Junior Supply Chain Manager (mfd)

Are you a strategic thinker ready to dive into the operational core of one of Europes fastest-growing pet food startups

At The Better Cat our mission is to revolutionise the pet food market and were doing this at high pace. Weve already won the Fressnapf Innovation Award 2024!

Our focus is the cat segment the largest and fastest-growing category in pet food.

Youll join our lean Supply Chain & Operations team working directly with Lucia (Supply Chain Manager) and with direct access to the founders. Your mission: discover suppliers run procurement manage inventory and automate the manual processes that dont scale laying the groundwork as we expand beyond Germany.

• Supplier Discovery & Procurement Support supplier discovery for new co-manufacturing partners and ingredients and run day-to-day procurement (POs coordination order follow-up).
• Inventory Management Manage inventory levels across our co-manufacturer and logistics network to balance availability against working capital.
• Working Capital Contribute to optimising working capital usage across the supply chain stock levels payment terms order cadence.
• Automation of Manual Tasks Eliminate repetitive processes across the supply chain using LLMs and no-/low-code tools like Claude and n8n.

Youll be great at this if you

• Have 02 years of professional experience in supply chain procurement buying or operations.
• Have a strong academic background from a commercial or technical programme (e.g. Business Administration Supply Chain Management Engineering or similar).
• Speak fluent English.
• Are confident in Excel/Google Sheets comfortable building and maintaining trackers supplier data and simple forecasts.
• Have some exposure to demand forecasting inventory management or ERP/warehouse-management systems nice to have not a dealbreaker.
• Have hands-on experience with AI and automation tools (Claude n8n or similar) youve actually built something not just used the tools.
• Are comfortable picking up the phone to negotiate with suppliers and manage external partners.
• Are highly detail-oriented and structured you love turning chaos into order.
• Have a growth mindset and want to take on more responsibility quickly.

• Learn from the best: Work alongside a super lean experienced supply chain and operations team with direct access to the founder.
• Growth mode: Join one of Europes fastest-growing pet food startups.
• Meritocratic culture: Flat hierarchies fast pace and real ownership from day one.
• Front-row seat to scale: Be part of expanding our operations beyond Germany.
• Deutschland Ticket subsidy included.
• EGym Wellpass subsidy included.

Ready to make the world better for cats
Send us your CV along with a few lines on why you want to join The Better Cat well get back to you quickly to set up a first conversation.