Director of Global Supply Chain

This brand has cracked the hard part: launching new designs fast and letting demand decide what deserves to scale. Now the supply chain needs to catch up. You'll build a hybrid model where proven bestsellers move through local stock, while the long tail stays flexible through dropshipping and on-demand production, with local manufacturing coming later. There's no playbook, no existing ops team, and no one else to hand this to. You'll build it, run it, and own the numbers. This is a fully remote, full-time role. Netherlands-based candidates can be hired as employees; everyone else is brought on as a contractor. WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOUA blank canvas. No legacy setup or old processes to work around. You decide what gets built.Build the AI yourself. Forecasting, automations and internal tools stay in your hands.Own the full picture. From strategy and suppliers to packaging, labelling and compliance.See your impact in the numbers. COGS, stock, delivery speed and working capital are all yours to move.Build the team around you. Hire the people and create the structure you think makes sense.Shape what comes next. Local production and on-demand manufacturing are yours to figure out. WHAT YOU'RE GETTING INTODesign the hybrid model. Decide which SKUs stay local, which stay on dropship, and which move to on-demand.Build the forecasting engine. Use data from Shopify, Amazon and TikTok Shop to forecast demand and buy with confidence.Automate order routing. Make sure each order goes through the most efficient fulfilment route.Launch the US marketplace side. Get Amazon and TikTok Shop live and build them into meaningful sales channels.Own the partners. Choose and manage the 3PLs, factories, warehouses and logistics partners.Bring down landed costs and delivery times on the bestseller range, starting from a 7 to 12 day China to US baseline, without overstocking.Build the operational backbone. Set up packaging, labelling, compliance and replenishment processes.Figure out manufacturing. Test whether local or on-demand production makes sense and build the case from the numbers.Build the team and systems. Choose the right OMS, ERP and WMS, then hire the people to run them. WHO YOU AREYou have 6+ years of experience across international DTC, ecommerce or supply chain, more at the senior end if you're stepping in to own the function outright from day one.You've built and managed complex fulfilment operations across multiple warehouses and markets.You understand inventory planning, China sourcing and marketplace operations at scale.You know your way around OMS, ERP, WMS and the data infrastructure connecting them.You're highly hands-on with AI and can build forecasting models, automations and operational tools yourself.You think commercially and take ownership of the numbers your decisions move.You've built complex operations in fast-moving, high-SKU environments and know how to make them scale.Bonus if you've:Launched Amazon or TikTok Shop as a new channel from zeroWorked in a print-on-demand or make-to-order modelBuilt an OMS/ERP/WMS stack from scratch rather than inheriting one