Kering Senior Supply Chain Specialist - Wholesale

Overview

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.

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 clear ownership and accountability across stakeholders for order completeness, pricing accuracy, and execution milestones

• Define and monitor critical wholesale KPIs, including order processing accuracy, fulfillment performance, on‑time delivery, and invoicing timelines
• Assess operational performance against routing guides, EDI compliance, and customer requirements, mitigating risks such as chargebacks

• 5+ years of experience in Supply Chain, Wholesale Operations, or Order Management
• Advanced expertise in SAP and EDI order processing (850, 860, 856, 810) required
• Strong analytical skillset with the ability to translate data into business insights and executive‑level messaging
• Advanced Excel (Power Query,…