Vice President of Supply Chain Operations - Zionsville, United States - Vaco

Description

Vaco Indianapolis is seeking a VP of Supply Chain Operations for a direct hire opportunity with our client based on the Northwest side of Indianapolis.

Position Summary:
The Vice President of Manufacturing Operations is a pivotal leadership role designed to elevate operational efficiency and sustain our growth trajectory. This position oversees the entirety of our operations, including demand forecasting, purchasing strategies, and logistics, ensuring that our product inventory aligns seamlessly with market demand. This role involves executive level strategic oversight and leadership management of the customer care, warehouse and building maintenance operations. Within six months, the VP of Operations will fully assimilate these responsibilities, fostering strategic operational objectives and a culture of continuous improvement. This role demands a dynamic leader committed to driving operational excellence and contributing significantly to our long-term success.

Responsibilities:

• Strategic Operational Leadership: Spearhead operational strategies to enhance efficiency across logistics, demand forecasting, and purchasing, aligning with market demand.
• Management of Direct Reports: Provide strategic oversight and leadership to the Director of Customer Care, Warehouse Manager, and the Building Maintenance Contractor, ensuring productivity and operational excellence.
• Inventory Optimization: Employ advanced forecasting techniques to maintain optimal inventory levels, directly overseeing the purchasing process to meet market demand. This role is responsible for the strategic ordering of our inventory, ensuring a seamless alignment between our product offerings and market needs.
• Operational Efficiency: Drive initiatives aimed at streamlining customer care operations and warehouse processes for improved service delivery and operational cost management.
• Facilities Oversight: Oversee the contracted Building Maintenance team, ensuring all aspects of the facility's maintenance, repair, and custodial services are executed efficiently, aligning withstandards for quality and safety.
• Collaboration and Strategic Planning: Participate actively in executive leadership meetings, aligning operational strategies with broader business goals and contributing to strategic decision-making.
• Process Improvement: Lead significant organizational changes and process improvements, optimizing operational efficiency and adopting best practices in operations management.
• Project Quotation Leadership: Take the lead on generating and managing large customer quotes for projects, with a focus on hospitality environments and multifamily housing. This role involves collaborating with sales, customer service, and finance teams to develop competitive, accurate quotes that align with standards for quality and value, ensuring our offerings meet the diverse needs of our customers.
• Logistics and Freight Contract Management: Direct responsibility for negotiating and managing contracts with ocean freight and domestic freight providers, including LTL carriers, UPS, and FedEx. This entails optimizing logistics strategies for inventory transportation to ensure cost-efficiency, reliability, and alignment with operational requirements and timelines.
• Executive Leadership: Partner with peer executive leadership team members to develop and provide strategic direction, ensure resources are available to achieve the organization's strategic objectives, and resolve critical issues that impede organizational success in alignment withmission, vision, and core values of integrity, innovation, and quality.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of experience in operational leadership, preferably in manufacturing or consumer goods, focusing on demand forecasting, purchasing and logistics.
• A minimum of 3 years' experience of higher-level operational leadership required.
• Demonstrated ability to manage and develop high-performing teams, including experience with direct management of customer care, warehouse operations, and external contractors.
• Proficiency in ERP systems and their application in enhancing operational efficiency.
• Exceptional strategic planning, negotiation, and problem-solving skills.
• Effective communication and conflict resolution skills.
• Resilient and adaptable, with a proven track record of leading change in a dynamic business environment.
• Lead demand forecasting and purchasing to align inventory with market demand, accounting for seasonal fluctuations and extended lead times from our Asian manufacturing partners.

Vaco values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ+ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.

EEO Notice

Vaco is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.

Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco LLC and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact .

Vaco also wants all applicants to know their rights that workplace discrimination is illegal.

By submitting to this position, you agree that you will be giving Vaco the exclusive right to present your as a candidate for the foregoing employment opportunity. You further agree that you have represented information about yourself accurately and have not affirmatively misrepresented your qualifications. You also agree to maintain as confidential, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any information you learn from Vaco about the position and you will limit disclosure of information about the position only to the extent necessary to perform any obligations in furtherance of your application. In exchange, Vaco agrees to exercise reasonable efforts to represent you through all solicitation, job screening and resume dispersal.

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Pay Transparency Notice

Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:

• the individual's skill sets, experience and training;
• licensure and certification requirements;
• office location and other geographic considerations;
• other business and organizational needs.

With that said, as required by local law, Vaco believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.