Director Supply Chain Strategy REI Kent

Job Description
Our Director, Supply Chain Strategy contributes to REI's success by facilitating supply chain strategy & operations focused on revenue growth, margin improvement and differentiated customer experiences within the fulfillment services. Accountability includes supply chain strategy facilitation and organizational adoption, division network expansion execution, division IT roadmap and services, division process improvement focused on DC expense reductions and service improvements.
This job supports and leads the continued development of processes that focus on customer outcomes while evolving to a competitively differentiated REI supply chain. The job provides ongoing leadership over assigned projects within supply chain and informal mentoring of organization alignment.

• Identifies and communicates key responsibilities and practices to ensure the organization promotes a successful attitude, confidence in leadership, and teamwork to achieve business results

• Supports the implementation of company programs, procedures, methods and practices to promote REI key messages

• Oversees training and development of employees directly and indirectly managed and makes effective staffing decisions

• Provides coaching, direction and leadership support to employees in order to achieve department, company and customer results

• Monitors operational statistics, reports trends, variances and issues, and takes appropriate action

• Facilitates an aligned vision and goals throughout the co-op for supply chain objectives, fulfillment customer experience, total cost/margin improvement and lean inventory practices

• Supports VP to strategically inform REI leadership team of supply chain options and vision for decision making

• Acts as the company's leader of supply chain functions in the absence of or upon delegation of responsibilities from the VP, Supply Chain

• Supports and promotes the application of supply chain expertise and methods across business teams to facilitate organizational alignment of key department visions; Retail, IT, Merch, G&A, eCommerce and Supply Chain

• Develops and leads business planning for the Supply Chain division, including cost optimization programs, supply chain capital investment plans, reporting, metrics & budget strategy

• Provides direct leadership over supply chain organizational units; International Logistics, Domestic Logistics, Process Improvement & Supply Chain Technology Services

• Leads a change management, continuous improvement culture based on team development, industry trends, evolving customer expectations and competitive response for the Supply Chain division

• Ensures effective governess of merchandising planning and policies for the delivery of product through direct vendor engagement, routing rules & guide, product flow, fulfillment strategies and inventory optimization

• Develops supply chain information technology plans and oversees implementation of major applications for fulfillment systems, transportation, warehousing and all major applications for supply chain operations

• Manages the company's key supply chain planning functions to ensure the delivery of REI's products and services are cost-effective and efficient

• Ensures effective negotiations with major vendors and that contractual performance standards are met or exceeded

• Provides risk analysis, guidance and planning for the Supply Chain network & DC process improvements to ensure meeting capacity and service expectations

• Monitors and ensures compliance to changing supply chain regulations and laws that may affect the company

• Develops, monitors division level and organization aligning operational statistics, reports trends, variances and issues, and takes appropriate action

Bring your passion and expertise
Five or more years of management experience in domestic supply chain management and logistics for a multi-state retail organization
Bachelor’s degree required: Preferred logistics / planning
Five or more years working in the management of large supply chain organizations with several hundred employees delivering more than 50,000 individual products in a multi-state distribution environment preferred
Multiple department retail experience such as retail operations, logistics, distribution, merchandising, marketing, etc (2 or more)
Experienced in Distribution Center start up including Program Management of Construction, IT, Material Handling and People Transitions

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