Vice President of Distribution

 San Diego, CA

Job ID:
9430
Job Title:
Vice President of Distribution
City & State:
San Diego, CA
Job Region:
West
Seniority:
VP/President
Business Unit:
Distribution
Service Offering:
Fulfillment, Inventory Management
Founded in 1987, our client has grown to become the leading global licensed apparel wholesaler with top brands including Marvel, Star Wars, Disney and Nickelodeon. Their footprint spans multiple continents, with unique locations dedicated to design, customer service, manufacturing, quality assurance and distribution. This enables them to fully meet the needs of every customer, ensuring the best customer experience possible. They are known for setting industry trends, placing us light years ahead of the competition. Every day their goal is to deliver innovative products in every category–from loungewear to t-shirts and more–for thousands of customers throughout the United States and Canada. They are proud to bring to life the best designs & styles for over 100 of the top brand licenses in the world and look forward to continued growth and great partnerships.

Vice President of Distribution
The VP of Distribution is a very important strategic leadership role for the company, responsible for the company’s warehouse operations, staffing and casual labor, certifications, OSHA compliance, and overall distribution processes. The VP also oversees all communications with the company’s 3PLs and leads negotiations, project costing, and capacity planning. In addition, the VP oversees the Inventory Control department across all facilities and is responsible for inventory management and control. This leader must be both “hands on” as well as a strategic thinker who can anticipate issues and future needs for this fast-growing business. He/she must possess the ability to develop a strategy and provide clear direction to the team to ensure success.

Job Type: Full-time

Responsibilities:
  • Provide leadership, education, support, motivation and direction to senior management and direct reports.
  • Develop strategic plan to advance the organization’s distribution objectives to drive increased revenue, profitability, and growth.
  • Create and maintain standard operating procedures to customer facing SLAs and ensure that systems data are maintained, accurate, and cost effective.
  • Develop and manage annual operating budgets for warehouse and distribution in conjunction with EVP of Operations.
  • Work with IT and Continuous improvement to help define and deploy IT systems, automation, and process improvements to support higher volume, future growth, and best in class facilities.
  • Define goals and KPI’s for each team.
  • Work with sales and production teams to evaluate inventory and throughput capacity requirements.
  • Oversee all IC functions, processes, and operations.
  • Oversee the scheduling of physical inventory in all facilities including company warehouses, 3PLs, and vendor locations.
  • Perform analysis, generate reports, and design processes to increase inventory accuracy and team productivity.
  • Provides leadership and assists in planning temporary labor. Oversees and approves all temp work and overtime needs.
  • Works with warehouse teams to design processes/standards and works with the warehouse managers on a plan to enforce and monitor compliance.
  • Reviews and assists the warehouse managers in assessing workload, dealing with situations that require additional resources, and HR related needs and issues.

Experience:
  • Prior distribution P&L ownership. Operations Executive with experience leading distribution operations in a PE environment utilizing kpis to track performance. Apparel/Consumer Products Experience preferred.
  • Proven track record of implementing performance improvement programs in a multi-site DC network including the ability to teach and foster a Continuous Improvement mindset to drive incremental improvements.
  • Experience in a fast-paced, complex environment to drive EBITDA growth in a short time frame.
  • Demonstrated a transformation mindset with financial acumen to drive enterprise value through multiple operational levers in a predominately mass-market wholesale model.
  • Proven capabilities of identifying and developing talent to build high functioning teams to deliver results.
  • Experience overseeing multiple 3PL partners.
  • A clear communicator with proven ability to articulate a vision, gain buy-in from the team and drive change in an ambiguous environment.
  • Experience setting up new DCs, consolidating DCs, WMS implementation & automation to drive productivity up and reduce operating costs.
  • Bilingual (Spanish speaking) is a plus.

This position offers a competitive base salary.

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