Director, Customer Supply Chain Optimization

🔥 4 hours ago

🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $143.1k - $228.9k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

🔗 Supply Chain

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Ventura Foods

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1001 - 5000 employees

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

Logistics • Consulting • Marketing

Ventura Foods is a company that specializes in the production and manufacturing of high-quality food products, focusing on culinary solutions for various sectors. They are involved in operations that include manufacturing, engineering, quality assurance, and supply chain management, with a commitment to employee development and customer satisfaction. The company is also dedicated to maintaining a high standard of operations through research and development, ensuring innovation in their offerings.

📋 Description

• Build strong partnerships with customer supply chain teams to align strategies, improve service levels, and co-create mutual value. • Lead joint planning, identify pain points, and drive collaborative initiatives that enhance performance, reduce costs, and optimize network efficiency. • Analyze end-to-end supply chain processes across VF and customer networks to identify inefficiencies and improvement opportunities. • Drive service enhancements, policy changes, and operational standardization to improve delivery, reduce costs, and eliminate friction points such as lead times and order variability. • Leverage data, analytics, and digital tools to assess trade-offs across cost, service, inventory, and working capital. • Develop dashboards, scorecards, and predictive insights to monitor performance, quantify opportunities, and proactively identify risks. • Lead cross-functional and cross-company supply chain initiatives, including customer network optimization, demand collaboration, and service model innovation. • Build business cases, pilot new solutions, and guide implementation to deliver measurable financial and operational impact. • Act as a change leader aligning Customer teams, Finance, Operations, and Commercial teams around shared goals and performance outcomes. • Establish governance structures, track value realization, and ensure sustainable adoption of new processes and service models.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelors degree is required • 10+ years experience in Supply Chain, including direct people leadership in cross-functional plant operations supporting planning, logistics, production and fulfillment is required • Experience leading projects that include cross-functional teams enterprise wide is required • Ability to travel up to 25% • Lean Practitioner Certification, Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP), MBA preferred • Food products industry highly desirable • Experience working in a manufacturing environment is a nice to have • Prior customer interaction experience is greatly appreciated • CI mindset is wonderful to have • 3PL is good experience to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Prescription, Dental, & Vision – coverage beginning on your 1st day for eligible employees • Profit Sharing and 401(k) matching (after eligible criteria is met) • Paid Vacation, Sick Time, and Holidays • Employee Appreciation Events • Employee Assistance Programs