VP, Supply Chain, North America

About the Role

ZIWI, a global leader in premium pet nutrition, is seeking a Vice President, Supply Chain, North America to lead supply chain performance across one of our largest and strategically important markets. Reporting directly to the General Manager, North America, this role will be a key member of the North American Leadership Team, providing strategic leadership across planning, inventory management, customer service, logistics, distribution, and operations.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of five direct reports, building organizational capability, developing future leaders, and fostering a high-performance culture.
• Ensure the North American supply chain supports ZIWI's growth ambitions, customer commitments, and financial objectives.
• Drive excellence, strengthen supply chain resilience, improve business performance, and build capabilities for market growth.
• Strengthen end-to-end supply chain performance, enhance customer service and logistics capabilities, and embed new technologies and processes.
• Support a successful systems implementation and lead transformation across North America.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive leadership experience across supply chain, operations, logistics, manufacturing, procurement, or related disciplines.
• Proven success leading integrated supply chain organizations within food, pet food, consumer goods, manufacturing, or related industries.
• Deep expertise across planning, inventory management, customer service, logistics, distribution, and operational performance.
• Track record of driving transformation and continuous improvement, including ERP implementations, process optimization, and organizational capability building.
• Strong commercial and financial acumen, balancing growth, customer service, working capital, and operational efficiency.
• Exceptional leadership and stakeholder management skills, with experience building high-performing teams and influencing across complex, matrixed, and global organizations.

Skills

• Ability to build trust quickly, navigate ambiguity with confidence, and create alignment across functions, regions, and stakeholders.
• Balance of big-picture thinking and operational excellence, translating strategy into execution while maintaining focus on customer experience and business performance.
• Respected and influential leadership style, fostering an environment where teams thrive, innovation flourishes, and outstanding results are achieved.

Benefits

• Base salary, annual bonus participation, long-term incentive, full benefits, 401K, PTO.
• Opportunity to lead change, drive operational excellence, and shape the evolution of North America's supply chain within a high-growth global organization.

The role is based in Overland Park, Kansas, and relocation assistance may be considered for the preferred candidate. Only candidates eligible to work in the USA will be considered.