Manager, Supply Strategy & Operations
Boost your chances before you apply.
Burq, Inc.
US
Summary
The manager will own the supply-side ecosystem by defining and executing a multi-tier delivery service provider network strategy. They are responsible for managing partner relationships, negotiating contracts, and driving operational performance through data-driven insights and cross-functional collaboration.
Job Description
The Supply Strategy & Operations Manager is a critical leadership role at the intersection of strategy and execution. You will own our entire supply-side ecosystem: building and managing relationships with national, regional, and local delivery service providers (DSPs); defining the strategy for how we grow and optimize our supply network; and driving the operational rigor needed to hit best-in-class delivery performance metrics.
What You'll Own
Supply Strategy
- Define and execute a multi-tier DSP network strategy across national, regional, and local providers to ensure coverage, redundancy, and cost efficiency.
- Identify white-space markets and capacity gaps; lead the sourcing and onboarding of new DSP partners.
- Build frameworks for DSP tiering, preferred partner programs, and volume allocation based on performance and strategic fit.
- Partner with leadership on pricing, margin, and supply economics to inform long-range business planning.
DSP Relationship Management
- Serve as the primary point of contact for key DSP partners, building trusted, long-term relationships with owner-operators and national account teams.
- Negotiate contracts, SLAs, and commercial terms with carrier partners.
- Lead regular business reviews with strategic DSPs, driving accountability against performance targets and surfacing mutual growth opportunities.
Supply Operations & Performance
- Own core supply KPIs end-to-end, including successful delivery rate, on-time delivery (OTD), cancellations, refund rates, and DSP support ticket resolution.
- Establish and maintain DSP scorecards; drive structured performance improvement plans (PIPs) for underperforming partners.
- Lead cross-functional initiatives with Product, Engineering, Merchant Success, and Support to resolve systemic supply issues.
- Build and maintain operational playbooks for DSP onboarding, incident management, and capacity surge response.
- Analyze delivery data to identify root causes of failure, surface insights, and implement operational improvements at scale.
- 5+ years of experience in technology, logistics, supply chain, carrier management, or last-mile operations.
- Proven track record managing external partners or vendor relationships in a performance-driven environment.
- Strong analytical skills — comfortable building models, interpreting data, and translating findings into decisions.
- Exceptional communicator with the ability to negotiate, influence, and build trust with external operators and internal stakeholders alike.
- Experience with DSP networks, gig delivery platforms, or courier operations is a strong plus.
- Startup or scale-up experience; you thrive in ambiguous environments and can build structure where little exists.
- Bias toward action — you don't wait for perfect information to move forward.
- SQL or data visualization skills (Tableau, etc.).
- Experience structuring and negotiating carrier contracts or MSAs.
Investing in you 🙏
- Competitive Salary, Stock Options, and Performance-based Bonuses
- Fully Remote
- Comprehensive Medical, Vision and Dental Insurance
At Burq, we value diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer: we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
Burq is a last-mile delivery infrastructure for teams that need reliability at scale without stitching together carriers, tools, and manual exception handling.
Burq’s AI layer, Pulse AI, powers specialized agents across the delivery lifecycle that read real-time signals, detect risk early, and trigger actions that protect on-time performance, cost, and customer experience.
With Burq, teams can quote and select the best option per order; orchestrate dispatch across in-house and third-party fleets; automate routing, batching, and workflow decisions; resolve exceptions fast (reroutes, recovery, refunds/credits); send brand-safe customer updates; and surface performance insights that make reliability and cost drivers clear.
Built for enterprise and high-growth operators across grocery, floral, specialty retail, and more. Learn more at burqup.com.
Founded
2021
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Org type
Privately Held
Burq is a last-mile delivery infrastructure for teams that need reliability at scale without stitching together carriers, tools, and manual exception handling.
Burq’s AI layer, Pulse AI, powers specialized agents across the delivery lifecycle that read real-time signals, detect risk early, and trigger actions that protect on-time performance, cost, and customer experience.
With Burq, teams can quote and select the best option per order; orchestrate dispatch across in-house and third-party fleets; automate routing, batching, and workflow decisions; resolve exceptions fast (reroutes, recovery, refunds/credits); send brand-safe customer updates; and surface performance insights that make reliability and cost drivers clear.
Built for enterprise and high-growth operators across grocery, floral, specialty retail, and more. Learn more at burqup.com.
Founded
2021
Company size
51-200 employees
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Org type
Privately Held