Vice President, Supply Chain

Reporting directly to the President, the VP of Supply Chain will translate customer demand, commercial priorities, new product launches and growth objectives into executable supply chain strategies and operating plans across three manufacturing sites. This leader will establish the processes, organizational discipline, systems and visibility required to improve customer service, reduce total cost, increase throughput and productivity, optimize inventory and working capital and support scalable growth. The successful candidate will be a highly operational, low-ego executive who is equally comfortable setting strategy, making executive-level decisions and working directly with teams to solve detailed operational problems. This individual will bring deep experience in batch manufacturing and finished-goods packaging environments and understand the unique challenges of a beauty and personal care CDMO, including demand volatility, customer-specific materials and products, new product introductions, material lead times, inventory exposure, regulatory and quality requirements and aggressive customer service expectations. What You Will Do: Provide executive leadership for the company's end-to-end supply chain strategy and execution, ensuring alignment with customer requirements, commercial objectives, manufacturing capabilities, financial goals, and the company's long-term growth strategy. Serve as the primary supply chain voice on the executive leadership team, bringing visibility to critical decisions, constraints, risks, opportunities, and required trade-offs. Translate customer orders, forecasts, product-mixes, new business, and launch plans into supply scenarios with clear implications for customer service, capacity, cost, margin, inventory, and working capital. Lead and continuously improve the company's Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) and Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) processes. Own the weekly S&OE cadence covering the 0–4-week horizon, ensuring timely identification and resolution of material shortages, capacity constraints, customer priorities, schedule risks, new product requirements, and other execution issues. Partner with Commercial and Customer Service to improve forecast quality and ensure meaningful visibility into customer demand, promotions, launches, and changes in product mix. Provide leadership for procurement and strategic sourcing across raw materials, ingredients, packaging components, and other externally sourced goods and services. Drive sourcing strategies that improve material availability, reduce total cost, mitigate supply risk, and support growth. Establish disciplined supplier performance management across quality, service, cost, lead time, responsiveness, and on-time delivery. Leverage strategic supplier relationships while creating appropriate accountability, corrective-action processes, and supplier-development initiatives. Provide leadership for production planning and scheduling across all manufacturing locations. Ensure customer demand is translated into realistic production schedules based on available materials, labor, equipment, capacity, quality requirements, and manufacturing constraints. Establish appropriate planning horizons, time fences, frozen schedules, planning parameters, and exception-management processes to improve schedule stability and manufacturing execution. Develop a holistic view of manufacturing capacity across the network and proactively identify bottlenecks, constraints, and future capacity requirements. Establish comprehensive inventory governance across raw materials, packaging components, work-in-process, finished goods, customer-owned/consigned materials, and excess and obsolete inventory. Balance customer service requirements with inventory and working-capital objectives. Establish appropriate inventory policies, safety-stock strategies, planning parameters, reorder methodologies, and material controls based on demand variability, lead times, customer re…

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