Vice President - Supply Chain, Americas

Kohler Co.•Kohler, WI

6d•Onsite

About The Position

This position is responsible for leading the Americas Regional Supply Chain organization to industry-leading levels of demand planning, customer fulfillment, service reliability, logistics performance, inventory deployment, organizational efficiency, and customer experience. The leader sets the regional supply chain agenda for Kitchen & Bath Americas by translating customer, channel, and market priorities into clear demand signals, differentiated fulfillment capabilities, service commitments, and operating routines that strengthen growth, loyalty, and business performance. This role serves as the senior regional voice of the customer and market within the consolidated Global Supply Chain model, ensuring Americas requirements are represented in planning governance while regional execution remains focused on customer-facing supply chain excellence. The leader is expected to create competitive differentiation through benchmark supply chain practices, AI-enabled execution, digital operating tools, advanced analytics, and continuous improvement of fulfillment speed, visibility, reliability, and productivity. This individual will build a high-performing organization that embraces new technologies, simplifies work, improves decision speed, and delivers sustained progress in service, cost, cash, responsiveness, customer experience, and organizational effectiveness.

Requirements

Extensive experience as a senior supply chain leader with demonstrated success in demand planning, customer fulfillment, logistics, distribution, customer service, inventory deployment, and regional supply chain performance.
Proven ability to set strategy, build enterprise alignment, translate business priorities into operating plans, and deliver measurable improvement across service, cost, cash, growth, and customer experience.
Deep knowledge of Demand Planning, Sales & Operations Planning, Integrated Business Planning, forecasting, demand management, product availability, inventory deployment, and customer fulfillment processes.
Experience leading modern logistics, warehouse, distribution, transportation, and customer service operations supported by strong systems, analytics, operating routines, and performance metrics.
Demonstrated ability to benchmark external best practices and convert industry-leading processes, technologies, and operating models into practical capability improvements.
Demonstrated ability to leverage AI, automation, advanced analytics, and digital technologies to improve planning effectiveness, execution quality, productivity, decision speed, and organizational efficiency.
Strong financial acumen with the ability to connect regional supply chain decisions to commercial performance, operating cost, inventory investment, cash, and customer outcomes.
History of building high-performing leadership teams, developing talent, strengthening succession depth, and improving organizational capability in a complex matrix environment.
Knowledgeable in SAP, advanced planning systems, WMS/TMS capabilities, analytics tools, digital supply chain platforms, AI-enabled planning tools, and customer-facing fulfillment technologies.
Exceptional communication skills with the ability to influence senior leaders, align cross-functional stakeholders, and represent the function with credibility to customers and external partners.
Strategic and practical leadership style with the ability to establish direction, simplify complexity, drive accountability, and deliver sustained performance improvement.
Applicants must be authorized to work in the US without requiring sponsorship now or in the future.

Responsibilities

Set the Americas regional supply chain strategy, operating priorities, and performance agenda to support business growth, customer loyalty, and Global Supply Chain objectives.
Lead Demand Planning and commercial integration, improving forecast accuracy, forecast value-add, demand signal quality, and market intelligence across customer, channel, product, and promotional inputs.
Represent Americas demand, customer, and channel requirements within enterprise S&OP, supply planning, inventory, and governance processes while maintaining clear regional accountability for customer-facing execution.
Create industry-leading customer fulfillment capabilities that improve order visibility, delivery reliability, responsiveness, service quality, and customer satisfaction.
Position supply chain as a source of regional competitive advantage by elevating the customer experience through fulfillment excellence, proactive service design, and disciplined operating routines.
Lead Americas Customer Service, Transportation, Warehousing, Distribution, Inventory Deployment, Logistics, and regional supply chain continuous improvement with a focus on differentiated customer experience and productive cost-to-serve.
Direct regional inventory deployment and product availability priorities to balance service, working capital, customer commitments, and channel requirements across the fulfillment network.
Establish executive performance management routines and metrics that connect forecast quality, fulfillment reliability, customer service, logistics productivity, inventory health, cost, cash, and customer experience.
Continuously benchmark industry-leading supply chain, demand planning, fulfillment, logistics, distribution, and customer service practices; translate external insights into practical capability improvements for Kohler.
Champion AI-enabled planning, predictive insights, automation, workflow simplification, and digital operating tools that strengthen execution discipline, accelerate decisions, reduce manual effort, and improve organizational efficiency.
Sponsor digital, analytics, automation, and process capabilities that improve planning effectiveness, fulfillment visibility, network productivity, and customer-facing performance.
Build a high-performing regional leadership team with clear accountability, strong succession depth, and the capability to partner across Commercial, Finance, Operations, IT, Purchasing, Sourcing, and Global Supply Chain.
Lead change with clarity and pace, simplifying ways of working, strengthening functional excellence, and creating a culture of innovation, accountability, continuous improvement, and trusted cross-functional collaboration.