Sr Director of Supply Chain

Job Description

Position Purpose:

The Sr Director of Supply Chain will manage all supply chain elements to provide adequate finished goods inventory to meet customer demand in a high-growth company. The position will lead, teach, and motivate the teams to procure, produce, and stock inventories in a professional cGMP environment. Reports to the CEO.

Operational Responsibilities:

Procurement

Assess suppliers with a structured evaluation process.

Manage purchasing, receiving and QC for RM inspection process.

Manage inbound 3PL relationships.

Take receiving and inventory control to ‘next level’ by utilizing scanning and reducing internal manual processes.

Inventory Controls

Review and improve physical controls, including safety requirements.

Own and improve the cycle count program, achieving 99% accuracy.

Review and improve the warehouse and production locator system for all inventory types.

Packaging Development

Work with marketing and R&D to create and improve primary and secondary packaging, considering product appearance, ease of production, inventory controls, and fulfillment activities.

Work with fulfillment to improve the Company’s capability to service distributors with standard shipping, packaging, and labeling.

Work with R&D to improve bottle labeling and conformance, and kit labeling to improve standardization.

This function will likely be outsourced and managed by this position.

Demand Planning & Production Scheduling

Manage this function, collaborating with Marketing and Sales to reach an agreement on sales forecasts updated monthly.

Ensure data is integrated in Inventory Planning (part of ERP system), and review production and purchasing requirements generated by MFP.

Translate MRP requirements into digestible production schedules, updating weekly.

Support growth into new channels or regions with appropriate planning.

Bulk, Bottling & Kitting Production

Lead & teach production managers/supervisors. Actively support training programs to provide clear goals on graduated job classifications.

Plan for required production output: capex, staffing, shift management, and space.

Update the current work order and lot number process to better utilize ERP integration.

Explore and support Marketing efforts re ‘kit to order’.

Improve professional work standards to be compliant with cGMP and MOCRA. Own and complete projects to utilize ‘expanded MRP’, to include capacity elements, improved time tracking on work orders & equipment. Enhance inventory tracking (to include lot numbers) across all inventory transactions, including RM issuing, work order completion for all production activities, fulfillment, shipping, and customer invoicing.

Create internal measures to track performance against the production work schedules.

Create plans for capex and staffing and shifts to support growth.

QC and Regulatory

Recognize the several functions of QC: Make quality products in appropriate packaging, support NPC and launches w marketing, maintain QC systems (Unipoint), and regulatory (MOCRA, channel compliance, more).

Streamline current processes to improve efficiency (work orders, batch sheets, lot controls, more) and enhance focus on core QC activities (production review, NC and root cause analysis, CARs).

Expand QC appropriately to be stronger in bottling, kitting and FG.

Ensure solid capability re recalls (prompt and targeted—see other comments re inventory tracking across all functions).

Some of this function (e.g, regulatory) may be outsourced.

Fulfillment

Manage this function with the core goal of improving service/delivery time to customers in all channels.

Improve utilization of bar code and related tools.

Evaluate expanding outbound 3PL to include all of DTC in the US, allowing focus on PRO, Amazon, and potential other e-tailers and distributors.

Continuously review packaging and package sizes to improve efficiency. Improve the automation of package labeling for shipping.

People Development Activities:

Utilize the performance appraisal system and ongoing routine interaction with the team to focus on internal growth opportunities and promote deserving people through the job tiers.

Help connect managers & supervisors to relevant local organizations.

Working with HR, create a thoughtful manager and group training curriculum.

Required Skills/Abilities:

Demonstrated communication & collaboration skills.

Works well with others to achieve common goals

Exceptional listener, writer, speaker, and presenter

A leader, motivator, and coach.

At ease with IT systems and MS Office suite.

Thinks in terms of process flow.

Curious, enjoys change, growth, and continuous improvement.

A consummate professional—represents the SCM team, other VB associates and the Company well.

Reaches outside the Company and participates in the business community with appropriate organizations. Always learning and growing.

Education and Experience:

Bachelor’s degree in an appropriate discipline – preferably Supply Chain Management.

MBA or advanced certification desired, e.g., SCM, APICs, Lean, cGMP.

Minimum ten years of experience (in a senior SCM position) in a multi-channel CPG environment with internal manufacturing (beauty preferred).

Hands-on experience with robust ERP and related supporting systems.

Demonstrated management/supervisory skills: successful recruiting, training, and advancing.

Company Description

Help build a healthy community whose members share a common goal, accept personal responsibility, earn each other’s respect, excel in their tasks, help each other be successful, participate in the social benefits of being associated with a winning team and Company profits, and provide creative, enjoyable opportunities for all.

Full-time