Director, Supply Chain

Operations · Full-time · NJ, United States

Job description

Phillip Jeffries is looking for a leader to join our Supply Chain Team!

As the Director of Supply Chain, this role is to elevate and transform Phillip Jeffries' global supply chain operations, ensuring excellence in procurement, inventory management, and logistics. By designing and implementing strategic initiatives that align with our mission, this role ensures we deliver unparalleled quality and service to our customers while driving innovation and operational efficiency. The Director of Supply Chain plays a critical role in shaping the future of the company by fostering resilience, creating value, and championing sustainability within our supply chain processes. This role exists to inspire excellence, streamline operations, and create a cohesive network of global partners, enabling Phillip Jeffries to remain a leader in the industry and a trusted brand for our clients worldwide.  This position will report directly to the Vice President of Supply Chain.

What you will be doing:

Leadership:

  • Being a steward of Phillip Jeffries’ Great & Worthy Purpose (GWP), Mission, Vision and Values and having apprentice stewards at every level

  • Provide world-class quality standards to consistently provide customers what they want, when they want it, the way they want it

  • Oversee and manage Direct and Indirect Procurement teams from a process improvement standpoint, maximize output, improve processes, shorten lead times and maintain best in quality

  • Manage the department with lean thinking to increase productivity

  • Create backup plans, preventative agreements have consistent flow with no breakdowns in process

  • Commit to personal development, inspiring my team to do the same

Strategic Management:

  • Propose a compelling 2-year, future-state Supply Chain strategy

  • Proactively monitoring and assessing Supply Chain trends, emerging practices and industry benchmarks to anticipate and respond to evolving Supply Chain needs

  • Streamline and optimize Supply Chain processes and systems to improve operational efficiency

  • Leverage technology solutions to automate workflows, enable data-driven decision making and enhancing Supply Chain analytics capabilities

  • Collaborate with leadership and cross-functional teams

  • Change the planning and forecasting module after migrating to new ERP system

  • Establish forecasting and planning system with mills to reduce lead times

Direct Procurement

  • Establish strategic sourcing plans for goods and services

  • Analyze risk involved in the sourcing strategies of mills

  • Build the right structure for sourcing of goods and services by regions and country

  • Identify and mitigate risks based on laws and regulations

  • Manage the relationship with country authorities and complying with all country rules for import and export

  • Propose strategies for domestic and overseas procurement

  • Maintain a strong network of vendors worldwide

Pricing

  • Propose negotiation strategies and guidelines for purchased products

  • Create strategies for sourcing of goods and services

  • Recommend guidelines for purchasing of goods and services

  • Implement and improve Internal SLA’s that help to facilitate the purchasing of goods and services’

Reporting and  Analysis:

  • Report any shortages of supply of raw materials or finished goods

  • Analyze risks and identify alternative solutions

  • Propose guidelines for partners contribution to PJ business

Must Have:

  • Bachelor’s degree in finance or supply chain, plus 10+ years’ experience in procurement

  • CPIM or CPM; preferred

  • Understanding and utilization of DP setup, forecast and planning

  • Strong negotiation skills

  • Leadership skills and manage overseas team

  • Preferably a background in textiles

  • Must have experience with Direct/Indirect Procurement

  • Microsoft applications with intermediate in excel & PowerPoint, outlook.

  • Experience managing deadlines

  • Understanding of budgets & compensation plans

  • Excellent presentations skills

  • Ability to hire, train, & manage a team

  • Experience managing team in different roles and in remote positions.

  • “Can-do” attitude, willingness to roll up sleeves and get dirty

  • Project management skills

  • Team player: excellence in collaboration with our other departments

Why Phillip Jeffries?

As a purpose-driven organization, we truly believe that where you work matters. We are committed to creating an organization with a higher purpose, a place where our talented team can truly flourish. Phillip Jeffries believes in creating an environment with opportunities to grow personally and financially, offering volunteer opportunities that support our community and environment as well as extending a rich benefits package to care for our most valuable assets, our team.

Compensation Benefits:

  • Competitive salary

  • Company bonus program

  • Annual Cost of Living Increase

  • Retirement Plan - company automatically contributes approximately 10% of your annual compensation

Health Benefits:

  • Medical Coverage – low cost to the employee ($30 per month)

    • Spouse/ Domestic Partner/ Civil Union Partner Coverage
    • Family Coverage
  • Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)

  • Prescription Plan

  • Dental and vision coverage

  • Tax advantages through Flexible Spending Accounts that allow you to pay for specific healthcare and dependent care expenses with pre-tax dollars

Other PJ Perks & Benefits:

  • 20 Paid days off per calendar year

  • 10 Paid holidays

  • Detailed onboarding plans that outline 30/60/90 goals and trainings.

  • Earn Paid time off for community service - Up to 3 days per year

  • Employee Discount on PJ Wallcoverings

About Us:

Phillip Jeffries, the world’s leader in natural, textured and specialty wallcoverings, has been providing award winning designs to the architectural and interior design community for over 40 years.  With a diverse collection of product, Phillip Jeffries has provided luxury goods that grace the walls of properties such as the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas and the Barney’s New York stores as well as luxurious homes throughout the world. To learn more about Phillip Jeffries, please visit us at www.phillipjeffries.com.

Phillip Jeffries is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity, inclusion, and equality in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law.


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