[Remote] VP, Supply Chain & Operations
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Three Bird Nest is a company dedicated to inspiring individuals to express their authentic selves through style. They are seeking a VP of Supply Chain and Operations to oversee all aspects of supply chain management, including procurement and 3PL management, while driving operational efficiencies and scalability in a growing business.
Responsibilities
- Accountable for performance, cost control, service levels, and billing accuracy
- Direct ownership of outbound shipping, returns, and overall 3PL cost structure
- Enact a scorecard to measure 3PL performance
- Drive scalability across fulfillment operations
- Serve as day-to-day liaison between 3BN and 3PL
- Collaborate and provide necessary forecasts for 3PL planning
- Lead holiday and event planning to ensure 3PL performance
- Enact scorecards to measure, share, and improve supplier performance
- Establish a process to share product insights and future needs
- Initiate business review meetings with top suppliers
- Establish auditing and oversight process for direct suppliers
- Manage the 3BN Procurement team
- Evaluate and improve existing processes
- Ensure that procurement capabilities keep up with inventory/product requirements
- Setup indirect procurement (e.g. packaging, shipping material, etc)
- Build a structured planning cadence to align the demand forecast, inventory, and financial targets
- Partner with Chief Merchant to establish inventory targets
- Manage the OTB process, ensuring that quality and quantity metrics are maintained
- Work through all supply constraints to sales forecast
- Ownership of carrier services including contracts, negotiations and ongoing optimization
- Set strategy for shipping account usage to optimize cost and performance
- Ownership of all supply chain data and reporting (e.g. WMS, forecasting tools, etc)
- Ensure data accuracy and alignment across systems architecture (e.g. ShipHero, Shopify, Inventory Planner, etc)
- Ensure that orders are placed and managed to meet pre-sale commitments
- Partner with suppliers to deliver products via pre-sale in accordance with 3BN plans
Skills
- 10+ years of experience in Supply Chain and Operations, with demonstrated success creating solutions that make the business more scalable, keeping pace with a high growth environment
- Experience leading in a high-performance, high-growth apparel business with digital and fashion
- A history of driving efficiencies in product costs and operating expenses
- Affinity for partnering with and influencing senior business leaders while growing talent within one's own team and across the enterprise is needed
- An affinity for a creative, solutions-oriented approach to meeting the needs of the business, brand aesthetic, and customer is desired
- An authentic leader with apparel experience and strong analytical skills is required
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