Vice President Replenishment

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

The VP of Replenishment Strategy and Innovation is a senior supply chain leadership role responsible for setting enterprise replenishment strategy, optimizing inventory performance, improving service levels, and driving working capital efficiency. This leader partners closely with senior supply chain leadership, regional and market executives, field buying teams, and cross-functional partners to ensure replenishment practices, systems, and performance metrics align with business goals. The role requires a strong strategic operator who can translate business priorities into scalable replenishment processes, lead in a functionalized organization, leverage forecasting and replenishment technologies, and hold leaders accountable for measurable performance outcomes.

Successful candidates should bring deep expertise in replenishment, demand planning, inventory optimization, supplier planning, and KPI-driven performance management, ideally within a food, distribution, or similarly complex supply chain environment. Given the scale of responsibility, talent selection should emphasize executive presence, analytical rigor, change leadership, cross-functional influence, and the ability to modernize processes through data, systems, and industry best practices.

CRITICAL SKILLSETS FOR TALENT SELECTION

·      Enterprise replenishment and supply chain expertise: Demonstrated mastery of replenishment strategy, buying practices, demand planning, supplier planning, inventory optimization, service level management, and working capital tradeoffs.

·      Strategic leadership and execution: Ability to develop long-term replenishment strategy while translating objectives into practical policies, procedures, tools, and operating rhythms that improve performance.

·      Analytical and KPI-driven decision making: Strong capability to interpret performance data, establish targets, diagnose root causes, and drive accountability across service levels, inventory control, product cost accuracy, and AOP metrics.

·      Systems orientation and process innovation: Experience leveraging forecasting systems, replenishment tools, benchmarking, and emerging technologies to modernize processes and improve consistency across the organization.

·      Cross-functional influence and stakeholder management: Ability to build trusted relationships with region, area, and market executives as well as operations, sales, finance, logistics, category management, HR, legal, IT, customers, suppliers, and brokers.

·      Executive communication: Highly developed written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to communicate replenishment strategy, performance, risks, and priorities clearly to senior leadership.

·      Change leadership and continuous improvement mindset: Capacity to introduce forward-thinking practices, lead adoption of best-in-class processes, and sustain continuous improvement across a complex, distributed organization.

·      Team leadership: Proven ability to lead through senior replenishment leaders, directors, managers, and field teams at scale, including coaching, training, capability building, and performance management.