Vice President - Supply Chain, Americas

Location: Kohler, WI

Opportunity

• This position is responsible for leading the Americas
• Regional Supply Chain organization to industry-leading levels of demand
• planning, customer fulfillment, service reliability, logistics performance,
• inventory deployment, organizational efficiency, and customer experience.
• The leader sets the regional supply chain agenda for Kitchen
• & Bath Americas by translating customer, channel, and market priorities
• into clear demand signals, differentiated fulfillment capabilities, service
• commitments, and operating routines that strengthen growth, loyalty, and
• business performance.
• This role serves as the senior regional voice of the
• customer and market within the consolidated Global Supply Chain model, ensuring
• Americas requirements are represented in planning governance while regional
• execution remains focused on customer-facing supply chain excellence.
• The leader is expected to create competitive differentiation
• through benchmark supply chain practices, AI-enabled execution, digital
• operating tools, advanced analytics, and continuous improvement of fulfillment
• speed, visibility, reliability, and productivity.
• This individual will build a high-performing organization
• that embraces new technologies, simplifies work, improves decision speed, and
• delivers sustained progress in service, cost, cash, responsiveness, customer
• experience, and organizational effectiveness.

Specific Responsibilities

• Set the Americas regional supply chain
• strategy, operating priorities, and performance agenda to support business
• growth, customer loyalty, and Global Supply Chain objectives.
• Lead Demand Planning and commercial
• integration, improving forecast accuracy, forecast value-add, demand signal
• quality, and market intelligence across customer, channel, product, and
• promotional inputs.
• Represent Americas demand, customer, and
• channel requirements within enterprise S&OP, supply planning, inventory,
• and governance processes while maintaining clear regional accountability for
• customer-facing execution.
• Create industry-leading customer fulfillment
• capabilities that improve order visibility, delivery reliability,
• responsiveness, service quality, and customer satisfaction.
• Position supply chain as a source of regional
• competitive advantage by elevating the customer experience through fulfillment
• excellence, proactive service design, and disciplined operating routines.
• Lead Americas Customer Service,
• Transportation, Warehousing, Distribution, Inventory Deployment, Logistics, and
• regional supply chain continuous improvement with a focus on differentiated
• customer experience and productive cost-to-serve.
• Direct regional inventory deployment and
• product availability priorities to balance service, working capital, customer
• commitments, and channel requirements across the fulfillment network.
• Establish executive performance management
• routines and metrics that connect forecast quality, fulfillment reliability,
• customer service, logistics productivity, inventory health, cost, cash, and
• customer experience.
• Continuously benchmark industry-leading supply
• chain, demand planning, fulfillment, logistics, distribution, and customer
• service practices; translate external insights into practical capability
• improvements for Kohler.
• Champion AI-enabled planning, predictive
• insights, automation, workflow simplification, and digital operating tools that
• strengthen execution discipline, accelerate decisions, reduce manual effort,
• and improve organizational efficiency.
• Sponsor digital, analytics, automation, and
• process capabilities that improve planning effectiveness, fulfillment
• visibility, network productivity, and customer-facing performance.
• Build a high-performing regional leadership
• team with clear accountability, strong succession depth, and the capability to
• partner across Commercial, Finance, Operations, IT, Purchasing, Sourcing, and
• Global Supply Chain.
• Lead change with clarity and pace, simplifying
• ways of working, strengthening functional excellence, and creating a culture of
• innovation, accountability, continuous improvement, and trusted
• cross-functional collaboration.