Director of Inventory Management & Logistics

The Role

The Director of Inventory Management & Logistics will own Vee Friends’ inventory management, warehousing, logistics, kitting, fulfillment, and supporting operational systems across a complex, multi-channel consumer business.

This leader will own the physical product journey once goods are produced, partnering closely with the Director of Sourcing on inbound inventory and ultimately owning inventory through storage, allocation, kitting, fulfillment, and delivery.

Today, Vee Friends operates across a specialized vault provider for high-value collectibles, a traditional 3PL supporting eCommerce and wholesale, and a New York-based Live Commerce operation.

The opportunity is not simply to manage this existing network. This person will evaluate the cost, complexity, service levels, scalability, technology, and consumer experience of our current model and develop the long-term operating strategy as Vee Friends scales.

A critical part of the role will also be building the digital infrastructure behind our physical inventory. The Director will work closely with Technology to develop an integrated IMS/WMS environment capable of supporting Vee Friends’ unique collectibles business at scale.

The right candidate will be equally comfortable building a network strategy, negotiating with a 3PL, solving an inventory discrepancy, working with engineers on operational systems, designing a premium kitting process, and walking a warehouse floor to understand why an order isn’t getting out the door.

• Own inventory management across Vee Friends’ growing portfolio of consumer products and collectibles.
• Establish a reliable view of inventory across warehouses, vaults, Live Commerce operations, in-transit inventory, and sales channels.
• Build rigorous processes for receiving, storage, transfers, allocation, cycle counting, reconciliation, fulfillment, and inventory accuracy.
• Own inventory discrepancy, shrinkage, damage, and variance management.
• Establish appropriate controls for rare, serialized, graded, limited-edition, and high-value collectibles.
• Own Vee Friends’ warehousing and fulfillment network strategy, including 3PL, vault, Live Commerce, and potential in-house operating models.
• Manage logistics partners, contracts, SLAs, performance, and economics.
• Lead 3PL evaluations, RFPs, negotiations, implementations, and network transitions as needed.
• Continuously identify opportunities to improve service, scalability, and cost per order.

• Own operational performance from inventory availability through successful customer delivery across DTC, wholesale, Live Commerce, events, and other channels.
• Establish service standards that recognize the different requirements of traditional merchandise versus high-value collectibles.
• Build scalable processes for premium kitting, complex product assembly, and high-end unboxing experiences.
• Coordinate components from multiple suppliers and partners and ensure complete kits are assembled accurately and efficiently.
• Ensure packaging, handling, and fulfillment processes protect collectible condition and preserve the intended consumer experience.
• Build a scalable operating model for Vee Friends’ Live Commerce business, including inventory staging, tracking, reconciliation, and fulfillment.

• Serve as the business owner for Vee Friends’ Inventory Management System (IMS) and Warehouse Management System (WMS) strategy.
• Partner closely with Technology to define operational requirements, evaluate third-party platforms, and determine where proprietary tools are required.
• Build systems capable of providing reliable, real-time inventory visibility across locations and channels.
• Ensure systems can support serialized and individually identifiable products, high-value collectibles, product variants, kits, bundles, and chain-of-custody requirements.
• Reduce reliance on spreadsheets, manual reconciliation, and disconnected inventory data.
• Establish dashboards and KPIs covering inventory accuracy, availability, aging, turns, fulfillment performance, warehouse capacity, logistics costs, and…