Vice President Supply Chain Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience in supply chain, demand planning, or procurement leadership.
• At least 3 years of experience managing a team.
• Deep expertise in demand and buy planning for apparel, footwear, or consumer product brands with wholesale and direct-to-consumer distribution.
• Experience with vendor sourcing and contract negotiation across multiple factories and regions.
• Demonstrated ownership of inventory risk, rather than responsibility limited to producing forecasts for others to act on.
• Experience selecting or implementing a demand-planning or buying system.
• Direct, hands-on experience using AI or automation to reduce manual work in a planning or reporting process.
• Strong communication skills, including the ability to present to senior leadership and influence cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience with buy governance, vendor performance, and inventory controls in a multi-brand or multi-business-unit environment.
• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, business, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience. The posting also describes a bachelor’s degree as preferred and says equivalent experience will be considered.
• Trade compliance and customs expertise for a multi-brand apparel/footwear business sourcing from overseas factories, including import/export regulations, HTS classification, tariff exposure, and duty mitigation.
• Working knowledge of quantitative forecasting methods, such as statistical or time-series modeling or demand sensing.
• Hands-on comfort with SQL and BI/reporting tools.
• Track record leading organizational or process transformation and building a function from scratch.
• Experience operating at comparable scale, demonstrated through annual PO/purchase volume, SKU count, number of vendors/factories managed, and team size at prior companies.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with LLMs or AI tools in production, such as Claude/Anthropic API or similar, applied to forecasting, reporting, or vendor analysis.
• Background in consumer brands, footwear/apparel, or omni-channel distribution.
• Experience with ERP platforms such as Full Circle or NetSuite and integrated planning modules.
• Track record of building a planning/procurement function from early stage to operational maturity.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the TWS Planning & Procurement roadmap across OluKai, melin, Roark, and Amble, including systems, tools, and demand-planning methodology.
• Translate brand and business needs into a standardized planning process with clear service levels and measurable outcomes.
• Govern buy, vendor, and inventory-risk standards across all brands and systems.
• Report supply chain performance and KPIs directly to the President.
• Build the Planning & Procurement team from the ground up by defining roles, hiring talent, and establishing the Planning, Procurement, and Inbound Logistics structure.
• Recruit, develop, and retain talent as the function scales, and foster ownership, accountability, and cross-brand partnership.
• Own demand, supply, and new product introduction planning execution across the four brands.
• Make buy decisions and take direct accountability for associated inventory risk, sell-through, and inventory turns.
• Own the monthly S&OP cadence, including a single operating forecast, purchase-order releases sequenced to lead times, and a shared scorecard covering OTIF, inventory, and cash.
• Own vendor sourcing, contract negotiation, and supplier performance across all four brands.
• Own inbound logistics, including freight, customs, and receipt timing, as part of a connected planning-to-delivery process.
• Establish supplier-performance and landed-cost practices.
• Select, implement, and own rollout of the demand and buy planning system.
• Build real-time reporting and dashboards so planning data does not depend on an individual or manual files.
• Partner with TWS Data & AI and IT teams to integrate planning systems with the broader data platform.
• Apply AI to demand forecasting, buy recommendations, exception flagging, vendor analysis, inventory alerts, and forecast-variance detection.
• Replace manual status reporting with a planning layer that users can query; measure AI outcomes by manual reporting hours eliminated and faster decisions.
• Stay current on relevant AI and LLM developments and proactively apply them to the function.
• Partner with the VP of Production on long-range and capacity forecasting.
• Partner with Finance/FP&A on fiscal planning, forecast reconciliation, and budget governance.
• Maintain the operating boundary with the VP of Operations: outbound logistics, 3PL, warehousing, and distribution remain with Operations.
• Own the operating budget for procurement-related inbound freight/3PL costs, planning systems and tooling, and Planning, Procurement, and Inbound Logistics headcount, within spending authority to be determined and before President sign-off is required.
• Hold direct accountability for how the operating budget is spent and partner with Finance/FP&A on the broader fiscal plan and forecast reconciliation.

Benefits

• Complimentary chef-prepared breakfast and lunch Monday through Thursday.
• Generous product gift program and discounts across all brands.
• Company bonus program.
• Travel gifts for five-year and ten-year milestone anniversaries.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance in accordance with plan guidelines.
• Company-paid life insurance in accordance with plan guidelines.
• 401(k) with employer match in accordance with plan guidelines.
• 15 days of PTO accrued annually, one additional PTO day each year on the employee’s anniversary, and three floating holidays per year.
• Paid beach and giveback days, bi-annual team-building events, and other in-person celebrations.
• Opportunity to work with colleagues who share an interest in lifestyle brands.