Vice President – Global Warehouse and Supply Chain

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of operational performance across all global warehouse and forward operating base locations.

• Integrate international sites into a unified global supply chain function, establishing common standards, reporting, and system direction while addressing regional needs.

• Oversee the operational budget, which includes labor, freight expenses, and third-party services, while ensuring performance is aligned with the plan.

• Manage headcount planning across all sites, including staffing models, temporary and contract labor, and span of control.

• Identify and implement network cost reductions while creating investment business cases.

• Set and uphold standards for shipment tracking, receiving, put-away, cycle counting, staging, kitting, pick/pack, shipping, returns, and RMA handling.

• Define and establish baseline network performance metrics, such as inventory accuracy, on-time staging, dock-to-stock cycle time, shrinkage, cost per shipment, space utilization, and labor productivity.

• Collaborate with Technical Operations to synchronize material delivery with installation schedules.

• Assess forward operating base openings, consolidations, and closures based on project density and service-level requirements.

• Implement continuous cycle counting and controls for customer-owned, project-allocated, and company-owned serialized inventory.

• Minimize excess, obsolete, and unallocated inventory while ensuring reconciliation between physical inventory and financial records.

• Act as the executive sponsor and accountable owner of the warehouse modernization initiative, which includes WMS selection and implementation, supplier EDI integration, and tracking automation.

• Approve operational design, guide site adoption of new processes, resolve conflicts between local and network standards, and maintain program resources.

• Co-manage investment requests and business cases, presenting them to the EVP and Finance.

• Address supplier and carrier performance issues that impact integration commitments.

• Oversee relationships with carriers, 3PLs, and warehouse leases, including rate negotiations, scorecards, and service recovery.

• Manage cross-border logistics, customs, duties, and trade compliance for international equipment transport.

• Handle escalated supplier relationships, ensuring data quality and ASN compliance.

• Lead a globally distributed team across North America, Europe, and Australia.

• Define roles, set performance standards, develop site leadership, drive process and system changes, and mentor the Manager of Supply Chain Process & Systems.

⛳️ Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in supply chain, distribution, or logistics, including at least 5 years in leadership roles overseeing multi-site operations, ideally across multiple countries or regions.

• Proven experience in managing a multi-site operational budget and headcount plan, including labor models, flexible staffing, and performance against cost targets.

• Demonstrated success in standardizing operations across previously independent locations.

• Experience serving as a business sponsor or owner for systems implementations such as WMS, ERP, or TMS; technical configuration knowledge is not required, but accountability for adoption and business outcomes is essential.

• Familiarity with ERP-driven distribution operations, with a preference for knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365.

• Experience working in a multi-ERP environment, including consolidation, harmonization, or migration of various systems.

• Proven ability to build and present business cases and operating results to executive leadership.

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, logistics, business, engineering, or a related field.

• Preferred: experience in project-based distribution within AV, low-voltage, construction, telecommunications, or similar industries requiring material flow to job sites on scheduled installation dates.

• Preferred: experience with forward operating bases, field depots, or field staging models.

• Preferred: experience managing distribution operations in Canada, the UK, Germany, or Australia, including knowledge of cross-border compliance, customs, and VAT or duty considerations.

• Preferred: experience in managing serialized assets and customer-owned inventory.

• Preferred: experience integrating distribution operations after an acquisition.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses.

• Comprehensive health and wellness benefits.

• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.

• Flexible work arrangements and a supportive work environment.