Moda Operandi is disrupting luxury fashion retailing by giving shoppers direct access to designers and their collections, as soon as they hit the runways. With $300M raised from top investors and a strong traction worldwide, Moda is uniquely positioned to serve high-end fashion customers for all their wardrobe needs, through a unique combination of digital e-commerce channels, private showrooms and personal stylists. 
The Vice President Supply Chain serves as the senior Supply Chain leader for Moda Operandi, reporting directly to the SVP, Operations. They are responsible for the management and optimization of all supply chain activities including, operations, distribution, customer experience, delivery and logistics. This strategic leader will guide Moda Operandi’s supply chain vision, planning, and execution. They will work closely with other senior leaders, customers, and supplier partners to enhance profitability, create optimal inventory strategies, generate greater productivity, and drive efficiencies across the network.

What You'll Do 

• Be a true strategic business partner and thought leader for the SVP, Operations and Moda Operandi senior leadership team and Board
• Design and develop new and innovative methodologies, processes, and relationships to provide outsourced procurement, sourcing, and manufacturing to emerging designers on the Moda platform.
• Responsible to oversee the supply chain function from purchase order to delivery, including inventory planning, order fulfillment, shipping, delivery, value added services and receiving
• As a member of the senior leadership team, they will participate in setting the strategic and operational direction of the company
• Lead a large team ensuring appropriate functional expertise, establish a vision, and transition easily between strategy and the daily tactics of the business
• Develop inventory strategies to maintain optimal inventory levels to meet desired customer fill rates, achieve inventory turn goals, and avoid supply disruption
• Accountable for integration of supply chain activities across the organization enabling optimal customer service, product supply, and inventory investment
• Build and manage strategic external partnerships with customers, suppliers, and other strategic entities
• Responsible for the China & Hong Kong Operations, overseeing an International team of Quality, Sourcing, Delivery, Logistics, Engineering, and Administration
• Actively collaborate with key strategic suppliers to ensure two-way, collaborative relationships that deliver an operational competitive advantage
• Able to anticipate and implement necessary changes to supply chain strategy and process to support growth and commitments to customers
• Develop and support margin improvement initiatives by developing strategies to address supply chain risk while delivering hard savings
• Drive and enable culture of continuous improvement
• Provide dynamic leadership to build, develop, manage, and evaluate high performing teams
• Responsible for management of multiple sites to drive common solutions and standardization

Who You Are:

• Bachelor’s degree, MBA preferred
• 12-years progressive experience managing and directing a supply chain organization with multiple sites; minimum 5-years in a senior leadership role
• Proven record of accomplishment in supply chain with demonstrated ability to articulate a future vision, business plan and profitability while meeting and/or exceeding corporate goals
• Ability to translate and communicate a strategic plan into tactical goals
• Ability to build cross-functional partnerships and engage in and lead cross-functional teams and initiatives
• Possess personal qualities of integrity, credibility, and commitment to the organizational values
• Demonstrated ability to effectively inspire, develop, and lead a team
• Exceptional executive presence, communication, organizational and interpersonal skills, with strong ability to make decisions and collaborate across the business

Leadership Skills

• Ability to quickly assess an operational situation and deploy resources to resolve
• Excellent written/verbal/presentation skills
• Ability to motivate and inspire
• Collaborative problem solver
• Driver & Doer mentality; goes above and beyond in solving issues
• Open to change, driver of change
• Digs into details of the business; empowers managers to execute
• Champions consistent business approaches and measurement across sites
• Learner / Growth Mindset: Demonstrated recent examples where they invested time into personal continuous improvement
• Planner / Implementor: Strong Penchant for Planning and executing to KPIs
• Displays balance of confidence with authenticity/emotional intelligence/team player
• Good educational background (University or better) + APICS / Six Sigma preferred
• Strong emphasis in Supply Chain Management is preferred over distribution or customer service (ideally the candidate has experience in all 3 areas)
• Slightly fast paced & direct communication style

The job description is to be used merely as a guide of expectations rather than an exhaustive list of all duties and competencies. All requirements and skills are subject to change as business needs evolve.