Senior Director, Operations & Supply Chain

Murdoch Mason Executive Search Group; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 195,000; Full time

Job summary

Murdoch Mason Executive Search Group is conducting a confidential search for a senior operations and supply chain leader with broad experience across outsourced manufacturing, sourcing, supplier management, logistics, and customer fulfillment in consumer products.

This hands-on role requires building and leading teams, improving processes, and partnering across planning, finance, product, and commercial to drive growth while staying close to day-to-day execution.

Qualifications

• Lead operations and supply chain across external manufacturing and logistics.
• Build and develop high-performing teams with clear accountability.
• Improve service, cost, quality, lead times and operating performance.
• Collaborate across planning, finance, product, and commercial functions.

Responsibilities

• Lead key areas of operations and supply chain across external manufacturing, suppliers, logistics, and fulfillment.
• Manage and develop a team while creating clear accountability and operating discipline.
• Strengthen external manufacturing and supplier relationships.
• Improve service, cost, quality, lead times, and operating performance.
• Partner across planning, finance, product, commercial, and other functions.
• Build scalable processes, systems, workflows, and performance measures as the business grows.
• Help evaluate and improve external partners and operating infrastructure.
• Stay close enough to the work to solve problems directly when needed.

Skills

Operations leadership

Supply chain management

Vendor/third-party management

Team leadership

Tools

ERP systems

Data analysis

Job description

We’re conducting a confidential search for a senior operations and supply chain leader with broad experience across outsourced manufacturing, sourcing, supplier management, logistics, and customer fulfillment within consumer products.

This is a hands‑on leadership role for someone who has worked in growing organizations and can operate effectively across both strategy and execution. The right person has managed external manufacturing, co‑manufacturing, and supply partners; led teams; improved operating processes; and worked cross‑functionally to support growth.

You should be comfortable moving between supplier conversations, operating issues, team leadership, and longer‑term process improvement. This is not a role for someone who has only owned one narrow piece of the supply chain or who is several layers removed from day‑to‑day execution.

What you’ll do

• Lead key areas of operations and supply chain across external manufacturing, suppliers, logistics, and fulfillment
• Manage and develop a team while creating clear accountability and operating discipline
• Strengthen external manufacturing and supplier relationships
• Improve service, cost, quality, lead times, and operating performance
• Partner across planning, finance, product, commercial, and other functions
• Build scalable processes, systems, workflows, and performance measures as the business grows
• Help evaluate and improve external partners and operating infrastructure
• Stay close enough to the work to solve problems directly when needed

What we’re looking for

• 10+ years of progressive experience in operations, supply chain, manufacturing, sourcing, or a related field
• Significant experience in consumer products
• Direct responsibility for outsourced or third‑party manufacturing relationships
• Broad supply chain experience that extends beyond a single specialty such as planning, procurement, transportation, or warehousing
• Experience managing third‑party logistics and customer fulfillment
• Direct people‑management experience, including coaching, performance management, and developing stronger teams
• Experience working in a lean, growing, or changing organization where processes and infrastructure still needed to be built
• Strong operational judgment with the ability to identify problems, create solutions, and drive measurable results
• Experience working with ERP systems and operational data

Experience with process automation, workflow improvement, new product commercialization, or technology‑enabled operating improvements is a plus.

Location

Candidates must currently be based in the San Francisco Bay Area and available for regular in‑person work. This is not a remote position.

Compensation

The expected base salary range is $165,000-$195,000, depending on experience, plus an annual bonus and equity.

Company details will be shared directly with qualified candidates during the process.