Director of Supply Chain

Accountabilities:

• • Own and continuously evolve the end-to-end supply chain strategy across sourcing, procurement, manufacturing, inventory, and distribution, ensuring the infrastructure can support rapid domestic and international growth.
  • Develop manufacturing and supplier network strategies, including sourcing decisions, dual-sourcing opportunities, manufacturing footprint, and make-versus-buy analysis.
  • Identify and mitigate supply risks and single points of failure across manufacturers, suppliers, raw materials, components, and packaging.
  • Lead consensus demand planning and supply planning across DTC, Amazon FBA/FBM, retail, wholesale, and international channels, translating commercial forecasts into SKU-level production, procurement, inventory, and capacity requirements.
  • Lead the S&OP process and create strong alignment across Sales, E-Commerce, Marketing, Product, Finance, and Operations.
  • Establish procurement governance and oversee purchase orders, supplier commitments, production schedules, costs, delivery dates, payment status, and variance management.
  • Lead contract manufacturer and supplier selection, onboarding, negotiations, relationship management, performance reviews, scorecards, and QBRs.
  • Negotiate pricing, lead times, MOQs, payment terms, capacity reservations, and other commercial conditions while maintaining quality and service standards.
  • Own inventory strategy across SKUs, channels, and locations, including safety stock, inventory turns, days/weeks of cover, aged inventory, excess inventory, and obsolescence prevention.
  • Partner with Finance to improve inventory accuracy, working-capital management, product-cost visibility, and overall supply-chain financial performance.
  • Drive continuous COGS optimization across manufacturing, materials, packaging, freight, and other upstream costs without compromising quality or customer experience.
  • Ensure supply-chain readiness for major retail partners, including forecasts, replenishment, inventory availability, OTIF, fill rates, routing, case-pack, labeling, and compliance requirements.
  • Lead supply-chain readiness for new product launches by securing materials, packaging, production capacity, finished goods, and replenishment plans against critical launch milestones.
  • Develop supply-chain strategies for international expansion, including regional inventory, replenishment, lead-time, freight, capacity, packaging, labeling, and compliance considerations.
  • Own supply-chain master-data integrity across SKU, vendor, BOM, MOQ, lead-time, cost, supplier, and inventory information, while supporting ERP implementation and optimization.
  • Build, lead, and develop a high-performing supply-chain organization, establishing clear responsibilities, decision rights, KPIs, accountability, succession planning, and cross-training.
  • Lead monthly supply-chain business reviews and recurring vendor QBRs, providing executive-level visibility into inventory, production, capacity, working capital, risks, and mitigation plans.
  • Act as a strategic partner to executive leadership, escalating material risks early and presenting clear business impacts, options, recommendations, and required decisions.

  Requirements:

  • 8–12+ years of progressive supply-chain experience, including meaningful leadership responsibility within a fast-growth CPG or consumer-products organization.
  • Demonstrated experience building and scaling supply-chain infrastructure in rapidly growing businesses.
  • Deep hands-on expertise across demand planning, supply planning, procurement, contract manufacturing, inventory management, and supplier management.
  • Proven experience supporting omnichannel businesses spanning DTC, retail, wholesale, and Amazon FBA/FBM.
  • Strong understanding of major retail supply-chain requirements, replenishment, OTIF performance, and inventory planning.
  • Significant contract-manufacturing, supplier-management, and commercial negotiation experience.
  • Experience managing both domestic and international supply chains and preparing organizations for market expansion.
  • Strong financial acumen, including understanding of COGS, inventory investment, margins, cash requirements, and working-capital implications.
  • Experience working with ERP and planning systems, with a strong focus on data integrity, planning discipline, and scalable processes.
  • Strong strategic and analytical capabilities combined with a hands-on, execution-oriented approach.
  • Excellent cross-functional communication and stakeholder-management skills, with the ability to influence senior leaders and external partners.
  • Demonstrated ability to build teams, establish operating rhythms, and create accountability in high-growth environments.
  • Experience in beauty, haircare, personal care, or other consumer-product categories is preferred.
  • Experience scaling a digitally native consumer brand into major brick-and-mortar retail is a plus.
  • Experience supporting nine-figure or rapidly scaling consumer businesses is advantageous.
  • Familiarity with NetSuite or comparable ERP platforms and experience improving demand- and supply-planning systems are preferred.

  Benefits:

  • $150,000–$190,000 annual compensation range.
  • Fully remote position based in the United States.
  • Full-time leadership opportunity with significant ownership of the supply-chain function.
  • Direct executive exposure and meaningful influence over revenue, profitability, working capital, retail expansion, and customer experience.
  • Opportunity to design and implement scalable supply-chain systems, processes, supplier relationships, and organizational structures.
  • Opportunity to support major omnichannel and international growth initiatives.
  • Fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment with substantial decision-making authority.
  • Opportunity to help scale a rapidly growing consumer brand and build a high-performing supply-chain organization.