Senior Manager, Customer Supply Chain Collaboration - Americas
Sol de Janeiro · New York, NY · 3 wk ago
HybridManagement$110k–$130k/yrFull-time
What You’ll Do
- Serve as the primary operations lead for assigned strategic retail accounts, acting as the senior operational counterpart to customer supply chain, logistics, order management, and operations teams.
- Proactively identify critical customer and channel partner needs, ensuring Sol de Janeiro’s operational capabilities meet or exceed expectations.
- Establish and scale a strategic account operating model, defining governance, cadence, metrics, and escalation paths aligned to Perfect Order performance.
- Develop, own, and maintain dual operational scorecards, measuring both Sol de Janeiro and partner performance across service levels, fill rate, OTIF, inventory health, compliance, and cost-to-serve.
- Lead monthly operational reviews and Quarterly Business Reviews (QBRs) with strategic accounts, delivering clear performance insights, trend analysis, risks, and improvement roadmaps.
- Own operational issue management and escalation, ensuring structured root-cause analysis and timely resolution of service, inventory, compliance, or cost challenges.
- Drive operational excellence across order management, sales operations enablement, channel partner relations, and customer-facing supply chain processes.
- Partner closely with Commercial and Account Management teams to support launches, promotions, peak planning, and long-range growth initiatives.
- Represent Operations in senior-level customer discussions, reinforcing Sol de Janeiro as a proactive, reliable, and solutions-oriented partner.
What You’ll Be Working On
- Strategic Account Operations Leadership
- Identify, prioritize, and lead joint process improvement and continuous improvement initiatives with strategic retail partners.
- Drive cross-company projects focused on improving Perfect Order execution—service performance, accuracy, timeliness, visibility, and cost-to-serve.
- Establish standardized best-in-class operational processes, documentation, and governance models that can be scaled across multiple strategic accounts.
- Translate improvement initiatives into measurable outcomes, tracking benefits against agreed KPIs and financial targets.
- Act as an internal champion for operational excellence, sharing learnings and best practices across strategic accounts, Amazon, DTC, and wholesale channels.
- Joint Continuous Improvement & Process Excellence
- Identify, prioritize, and lead joint process improvement and continuous improvement initiatives with strategic retail partners.
- Drive cross-company projects focused on improving Perfect Order execution—service performance, accuracy, timeliness, visibility, and cost-to-serve.
- Establish standardized best-in-class operational processes, documentation, and governance models that can be scaled across multiple strategic accounts.
- Translate improvement initiatives into measurable outcomes, tracking benefits against agreed KPIs and financial targets.
- Act as an internal champion for operational excellence, sharing learnings and best practices across strategic accounts, Amazon, DTC, and wholesale channels.
- Amazon Operations Leadership
- Provide senior-level leadership and oversight of end-to-end Amazon U.S. and UK operational performance across FBA, 3PL, and carrier networks.
- Directly manage and develop the Manager, Amazon Operations, ensuring strong day-to-day execution while maintaining strategic focus.
- Own Amazon operations P&L in partnership with Finance, identifying cost reduction, productivity, and profitability improvement opportunities.
- Ensure timely, accurate inventory flow into the Amazon FBA network & resolution of receiving, inventory accuracy, and reconciliation discrepancies.
- Develop and maintain KPI dashboards covering fulfillment performance, inventory accuracy, returns, and 3PL/cARRIER SLAs.
- Set strategic goals for Amazon operational efficiency and scalability, contributing to future-state fulfillment and network design.
- Lead continuous improvement initiatives across Amazon operations through data-driven analysis, process redesign, and vendor negotiations.
- Cross-Functional Leadership & Executive Communication
- Act as a senior operational leader across internal teams and external partners, aligning priorities and driving accountability.
- Translate complex operational data into clear, executive-ready insights and recommendations.
- Influence long-term network, systems, and capability planning to support growth across strategic retail and Amazon channels.
Must Haves
- Bachelor’s degree with 7–10+ years of experience in operations, supply chain, logistics, or e-commerce environments.
- Demonstrated experience owning operational relationships with large, complex customers or partners.
- Strong financial and analytical acumen, including KPI development, cost-to-serve analysis, and P&L partnership.
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence senior internal and external stakeholders.
- People leadership experience, including managing managers and developing high-performing teams.
- Ability to travel up to 25% annually
- Hands-on experience with Amazon Seller Central and/or Vendor Central environments.
- Experience supporting operations for large retail or wholesale customers.
- Background in beauty, CPG, or consumer goods industries.
- Experience working with or managing 3PLs and complex distribution networks.
- Advanced proficiency in Excel, PowerPoint, and operational reporting tools; experience with ERP systems such as NetSuite or SAP.