VP, Supply Chain Strategy

Imperial Brady is a leading North American distributor and solutions provider for cleaning and facility care, foodservice, and packaging. With more than 13,000 employees and a broad supply chain network, we deliver national scale with local expertise. Built on strong customer relationships and deep industry knowledge, we go beyond distribution—delivering Supplies + Support through expertise, service, and a commitment to making every customer touchpoint a plus. #imperialbradyjobs All correspondence will come directly from Imperial Brady and not a personal email address.** The Vice President, Supply Chain Strategy leads the design and implementation of enterprise initiatives that improve how the company plans inventory, purchases product, and translates category strategies into supply chain execution. This leader aligns product availability, inventory investment, supplier performance, and purchasing practices to support customer service, profitable growth, and working capital objectives. This is a heavily project-based leadership role with accountability for changing the way teams work. The Vice President evaluates systems, tools, and processes, builds business cases, and leads cross-functional teams through redesign, pilots, implementation, and adoption. This leader delivers the planning and purchasing changes needed to capture synergies from network consolidation, including lower inventory investment, improved buying economics, and greater team productivity. Success requires measurable improvements in efficiency and effectiveness, with clear ownership to sustain results. The role partners closely with Category Management, inventory planning and purchasing teams, field leadership, Sales, Finance, and IT to connect commercial priorities with practical planning and buying decisions across the distribution network. Key Areas of Focus Supply chain strategy and project leadership: Build and manage a prioritized portfolio of inventory planning and purchasing initiatives. Define project scope, business requirements, milestones, resources, risks, and expected benefits. Establish governance, resolve cross-functional dependencies, and report progress and decisions to senior leadership. Inventory planning and replenishment: Develop consistent planning policies by product, location, demand pattern, and service requirement. Improve forecasting, safety stock, reorder points, lead times, order quantities, and replenishment parameters. Incorporate seasonality, customer commitments, supplier constraints, and field input into plans; establish regular parameter reviews and exception management. Purchasing process improvement: Redesign how teams generate, review, approve, place, and follow up on purchase orders. Improve order consolidation, buying cadence, supplier confirmations, and shortage escalation. Evaluate minimum order quantities, freight thresholds, discounts, rebates, and payment terms against total cost, inventory exposure, and customer service. Category management collaboration: Partner with Category Management on assortment decisions, supplier programs, product introductions, substitutions, and discontinuations. Translate category plans into forecasts, stocking policies, purchasing parameters, and inventory transition plans. Jointly assess commercial incentives against carrying costs, excess inventory risk, availability, and margin; support supplier negotiations with demand and inventory analysis. Inventory investment and productivity: Lead projects to improve turns and days on hand, reduce stockouts, and address slow-moving, excess, and obsolete inventory. Develop inventory segmentation, interbranch transfer, and disposition strategies with field and category teams. Partner with Finance to set inventory goals and validate working capital and profitability improvements. Network consolidation and synergy delivery: Lead the inventory planning and purchasing workstreams that turn network consolidation plans into operating improvements. M…

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