Vice President, Operations - AM Parts Fulfillment

About Us:

BW Packaging is driving performance at the intersection of people, technology, and customer care. As part of the privately held Barry Wehmiller family, we unite a global team of packaging experts with a clear purpose: People Who Care, Building Solutions that Perform. We take on our customers’ toughest challenges as our own — delivering both innovative and enduring solutions that set the standard for value and performance. Our strength comes from our people and the power of our brands — trusted names in packaging that are known worldwide for engineering excellence, application expertise, and lifetime commitment to customer success. Truly Human Leadership guides our belief that exceptional business results and profound respect for people together provide the foundation of enduring success. We are committed to forging lasting partnerships with our customers, earning their trust through integrity, expertise, and execution. With our full range of packaging solutions and long term partnership and service, we help customers achieve operational excellence today while building the future of packaging together.

 

Barry-Wehmiller is a diversified global supplier of engineering consulting and manufacturing technology for the packaging, corrugating, sheeting and paper-converting industries. By blending people-centric leadership with disciplined operational strategies and purpose-driven growth, Barry-Wehmiller has become a $3 billion organization with nearly 12,000 team members united by a common belief: to use the power of business to build a better world.

 

Job Description:

The Vice President, Operations--AM Parts Fulfillment is a global executive leader accountable for delivering ~$250M in Aftermarket (AM) Parts fulfillment performance across all product lines in Packaging. This leader is responsible for developing and executing a global fulfillment model that improves delivery velocity, enhances on-time performance, optimizes inventory strategy, and elevates the customer experience. Reporting to the COO, the VP maximizes operational efficiency and customer satisfaction by using data-driven insights, implementing standardized processes, and leveraging technology across regions. This leader champions key initiatives such as ERP enablement and other future-state capabilities to ensure a scalable, reliable, and high-performing AM Parts fulfillment organization. 

Key Responsibilities

 

Strategic & Functional Leadership 

• Lead the global AM Parts fulfillment organization, accountable for ~$250M in execution performance. 

• Develop and propose a phased global structure to consolidate fulfillment operations by market, region, and product line. 

• Build and develop a leadership team to oversee daily operations, driving delivery accuracy, quality, and customer communication. 

• Use data insights to guide organizational design, fulfillment strategy, and inventory management. 

• Harmonize fulfillment processes, practices, and system use to ensure consistency and efficiency across regions. 

Execution & Delivery Excellence 

• Develop a detailed plan to move the fulfillment organization onto a common ERP platform and continue optimization once installed. 

• Implement disciplined daily management practices to monitor trends, order patterns, quoting outcomes, and lost opportunities. 

• Maximize inventory strategy to improve investment effectiveness, reduce obsolescence, and align with customer demand. 

• Evaluate and deploy technologies that improve fulfillment speed, visibility, and customer status communication. 

• Build capabilities, views, and dashboards to monitor performance and adjust strategy in real time. 

Organizational Design & Talent Development 

• Build, lead, and continuously evolve a leader-of-leaders organization, ensuring clarity of roles