VP, Fulfillment Planning and Optimization

Stord; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Stord, The Consumer Experience Company, seeks a VP, Fulfillment Planning and Optimization to own the end-to-end process translating customer demand into operational readiness across the fulfillment network.

You will lead S&OP, labor planning, and readiness programs, partnering with CX, Operations, and Support to ensure on-time delivery and scalable growth.

Qualifications

• Significant experience owning S&OP, workforce planning, labor planning, capacity planning, or network planning at scale.
• Deep understanding of how forecasts translate into labor hours, productivity, space and capacity.
• Track record of operating in fast-changing demand with financial impact.
• Strong analytical skills with an operator's instinct and cross-functional drive.
• Exceptional program management across senior leaders and multiple functions.
• Experience building planning processes and teams that scale with growth.

Responsibilities

• Own the S&OP process across the fulfillment network, creating a single operating view of demand and resources.
• Translate forecasts into site-, shift-, and time-specific operating requirements.
• Identify forecast risk and create clear scenarios for upside and downside.
• Establish a consistent planning cadence across customers, sites, and functions.
• Translate demand into a comprehensive workforce plan with hiring and training implications.
• Track labor demand vs. delivery and surface gaps early for intervention.
• Ensure readiness inputs from MHE, EHS & Facilities, Procurement, IE, and Training.
• Monitor forecast accuracy and update plans as volume changes.

Skills

S&OP ownership

Labor planning

Cross-functional leadership

Analytical thinker

Program management

Scalable planning

Job description

Stord is The Consumer Experience Company, powering seamless checkout through delivery for today's leading brands. Stord is rapidly growing and is on track to double our revenue in the next 18 months. To meet and exceed this target, Stord is strategically scaling teams across the entire company, and seeking energetic experts to help us achieve our mission.

By combining comprehensive commerce-enablement technology with high-volume fulfillment services, Stord provides brands a platform to compete with retail giants. Stord manages over $10 billion of commerce annually through its fulfillment, warehousing, transportation, and operator-built software suite including OMS, Pre- and Post-Purchase, and WMS platforms. Stord is leveling the playing field for all brands to deliver the best consumer experience at scale.

With Stord, brands can increase cart conversion, improve unit economics, and drive sustained customer loyalty. Stord’s end-to-end commerce solutions combine best-in-class omnichannel fulfillment and shipping with leading technology to ensure fast shipping, reliable delivery promises, easy access to more channels, and improved margins on every order.

Hundreds of leading DTC and B2B companies like AG1, True Classic, Native, Seed Health, quip, goodr, Sundays for Dogs, and more trust Stord to deliver industry-leading consumer experiences on every order. Stord is headquartered in Atlanta with facilities across the United States, Canada, and Europe. Stord is backed by top-tier investors including Kleiner Perkins, Franklin Templeton, Founders Fund, Strike Capital, Baillie Gifford, and Salesforce Ventures.

About the Role

Stord is looking for a VP, Fulfillment Planning and Optimization to own the end-to-end process that translates customer demand into operational readiness across our fulfillment network. This leader owns Stord's Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP) process, converting customer and order forecasts into a clear operating plan: the labor, infrastructure, training, and support required to execute against demand. Sitting at the intersection of Customer Experience, Operations, and Operations Support, this person program-manages the full cycle from forecast through operational requirements, resource delivery, actual performance, and reforecast.

What You'll Do

S&OP & Demand Planning

Own Stord's S&OP process across the fulfillment network, creating a single operating view of expected customer demand and the resources required to support it.

• Partner with CX and customers to understand expected order volume, promotions, launches, seasonality, and other demand drivers.
• Translate customer forecasts into site-, process-, shift-, and time-specific operating requirements.
• Validate customer forecasts using leading operational indicators, including inbound inventory and historical demand patterns.
• Identify forecast risk early and create clear scenarios around upside, downside, and expected demand.
• Establish a consistent planning cadence across customers, sites, and support functions.

Labor Planning

Translate demand into a comprehensive workforce plan across Stord's fulfillment network.

• Determine labor requirements by site, shift, process path, and time horizon.
• Partner with Operations and People teams to ensure hiring, staffing, scheduling, and training plans can deliver against demand.
• Track labor demand against actual labor delivery and surface gaps early enough to intervene.
• Build planning models that account for productivity, attendance, attrition, ramp curves, seasonality, and other operational realities.
• Continuously improve the accuracy and responsiveness of Stord's labor planning models.

Operational Readiness

Turn the operating forecast into requirements for the teams responsible for enabling Operations.

The forecast should trigger a coordinated readiness plan across:

• MHE: equipment, capacity, maintenance, and material-handling requirements.
• EHS & Facilities: building readiness, safety requirements, space, and facility capacity. Procurement: supplies, packaging, equipment, and other operating inputs.
• Industrial Engineering & Continuous Improvement: capacity, process design, building layout, productivity, and future-state operating models.
• Training: training capacity, onboarding requirements, cross-training, and workforce readiness.

You will ensure these teams understand what is coming, what Operations will require, when it is needed, and whether delivery is on track.

Readiness Program Management

Own the program-management layer connecting S&OP to execution.

• Convert the S&OP plan into specific requirements, owners, milestones, and delivery dates across support functions.
• Maintain a single view of operational readiness across the network.
• Track dependencies and elevate risks before they become operational failures.
• Hold teams accountable for delivering the resources required to support forecasted demand.
• Create clear executive visibility into where the network is ready, where it is at risk, and what intervention is required.

Close the loop between planning and reality.

Once volume begins flowing through the network, this leader owns the process for understanding:

What did we forecast? What actually happened? Why was it different? What needs to change now?

• Monitor actual inbound and outbound volume against forecast.
• Measure forecast accuracy by customer, site, and relevant operating horizon.
• Use actual inbound volume and other leading indicators to continuously validate and refine outbound forecasts.
• Understand whether misses were caused by customer forecast accuracy, internal planning assumptions, labor delivery, productivity, or operational execution.
• Feed those learnings back into S&OP and continuously adjust labor and resource plans.
• Build a planning organization that becomes increasingly accurate as Stord scales.

What You'll Bring

• Significant experience owning S&OP, workforce planning, labor planning, capacity planning, or network planning at scale inside a large, complex fulfillment, distribution, retail, manufacturing, or logistics network.
• Deep understanding of how order forecasts translate into labor hours, productivity requirements, equipment, space, training, and operating capacity.
• A track record operating where demand shifts quickly and planning mistakes carry immediate operational and financial consequences.
• Strong analytical skills paired with an operator's instinct: comfort challenging assumptions from both Operations and planning teams, and a bias toward whether the plan actually works on the floor.
• Exceptional cross-functional program management skills, able to drive accountability across senior leaders and create structure across functions without directly managing every team involved.
• Experience building planning processes, systems, and teams that scale with a rapidly growing business.