Supply Chain Manager

Supply Chain Manager:

Position Summary

The Supply Chain Manager oversees end-to-end supply chain planning and supplier execution for Developlus across demand planning, supply planning, domestic and international sourcing, vendor onboarding and management, procurement coordination, inventory management, and planning systems support. This role is accountable for building disciplined, data-driven planning routines and supplier management practices that support rapid growth, increasing channel complexity, and an accelerating innovation pipeline. The role works closely with Packaging Engineering and cross-functional partners to source and qualify packaging and componentry for existing items and new launches. This role does not own master production planning and does not manage warehouse operations, transportation, or order fulfillment execution.

Core Mandate

• Operate a rigorous monthly cross-functional planning cadence that aligns demand, supply, inventory, and financial targets.
• Improve service and availability through better planning signals and supplier execution, while reducing excess inventory and obsolescence.
• Lead domestic and international sourcing for existing and new items, ensuring supplier readiness to support the innovation pipeline and ongoing supply.
• Coordinate packaging and component sourcing with Packaging Engineering to ensure technical feasibility, specifications readiness, and manufacturability before launch.
• Elevate data quality, planning discipline, and decision support using Sage X3 and standardized reporting.
• Create repeatable operating rhythms with Sales, Marketing, Operations, Quality, and Finance to proactively manage risks and tradeoffs.

Key Responsibilities:

1. End-to-End Planning and Execution Leadership

• Own planning and supplier execution performance across demand planning, supply planning, inventory management, domestic and international sourcing, vendor lifecycle management, and procurement coordination.
• Serve as the day-to-day integrator between Commercial teams, Operations, Quality, Finance, and Data to ensure one aligned plan and clear priorities.
• Translate business needs into planning actions, constraints, and decisions, escalating tradeoffs and risks with clear recommendations.

2. Sales and Operations Planning and Integrated Business Planning Support

• Lead the operating mechanics of the planning process, including calendar, templates, data preparation, and cross-functional inputs.
• Facilitate monthly demand review, supply and capacity review, and inventory and working capital review, ensuring decisions and actions are documented and tracked.
• Build scenarios and quantify tradeoffs across service, inventory, lead times, and cost, surfacing gaps and risks early.
• Maintain a single set of numbers and assumptions across Commercial, Operations, and Finance, and drive follow-through on actions.
• Ensure supplier constraints, international lead times, and sourcing risks are explicitly reflected in monthly plans and launch readiness reviews.

3. Supply Planning and Capacity Coordination (Non–Master Production Planning)

• Develop feasible supply plans by translating demand plans into material and capacity requirements in partnership with Manufacturing and Quality.
• Coordinate constraints, changeover considerations, and critical material availability with Operations to support on-time production and launch readiness.
• Maintain exception-based management for shortages, long-lead materials, and capacity conflicts, driving mitigation plans and escalation as needed.
• Support long-range capacity planning inputs with supplier and material lead time intelligence, including international sourcing lead times and capacity commitments.

4. Inventory and Working Capital Management

• Own inventory health across raw materials, components, work-in-process, and finished goods from a planning and policy perspective.
• Set and maintain planning policies, including segmentation, service targets, reorder parameters, and safety stock logic.
• Drive actions to improve inventory turns and reduce slow-moving and obsolete inventory through root-cause analysis and corrective plans.
• Partner with Finance on inventory valuation drivers, reserves, and working capital reporting.

