VP Global Supply Chain Remote

Vice President, Global Supply Chain

The Vice President, Global Supply Chain is responsible for the strategic leadership and execution of end-to-end retail supply chain operations, including distribution, logistics, inventory management, and omnichannel fulfillment. This role ensures product availability across all channels, including stores, shops in shops, wholesale, franchise and e-commerce channels, both domestic and international, while optimizing cost, speed, and customer experience.

• Supply Chain, Distribution & Logistics
  Oversee distribution center and logistics operations supporting retail stores and e-commerce fulfillment to ensure timely, accurate, and cost-effective product flow.
  Optimize inventory movement across the network to improve in-stock rates, reduce lead times, and enhance delivery performance.
  Ensure compliance with safety, quality, and regulatory standards across all facilities and logistics operations.
  Lead global trade compliance, product regulatory governance, and international transportation strategy, ensuring adherence to sanctions, embargoes, and country-specific import/export regulations.
  Establish and operationalize product-to-market eligibility frameworks, enabling proactive approval or restriction of product sales based on country-specific regulatory, sanctions, embargo, and chemical compliance requirements.
  Establish product-level traceability (including country of origin and chemical composition) and integrate compliance controls into fulfillment processes, ensuring alignment between product data, destination requirements, and order execution.
  Ensure integration of trade compliance, product data, and fulfillment systems to enable automated screening, validation, and decision-making at the product, order, and destination level.
  Oversee recipient and vendor screening, including the expansion of compliance capabilities to cover end customers (B2C and drop-ship models), and ensure adherence to international trade restrictions and denied party regulations.
  Ensure data privacy compliance (e.g., GDPR) and ensure that customer data handling, cross-border transactions, and direct-to-consumer fulfillment models meet applicable global privacy requirements.
  Drive proactive cost management through pre-negotiated global shipping strategies, including evaluation of region-specific constraints (e.g., high-cost or restricted-origin countries) and alignment with traffic/transportation partners to optimize international shipping economics.
  Drive transportation and last-mile efficiency to support omnichannel customer expectations.
  Ensure third-party logistics providers and vendors meet contractual, cost, and service-level requirements.
  Identify and implement process improvements, automation, and technology enablement to increase efficiency and scalability.
  Align supply chain operations with sales forecasts and merchandising strategies, ensuring product availability is aligned with regulatory eligibility across markets.
  Partner with merchandising, planning, finance, store operations, traffic/transportation leadership, legal, product development, and technology teams to align supply chain priorities with revenue, margin goals, shipping rates, regulatory requirements, cost implications, and contingency strategies.
  Lead market expansion readiness efforts, identifying regulatory, logistics, compliance, and cost requirements for new countries in advance of market entry.
  Support executive decision-making on network optimization, capital investments, and growth initiatives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management, Business, Operations, or related field required; MBA or advanced degree preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive supply chain leadership experience, including senior roles in retail, omnichannel, and distribution operations.
• Proven track record of leading large-scale distribution networks and driving operational transformation and continuous improvement.
• Deep expertise in retail supply chain functions, including inventory planning, allocation, fulfillment, transportation, and reverse logistics.
• Experience managing third-party logistics (3PL) providers and vendor partnerships with demonstrated success in improving service levels and cost efficiency.
• Strong financial acumen, including budgeting, cost control, and capital planning.
• Demonstrated ability to lead, develop, and scale high-performing teams across multiple locations.
• Expertise in supply chain technologies (WMS, TMS, ERP) and data-driven decision-making.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders and drive alignment at the leadership level.
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced retail environment, managing peak seasons, demand variability, and rapid growth.