Director of Operations
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Our client is an organization that designs, manufactures, and distributes a portfolio of products and brands, all under the common denominator of design, innovation and purpose.With offices in New York, Milan, Stockholm, and Hong Kong along with factories in Brooklyn and Italy, they are a truly global team with a family-spirit. The client's purpose-driven brands have provided vision-screenings for over 1 million children, and they've planted more than 2 million trees that not only are good for the earth but offer thousands of families out of generational poverty. The role of Director of Operations will create business improvements to maximize profit and improve the service and delivery levels to our customers. In this role, you will oversee a dynamic global supply chain to deliver excellence to the client's organization's priorities. This is a key leadership position in the organization and will report to CEO.Essential functions:- Establish a motivating environment and develop the talent and skills of managers and other employees by offering training opportunities to increase the bench strength (specifically, this position has 2-4 direct reports in-house)- Assist in development of long and short-range planning, policies, programs, and objectives related to global supply chain management; the current supply chain includes 15 factories, 2-4 transit service providers for inbound and outbound shipping, and 2 domestic warehouses) - Build processes that improve productivity, reduce cost, and reduce avoidable errors- Prioritize initiatives that will have the largest effect on the client and its customers and partners- Collaborate with C level in the development an annual operating budget and manage a system of controls (inclusive of KPIs and SLAs) to ensure that service levels and operational performance goals are met- Identify competitive strategies and evaluate, adjust, or redraft the organization's operation processes accordingly ensuring thorough communication of imperatives and action items to the team- Investigate root causes and work with cross-functional areas to provide analysis and recommendations for business operations improvement.- Develop operating, purchasing and capital budgets and re-allocate resources on an on-going basis to optimize use of available resourcesCurrent budgets are $50 million purchasing including inbound transit with 15-20 different vendors, $3 million outsourced warehousing with 2 different vendors, and $3 million outbound transit costs with 2-3 different vendors.Full benefits, 401K matching, informal bonuses, and profit sharing.