers or animals.

Today, Crowd Cow offers the most convenient and direct way to purchase from independent and family-owned farms, giving American consumers access to a world of craft beef more diverse and flavorful than most people realize. We’re also creating opportunities for the very best independent producers to reach more customers and to showcase their unique traditions in ways never possible via the internet. Crowd Cow has raised significant investment and has been featured in leading publications including the New York Times, the TODAY Show, Food & Wine, Forbes, the Guardian and more.
In today's current environment, our mission is more critical than ever. Our business continues to thrive, as more people need access to high quality meats and seafoods, without having to leave their homes. Our model also allows farmers and ranchers a way to continue getting their product into America's food supply chain.

About this Role:
The Assistant Category Manager is responsible for supporting and onboarding new and existing suppliers, managing product creation and catalog selection, driving vendor feedback and product quality, coordinating vendor promotions, as well as supporting category management reporting needs. This is a unique opportunity to join a high-growth business, directly work with vendors and work on exciting product launches. If you thrive in a fast-paced environment and enjoy vendor management, we’d love to hear from you!

Tasks: 

• Set up new products
• Upload product costs
• Create POs
• Upload inbound inventory forecasts
• Onboard new vendors
• Own and manage vendor product quality feedback and reporting
• Create and send monthly Vendor Inventory reports
• Coordinate vendor samples
• Coordinate vendor promotions with Merchandising
• Compile vendor assets, producer profile, marketing materials for Marketing hand-off
• Support Category Management reporting needs

Job Requirements:

• 2-3 years of work experience
• Vendor management / supplier management 
• Intermediate Excel skills
• High Attention to detail
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• Bachelor’s Degree 
• Flexibility, adaptability to change
• Strong sense of ownership and urgency
  

Full time employees receive paid medical benefits, 401K and a generous PTO package. For the immediate future, this position will be based from your home office in the Seattle area.