Chief Supply Chain Growth Architect

Custom Flavors; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Custom Flavors is seeking a Vice President of Supply Chain to lead procurement, planning, inventory, and logistics across three facilities. You will build the team, processes, and capabilities necessary to support growth toward $100 million in annual spend while aligning supply chain strategy with operations and financial goals.

The role requires strong leadership, multi-site experience, and a track record of scaling supply chains in regulated manufacturing.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain management or a related field.
• 10+ years of progressive experience in supply chain, procurement, operations, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of senior leadership experience with responsibility for managing and developing teams.
• Experience building or scaling supply chain capabilities in a growing organization.
• Food, flavor, ingredient, chemical, or other regulated manufacturing experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute the company-wide supply chain strategy in support of growth, cost, quality, and working capital objectives.
• Assess current and future supply chain requirements and build the organizational structure, roles, and capabilities needed to support the company at scale.
• Lead and develop the supply chain team, including establishing clear responsibilities, performance expectations, succession plans, and future talent needs.
• Provide leadership for procurement and strategic sourcing across raw materials, packaging, indirect spend, and other key categories.
• Develop category and supplier strategies that improve cost, service, quality, supply security, and overall value to the business.
• Lead major supplier negotiations, contracts, and commercial agreements and establish appropriate supplier performance management processes.
• Develop and maintain strategies to identify, assess, and mitigate supply continuity, capacity, geographic, and single-source risks.
• Establish consistent procurement, planning, inventory management, and logistics processes across all company facilities.
• Lead inventory strategy and performance, balancing service requirements, production needs, working capital, shelf life, obsolescence, and supply risk.
• Partner with Operations and Commercial teams to improve demand, supply, and production planning processes and ensure alignment between customer requirements and supply capabilities.
• Establish supply chain KPIs, reporting, and management routines to improve visibility, accountability, and decision-making.
• Identify and lead cost savings, productivity, and value-creation initiatives across the supply chain while maintaining appropriate quality and service levels.
• Evaluate systems, data, and technology requirements and partner with IT and other functions to develop scalable supply chain tools and capabilities.
• Partner closely with Operations, Finance, Commercial, R&D, Quality, and Regulatory to support new products, new materials, supplier qualification, and changing business requirements.
• Support integration and standardization efforts across facilities as the company grows and evolves

Skills

Leadership

Strategic sourcing

Negotiation

Analytics

Cross-functional leadership

Supply chain optimization

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management or related field

Job description

Custom Flavors is seeking a Vice President of Supply Chain to lead procurement, planning, inventory, and logistics across three facilities. You will build the team, processes, and capabilities necessary to support growth toward $100 million in annual spend while aligning supply chain strategy with operations and financial goals.

The role requires strong leadership, multi-site experience, and a track record of scaling supply chains in regulated manufacturing.