VP Global Supply Chain

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Vice President, Global Supply Chain
The Vice President, Global Supply Chain is responsible for the strategic leadership and execution of end-to-end retail supply chain operations, including distribution, logistics, inventory management, and omnichannel fulfillment. This role ensures product availability across all channels, including stores, shops in shops, wholesale, franchise and e-commerce channels, both domestic and international, while optimizing cost, speed, and customer experience.


Key Responsibilities
Supply Chain, Distribution & Logistics
• Oversee distribution center and logistics operations supporting retail stores and e-commerce fulfillment to ensure timely, accurate, and cost-effective product flow.
• Optimize inventory movement across the network to improve in-stock rates, reduce lead times, and enhance delivery performance.
• Ensure compliance with safety, quality, and regulatory standards across all facilities and logistics operations.
• Oversee facility security, space utilization, and operational risk mitigation.
• Lead global trade compliance, product regulatory governance, and international transportation strategy, ensuring adherence to sanctions, embargoes, and country-specific import/export regulations.
◦ Establish and operationalize product-to-market eligibility frameworks, enabling proactive approval or restriction of product sales based on country-specific regulatory, sanctions, embargo, and chemical compliance requirements.
• Establish product-level traceability (including country of origin and chemical composition) and integrate compliance controls into fulfillment processes, ensuring alignment between product data, destination requirements, and order execution.
• Ensure integration of trade compliance, product data, and fulfillment systems to enable automated screening, validation, and decision-making at the product, order, and destination level.
• Oversee recipient and vendor screening, including the expansion of compliance capabilities to cover end customers (B2C and drop-ship models), and ensure adherence to international trade restrictions and denied party regulations.
• Oversee data privacy compliance (e.g., GDPR) and ensure that customer data handling, cross-border transactions, and direct-to-consumer fulfillment models meet applicable global privacy requirements.
• Drive proactive cost management through pre-negotiated global shipping strategies, including evaluation of region-specific constraints (e.g., high-cost or restricted-origin countries) and alignment with traffic/transportation partners to optimize international shipping economics.
• Drive transportation and last-mile efficiency to support omnichannel customer expectations.
• Ensure third-party logistics providers and vendors meet contractual, cost, and service-level requirements.
• Establish and monitor KPIs including inventory accuracy, fill rate, on-time delivery, and cost-to-serve.
• Identify and implement process improvements, automation, and technology enablement to increase efficiency and scalability.
• Align supply chain operations with sales forecasts and merchandising strategies, ensuring product availability is aligned with regulatory eligibility across markets.
• Partner with merchandising, planning, finance, store operations, traffic/transportation leadership, legal, product development, and technology teams to align supply chain priorities with revenue, margin goals, shipping rates, regulatory requirements, cost implications, and contingency strategies.
• Lead market expansion readiness efforts, identifying regulatory, logistics, compliance, and cost requirements for new countries in advance of market entry.
• Support executive decision-making on network optimization, capital investments, and growth initiatives.


Qualifications
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• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Business, Operations, or related field required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive supply chain leadership experience, including senior roles in retail, omnichann