5. Domestic and International Sourcing and Vendor Lifecycle Management

• Own the end-to-end vendor lifecycle for domestic and international suppliers: identification, evaluation, selection, negotiation support, onboarding, and ongoing performance management.
• Lead sourcing for existing items and new items required to support the innovation pipeline, including primary packaging, secondary packaging, components, and contract manufacturing inputs as applicable.
• Partner closely with Packaging Engineering to ensure technical requirements and specifications are captured, suppliers are technically qualified, and packaging is compatible with product and manufacturing processes.
• Coordinate with international sourcing and procurement partners to identify overseas supplier options, manage quotation and sampling cycles, and align on commercial terms.
• Drive negotiation preparation and execution for strategic suppliers, including pricing, terms, lead time commitments, minimum order quantities, tooling timelines, quality requirements, and escalation paths.
• Establish and govern vendor onboarding standards to ensure documentation, compliance expectations, quality requirements, and systems setup are complete before go-live.
• For international suppliers, coordinate import readiness inputs such as lead time assumptions, production windows, documentation requirements, and risk mitigation plans with internal stakeholders.
• Manage supplier performance through scorecards, corrective action discipline, and regular business reviews, improving delivery reliability, responsiveness, and quality.
• Build resilience through secondary sourcing plans, risk monitoring, and contingency playbooks for critical items and launch-critical components.

6. Procurement Coordination (with Purchasing)

• Partner with Purchasing to align sourcing decisions, purchase execution, and planning signals to prevent shortages and excess.
• Standardize supplier performance expectations and escalation routines in collaboration with Purchasing and Quality.
• Support contract compliance and supplier term standardization by ensuring purchase practices align with agreed terms.
• Provide planning and supplier readiness inputs to Purchasing for new item setup, vendor creation, and purchase order standards.

7. Systems, Data, and Planning Infrastructure (Sage X3)

• Own planning data integrity and planning parameter governance within Sage X3, including lead times, order policies, and item attributes.
• Partner with Information Technology and Finance to improve planning automation, exception reporting, and decision dashboards.
• Drive data governance for bills of materials, routings, lead times, and planning parameters in partnership with cross-functional owners.
• Ensure new item and new vendor master data readiness to support launch timelines and accurate planning signals.

8. Operating Rhythm, Reporting, and Continuous Improvement

• Establish weekly and monthly operating rhythms to manage risks, shortages, supplier performance, inventory health, and launch readiness.
• Create clear reporting on plan adherence, supplier performance, inventory drivers, sourcing progress for new items, and key risks for leadership review.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives that reduce expedite cost, improve planning accuracy, shorten supplier lead times, and improve supplier reliability.
• Document and standardize sourcing and onboarding playbooks so launches and supplier changes become repeatable and scalable.

Key Performance Indicators and Outcomes

• Forecast accuracy by channel and brand
• Service level and fill performance outcomes driven by planning and supplier execution
• Inventory turns and inventory dollars
• Slow-moving and obsolete inventory reduction
• Shortage incidence and expedite cost reduction
• Supplier on-time and complete delivery performance
• Supplier quality performance, including defect rate and corrective action closure
• Domestic and international sourcing cycle time for new items, including time from request to supplier selection and readiness
• Vendor onboarding cycle time and onboarding quality, including documentation completeness and systems readiness
• Purchase price and terms improvement versus baseline
• Secondary source coverage for critical materials and launch-critical components
• Planning master data accuracy in Sage X3

Qualifications

Required

• Seven to ten plus years of experience in supply chain planning, sourcing, procurement coordination, or inventory management in consumer products or manufacturing
• Demonstrated experience running cross-functional planning routines and aligning demand, supply, and inventory
• Experience with domestic and international sourcing, including supplier selection, negotiation support, onboarding, and supplier performance management
• Ability to coordinate packaging and component sourcing with Packaging Engineering and cross-functional partners to support new item launches
• Proficiency with enterprise resource planning systems; Sage X3 experience strongly preferred
• Advanced analytical skills and strong Excel capability; able to translate data into clear insights and actions
• Strong communication skills with the ability to influence across Sales, Marketing, Operations, Quality, Product Development, and Finance
• Structured problem-solving mindset with a track record of driving measurable improvements

Preferred

• Experience in beauty, personal care, or fast-moving consumer goods
• Experience supporting innovation launches and new item introductions
• Professional certifications in supply chain or operations
• Experience with continuous improvement methods such as Lean or Six Sigma