Director – Supply Chain Automation

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔗 Supply Chain

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Alo Yoga

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2007

👗 Fashion

🛒 Retail

🧘 Wellness

Fashion • Retail • Wellness

Alo Yoga is a lifestyle brand that is widely recognized for its yoga-inspired athletic wear and accessories. Catering to both men and women, Alo Yoga offers a diverse range of products including clothing, yoga mats, and wellness items. Known for its stylish collections often seen on celebrities like Kendall and Kylie Jenner, the company provides apparel for various activities such as yoga, running, and lounging. Alo Yoga combines contemporary fashion with performance-driven designs, making it a popular choice among fitness enthusiasts and style-conscious individuals.

📋 Description

• Lead the design, deployment, and performance of automation programs across ALO's distribution network • Report to the Vice President, Distribution Center Automation • Partner with the VP to shape ALO's multi-year automation roadmap • Translate the roadmap into prioritized programs, project plans, and resource needs across ALO-operated and 3PL facilities • Evaluate emerging automation technologies through research, site visits, and pilots • Benchmark automation performance against leading retail, e-commerce, and apparel distribution operations • Lead automated DC design from conceptual design and process flow through detailed engineering • Assess and recommend AS/RS, goods-to-person, AMRs, robotics, sortation, conveyance, automated packaging, and vision systems • Develop capacity models, layouts, and simulations supporting growth and peak-volume requirements • Integrate automation with WMS, WCS/WES, labor management, and other distribution platforms • Own end-to-end delivery of automation projects, including scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk • Develop requirements, technical specifications, RFPs, project plans, and budgets; lead vendor evaluations • Lead testing, commissioning, integration, cutover, go-live, and post-go-live stabilization • Ensure operational readiness through testing, SOPs, training, maintenance plans, spare parts, and contingency plans • Build repeatable deployment playbooks and track KPIs including throughput, uptime, accuracy, safety, and cost per unit • Implement preventive and predictive maintenance programs and lead root-cause analysis and continuous improvement • Support lifecycle planning for automation assets • Manage automation providers, integrators, OEMs, and engineering partners; hold them accountable to commitments and milestones • Build capital business cases with ROI, payback, and total-cost-of-ownership analysis • Lead, coach, and grow automation engineers, controls specialists, and project managers • Build team capability and foster technical excellence, urgency, collaboration, and continuous improvement • Manage project budgets and track realized benefits against approved business cases • Travel 30%-40% of the time

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Industrial, Mechanical, or Electrical Engineering, Supply Chain, Operations, or a related field • Master's degree or MBA a plus • 10+ years of progressive experience in distribution, fulfillment engineering, automation, or material handling systems • 5+ years leading distribution center automation projects and engineering or project teams • Hands-on experience taking automation projects from concept and business case through design, commissioning, go-live, and stabilization • Experience in DTC, e-commerce, retail, or apparel distribution strongly preferred • Experience managing automation vendors and integrators on complex, multi-million-dollar capital projects • Experience in high-growth environments where capacity, speed, and scalability are critical • Strong expertise in DC automation and material handling technologies, including AS/RS, goods-to-person, AMRs, robotics, sortation, and conveyance • Working knowledge of WMS, WES, WCS, PLC/control systems, and physical-to-software integration • Strong understanding of DC process design, capacity modeling, labor productivity, and operational flow • Proven program and project management skills, with a record of delivering on time and within budget • Financial acumen in capital business cases, ROI, and total-cost-of-ownership analysis • Analytical and data-driven, able to explain complex engineering topics clearly to operations and leadership audiences • Strong leadership, communication, and cross-functional influence skills