Vice President, Supply Chain

About the role

Cohere Beauty is a premier formulator and contract manufacturer serving the beauty, personal care, and fragrance industries. With a library of more than 10,000 formulations, the company helps both legacy and emerging brands accelerate product development and deliver high-quality, market-ready products. Cohere Beauty partners with leading consumer, prestige, salon, OTC, and mass retail brands, producing liquid beauty care products that reach 67 countries worldwide. Production facilities across the U.S. and a team of 27 R&D chemists provide deep expertise in formulation, manufacturing, and packaging, enabling customers to scale and innovate efficiently. Reporting directly to the President, the VP of Supply Chain will translate customer demand, commercial priorities, new product launches and growth objectives into executable supply chain strategies and operating plans across three manufacturing sites. This leader will establish the processes, organizational discipline, systems and visibility required to improve customer service, reduce total cost, increase throughput and productivity, optimize inventory and working capital and support scalable growth. The successful candidate will be a highly operational, low-ego executive who is equally comfortable setting strategy, making executive-level decisions and working directly with teams to solve detailed operational problems. This individual will bring deep experience in batch manufacturing and finished-goods packaging environments and understand the unique challenges of a beauty and personal care CDMO, including demand volatility, customer-specific materials and products, new product introductions, material lead times, inventory exposure, regulatory and quality requirements and aggressive customer service expectations.

Responsibilities

• Provide executive leadership for the company's end-to-end supply chain strategy and execution, ensuring alignment with customer requirements, commercial objectives, manufacturing capabilities, financial goals, and the company's long-term growth strategy.
• Serve as the primary supply chain voice on the executive leadership team, bringing visibility to critical decisions, constraints, risks, opportunities, and required trade-offs.
• Translate customer orders, forecasts, product-mixes, new business, and launch plans into supply scenarios with clear implications for customer service, capacity, cost, margin, inventory, and working capital.
• Lead and continuously improve the company's Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) and Sales & Operations Execution (S&OE) processes.
• Own the weekly S&OE cadence covering the 0–4-week horizon, ensuring timely identification and resolution of material