Vice President Purchasing and Distribution

Overview:

Vice President, Supply Chain

Columbus, Ohio, Reporting to Chief Advisor

Who We Are:

Gosh Enterprises is a dynamic, rapidly growing company that oversees a family of brands:

Charleys: A 847+ unit restaurant brand known worldwide for serving the #1 Cheesesteak in the World.

Bibibop Asian Grill: An award winning, 60+ unit Korean-inspired fast casual restaurant concept

Lenny’s Grill and Subs: A Memphis-based 61+ unit chain serving high quality deli subs and hot subs

Charleys Kids: A non-profit, partnering with likeminded organizations around the world to provide food, education, and mentorship to at-risk children.

58 Partners: The 58 Partners Foundation Church is committed to build a generation of youth who come, listen, follow, know Jesus, and make him known

Solar Planet: A company that provides solar field advisory and installation services

Job Summary:

The Vice President of Supply Chain will provide leadership and strategy for the procurement of food and packaging supplies for assigned brand product categories and distribution for assigned regions.

Reporting to the Chief Advisor, the VP of Supply Chain will be accountable for the people and priorities in procurement, buying power and distribution for the vast growth plans for Charley’s, Bibibop and Lenny’s.

Key Leadership Responsibilities:

Being the guardian of Gosh Enterprises’ Vision, Mission, and Values.

Charting the strategic roadmap to achieve sustainable and quality profit and growth.

Building a culture of trust and accountability in which team members could thrive.

Stewarding the financial wellbeing of the brands

Key Accountabilities:

Food and Packaging

Manage supplier relationships and negotiate contract pricing for assigned food and packaging product categories

Conduct commodity analysis, develop and execute Risk Management strategies for assigned food and packaging product categories

Develop and execute supply contingency plans for assigned product and distribution services as needed

Develop and execute purchasing strategies for assigned food and packaging product categories

Deliver cost reduction options for assigned food and paper products categories

Resolve and communicate all quality issues reported for food and packaging product categories

Distribution

Negotiate distribution contracts for assigned food and packaging products categories

Manage relationships with assigned distribution members

Manage the communication/information flow to the assigned distributors

Enforce contractual compliance with assigned distribution members

Promotions

Manage the sourcing of new products required for LTO promotions within assigned category responsibility

Analyze inventory requirements and coordinate production of LTO products

Manage distributor inventory levels of LTO products to optimize availability and obsolescence

Provide communication and feedback to all internal and external members of the promotion team

Risk Management

Develop and manage the implementation of risk management strategies

Provide market information and insight on key impact commodities: cheese, poultry, beef, resin, and paper

Reporting and Analysis

Complete analysis and provide timely reporting to management regarding Price Forecast, Cost Reduction Initiatives, Risk Management, Commodity Insights, and Special Project progress

Communication

Provide timely information to the Franchise Business Consultant, Franchise Advisory Committee, Leadership teams for all brands, Monthly and Quarterly Business Meetings, monthly newsletters, etc.

Operator Support

Ensure timely delivers and uninterrupted supply of food and packaging products for brand assigned distributors

Provide problem resolution for operator issues with distributors and suppliers

Support the FBC’s and RM’s in their request for assistance

Coordinate distribution of food and packaging products to all new stores

The duties and responsibilities described in this job description may not be a comprehensive list. Additional tasks may be assigned to the employee from time to time and/or the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands

Critical Functions:

Formulate strategy and plans with leaders

Provide consistent and regular KPI’s for brand and people

Provide consistent and regular financial analysis with budgeting and forecasting for scope of responsibility

Provide leadership for distribution, procurement and supply chain for Charley’s and solve challenging problems

Behaviors that are important to us:

Highly accountable. Focus on results and impact instead of activities.

A compassionate servant leader that is for others' growth and success.

Humble to learn, unlearn and relearn.

Embrace reality and constraints; resilient in the face of setback and challenges.

Entrepreneurial thinker; ingenuous and creative when resources are limited. Excited by the prospect of doing more with less.

Strive for excellence in every endeavor.

Have the capability, integrity and warrior spirit

Qualifications and Requirements:

Solid track records leading in a high growth environment

Current or previous experience in a VP of Procurement and Distribution role

Strategic mindset – proven results with strategy for growth, and profit drivers; and strategy for talent acquisition and retention of team

Minimum of 10 years of progressive purchasing experience

Experience in restaurant or retail industry a must

Minimum of 5 years of leadership experience

MBA or Masters in a related field desired

Minimum of 25% travel required

CPM preferred

Critical Leadership Capabilities

Ensuring Cultural Excellence

Create and contribute to an inclusive culture where differences are celebrated, and all belong and thrive.

Ensure that a healthy and vibrant culture is maintained -- one that promotes collaboration, constructive challenge, and engagement.

In partnership with leadership, develop high-performing teams through coaching, holding leaders accountable, and establishing new ways to enable teaming and collaboration.

Collaborating and Influencing:

Invites and uses the opinions and perspectives of others while determining technology strategy for anticipated growth and scale.

Engages people in a dialogue to gain commitment and bring them “on board”, linking their perspective to the intent.

Adapts own approach to the audience, anticipating impact of words and actions, preparing for possible resistance, and responding in an appropriate style, using a range of influencing styles.

Strategic Thinking:

Segments the total market covered in own area into categories of customer or client.

Adopts a long-term perspective about the business (customer segments and the external environment). Develops hypotheses or alternative scenarios of how critical issues will play out beyond the year, and uses these to set challenging goals with a future payoff or outcomes.

Translates business goals into well-defined performance plans for his/her own organization and communicates link between current activities and goals.

Thinks beyond annual goals.

Leading Change:

Publicly identifies needed changes or directions for the Company that need adjustment, challenges assumptions and norms.

Challenges assumptions about “the way things are done”.

Communicates explicitly with others regarding current technology organization: what must change, why changes are necessary, and possible outcomes and costs.

Adjusts communication style to the audience to help them understand and accept the change.

Encourages people to support and propose changes and ideas.

Permanent