VP Supply Chain

Location: Singapore

Industry: Beauty / Consumer Goods / High-Growth Brand

Function: End-to-End Supply Chain Leadership

The Brief

This is not a “keep the lights on” supply chain role.

This is a chance to build the engine behind a fast-growing consumer brand with ambition, momentum, and just enough complexity to make things interesting.

Our client is a high-growth beauty and consumer goods business with a strong brand, loyal customers, and serious regional potential. Think the energy, creativity, and commercial punch of a global beauty house — but smaller, faster, less political, and far closer to the action.

They are looking for a VP Supply Chain to lead the full end-to-end supply chain across planning, procurement, manufacturing partnerships, logistics, inventory, customer service, and operational excellence.

You will be the person who turns demand into reality.

The person who makes sure growth does not become chaos.

The person who can sit with commercial teams, challenge forecasts, work with suppliers, improve service levels, reduce waste, protect margin, and build a supply chain that can scale across markets.

In short: this is a builder role for someone who knows what great looks like, but still enjoys rolling up their sleeves.

The Mission

The company has grown quickly. That is a good problem.

But growth brings pressure. More markets. More SKUs. More channels. More customers. More complexity. More ways for things to break.

Your job is to build the supply chain backbone that allows the business to keep growing without losing speed, control, or sanity.

You will bring structure without bureaucracy.

You will bring data without drowning people in dashboards.

You will bring discipline without killing the entrepreneurial spirit.

You will bring calm when everything is moving fast.

This is a role for someone who can operate at both 30,000 feet and warehouse floor level — sometimes in the same hour.

What You’ll Own

You will lead the end-to-end supply chain function across the region, including:

Planning & S&OP

You will build a stronger planning rhythm across demand, supply, inventory, and commercial teams. Forecasting needs to become sharper, assumptions need to be challenged, and supply decisions need to be connected to real business priorities.

Inventory & Service

You will balance availability, cash, and complexity. The business needs the right products in the right places at the right time — without turning the balance sheet into a museum of slow-moving stock.

Supplier & Manufacturing Partner Management

You will work closely with contract manufacturers, suppliers, and partners to improve performance, cost, quality, lead times, and accountability. Strong relationships matter, but so do standards.

Logistics & Distribution

You will improve the movement of goods across markets and channels, ensuring the business can serve retail, e-commerce, distributors, and key customers with speed and reliability.

Team & Capability Building

You will assess the current team, identify gaps, develop talent, and build the structure needed for the next phase of growth. This is not just about being the smartest person in the room. It is about making the room smarter.

Systems, Data & Process

You will help professionalize the operating model. Better reporting. Better routines. Better visibility. Better decision-making. Fewer heroic last-minute saves.

Commercial Partnership

You will sit close to the business. Sales, marketing, finance, product, and leadership will need a supply chain partner who understands growth, margin, customers, and trade-offs.

What Success Looks Like

In the first 12 months, success will look like:

• A clearer end-to-end supply chain strategy aligned to business growth
• Stronger S&OP discipline and improved forecast accountability
• Better service levels across key markets and customers
• Improved inventory health and reduced working capital pressure
• More reliable supplier and manufacturing partner performance
• A stronger operating cadence across supply chain, commercial, and finance
• A team that knows where it is going and how it contributes
• Fewer surprises, fewer fire drills, and better decisions made earlier

Who You Are

You are an end-to-end supply chain leader who has likely worked in beauty, personal care, consumer goods, FMCG, retail, or another fast-moving branded environment.

You know how to build process, but you are not a process robot.

You understand that supply chain is not just trucks, warehouses, factories, and spreadsheets. It is brand promise. It is customer experience. It is margin protection. It is cash flow. It is growth enablement.

Ideal Experience

We would love to see experience across:

• End-to-end supply chain leadership in beauty, FMCG, personal care, consumer goods, retail, or a related sector
• Regional supply chain responsibility across Southeast Asia, APAC, or international markets
• Demand planning, supply planning, S&OP, inventory, logistics, procurement, and supplier management
• Working with contract manufacturers and external production partners
• Scaling supply chain capability in a high-growth or transformation environment
• Partnering closely with commercial, finance, marketing, and executive leadership
• Building teams, improving systems, and creating operating cadence
• Singapore-based or able to be based in Singapore

The Twist

This role is not for someone who needs everything perfectly defined before they start.

It is for someone who likes building the map while walking the terrain.

The company is not tiny, but it is not a slow-moving corporate machine either. You will not have endless layers of support, but you will have access, influence, and the chance to make a visible impact.

Why Join?

Because the brand has momentum.

Because the business is scaling.

Because Singapore is a serious regional platform.

Because the supply chain function is ready for its next chapter.

Because there is room to build, shape, lead, challenge, fix, improve, and grow.

And because somewhere between a global beauty giant and a chaotic startup, there is a sweet spot: a company big enough to matter, small enough for your fingerprints to be everywhere, and ambitious enough to make the work fun.

Interested?

If you are a supply chain leader who can bring order to growth, discipline to ambition, and a little bit of magic to the machine behind the brand, we should talk.