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We Create Products and Brands That People Trust to Clean, Sanitize, and Protect Their Homes, Pools, and Cars.

When you join KIK Consumer Products, you’re joining a team who cares about the work we do and also about each other. We bring exceptional brands and products to consumers that help them protect the health and wellness of their families, the cleanliness of their homes and pools, and the life of their automobiles. We are committed to building a culture of performance driven by accountability, empowerment, collaboration, and agility that enables timely fact-based decisionmaking and exceptional execution with unwavering ethics. As one of North America’s largest independent manufacturers of consumer products, KIK helps a large portfolio of brands and retailers bring their products to life.

Your Role at KIK

As the Vice President of Supply Chain, you will be instrumental in shaping and delivering on KIK’s ambitious vision to accelerate our Pool line of business into new geographies, distribution channels, and product categories. You will take our Supply Chain maturity and capabilities to the next level, focusing on our strategic direction, capabilities, processes, and tools. Day-to-day, you will lead a team of supply chain professionals specialized in Logistics, and Inventory Management. Specifically, your team will be responsible for delivering excellent performance in inventory control, vendor management, quality, and operating costs.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Develop inventory planning and distribution strategies.

• Diagnose supply chain challenges, anticipate evolving areas of growth, and ensure prompt support for necessary system, process, and physical improvements.

• Partner to optimize logistics networks and evaluate the impact of proposed logistics changes, such as routing, shipping modes, utilization, and carriers across the distribution network.

• Set and execute the long-term vision and strategy for the function, focusing on key differentiators, new innovations, capabilities, and team structure.

• Establish a strategic approach to all aspects of our supply chain, driving value for our customers, optimizing cost, enhancing agility, and lowering risk.

• Collaborate with our Technology team to uplevel our tools and systems, driving best-in-class data visibility and decision-making.

• Own the P&L for major cost categories and drive cost improvements across raw materials, inbound freight, warehousing, and outbound shipping.

• Build dynamic performance metrics and analyses to drive efficiency and operational decision-making.

• Oversee the inventory planning process and maintain supply levels that optimize manufacturing plans and meet high growth in demand.

• Foster strategic relationships with many of the company’s most important external partners, including raw material suppliers, logistics providers, and advisors.

• Implement negotiation strategies to maximize leverage control, steer complex situations, and create the best outcome for the business.

• Oversee management and direction of the Supply Chain team, including hiring, performance management, and organizational structure

• Serve as a thought partner to other senior leaders as a key member of the Operations leadership team.

• Lead continuous improvement and operational excellence activities.

• Drive a culture of innovation and success that values diverse voices, talents, identities, backgrounds and experiences.

What You’ll Bring

• Bachelor’s Degree in Supply Chain, Business, or Engineering

• Six Sigma Black Belt, PMP, Lean Certifications a plus.

• 10 years of people leadership experience with 15 years or more of supply chain experience in a consumer-packaged goods or similar manufacturing environment

• Supply chain leadership experience at a large and/or publicly traded company

• Ability to lead long-term, cross-functional strategy efforts with minimal guidance

• Track record of P&L ownership and driving operational cost improvements

• Experience building and leading a high-performing, multi-layered team

• Successful track record of developing operational excellence and scalable processes

• Exceptional communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills

• Working experience in consumer good.

• Past operations role at a high-growth company

• Proficiency in NetSuite, data visualization software, or data warehouse solutions

• Familiarity with operations-specific software platforms (ERP, MRP, WMS, TMS, etc.)

What You Will Get

KIK offers very competitive salary and comprehensive benefits including health, wellness, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance. You can plan for your future with KIK's retirement savings options including employer match. KIK also recognizes the importance of continuing education and offers Education Assistance to our employees to encourage continued personal development and growth.

About KIK

We create the products and brands that people trust to clean, sanitize, and protect their homes, pools, and cars. We are one of North America’s largest independent consumer product manufacturers with 20 North American manufacturing facilities. We also operate globally in Europe, Asia, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. We are known by our portfolio of over 40 brands including Spic and Span® and Comet® cleaning products, Clorox® Pool&Spa™ (under license), BioGuard®, and Natural Chemistry® pool chemicals, and Prestone® and Holts® automotive performance chemicals. We are also the #1 producer in North America for store-brand (“private label”) bleach and a leading private label provider of laundry detergent and additives, dishwashing products, general purpose cleaning and other home care products.

Our global team of over 2,500 employees drive our capabilities in product development, product formulation, strategic sourcing, manufacturing, packaging design, brand marketing, project management, quality assurance, compliance, distribution, and logistics.

Our organization is constantly evolving and is driven by a set of “One KIK” values – a dedication to following through on commitments in a customer-focused, profit-motivated way; while never compromising on safety, ethics, or integrity.

KIK is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. KIK does not discriminate against qualified applicants or employees on the basis of race, color, age, religion, sex, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, veteran status, status in uniformed services, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, genetic information or any other status protected by law.

KIK is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, or to perform the essential functions of the job, please contact Human Resources immediatel