KERING Senior Supply Chain Specialist - Wholesale

Summary
The Senior Supply Chain Specialist is responsible for leading the end-to-end operational execution of the company's wholesale business, ensuring efficiency, visibility, and alignment across all stages of the order lifecycle. Serving as a primary point of contact for brand partners, this role operates as a strategic liaison between brand teams and internal operations, driving seamless communication, proactive issue resolution, and high service levels.

This position plays a critical role in enabling operational excellence for a portfolio of luxury brands, overseeing core processes including order prioritization, allocation, invoicing, return authorizations, and performance tracking. The role ensures that key operational and financial KPIs are effectively monitored, analyzed, and communicated to support data-driven decision-making.

Acting as a central coordination hub, the Senior Supply Chain Specialist partners cross-functionally with Origin teams, Sales, Buying Offices (internal and external), Finance, Inventory Control, Accounts Receivable, and Third-Party Logistics providers. The role is accountable for driving alignment across stakeholders, removing operational roadblocks, and ensuring end-to-end process integrity from order intake through final delivery and invoicing.

This position drives strategic visibility and operational accountability across the wholesale supply chain, ensuring alignment between commercial objectives and execution capabilities.

Job Description

KERING Senior Supply Chain Specialist - Wholesale

Job Family: Logistics/Supply Chain

Job Title: Senior Supply Chain Specialist - Wholesale

Location: Wayne, NJ

Kering is a global, family-led luxury group, home to people whose passion and expertise nurture creative Houses across couture and ready-to-wear, leather goods, jewelry, eyewear and beauty:
Gucci, Saint Laurent, Bottega Veneta, Balenciaga, McQueen, Brioni, Boucheron, Pomellato, Dodo, Qeelin, Ginori 1735, as well as Kering Eyewear. Inspired by their creative heritage, Kering Houses design and craft exceptional products and experiences that reflect the Group's commitment to excellence, sustainability and culture. This vision is expressed in our signature:
Creativity is our Legacy.

HOW YOU WILL CONTRIBUTE

End-to-End Visibility & Analytics

• Own the analytical tracking and reporting of the wholesale order lifecycle (from market to invoicing), providing actionable insights to Sales, Merchandising, and leadership teams

• Develop and maintain KPI reporting to measure performance across order intake, allocation, fulfillment, and invoicing

• Identify trends, risks, and performance gaps, and translate findings into clear recommendations

Forecast Alignment & Financial Impact

• Partner with Finance, Demand Planning, and Wholesale teams to validate forecast accuracy and ensure alignment with operational execution

• Analyze variances between forecast, pipeline, and actuals, highlighting risks to revenue realization

SAP & EDI Order Management (Core Expertise)

• Serve as the subject matter expert for SAP order processing and EDI integration (850, 860, 856, 810), ensuring data integrity and process reliability

• Oversee the monitoring and validation of EDI purchase orders, ensuring accurate ingestion into SAP and compliance with customer-specific requirements

• Proactively identify and resolve systemic data issues (pricing discrepancies, SKU mismatches, delivery constraints) impacting order execution

Process Optimization & Issue Resolution

• Conduct root cause analysis on supply chain and order management issues, driving corrective and preventive actions

• Lead initiatives to standardize and optimize workflows across brands, improving efficiency and scalability-particularly in SAP and EDI processes

• Act as SME for cross-functional projects, including system enhancements and post-migration stabilization efforts

Cross-Functional Leadership & Alignment

• Drive alignment between US Sales, European Customer Service, Operations, Finance, Inventory Control, and Logistics teams

• Lead structured governance cadences (weekly/monthly) with brands, focusing on performance insights, risks, and resolution plans-not just status updates

• Ensure…