🧴 Senior Director, Contract Manufacturing

📍 USA (North Carolina, Hybrid)

We’re partnering with a high-growth personal care brand scaling rapidly across DTC and retail channels, now looking to hire a Senior Director of Contract Manufacturing to lead their global production network.

This is a critical leadership hire focused on building and optimising a best-in-class manufacturing ecosystem across multiple CDMO partners.

🚀 The Role

You’ll own the end-to-end contract manufacturing strategy, working closely with internal teams and external partners to scale production, improve performance, and support continued commercial growth.

🎯 Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a global network of contract manufacturers (CDMOs) across personal care categories
• Drive capacity planning, production scaling, and supplier performance
• Implement and optimise S&OP processes across demand, supply, and inventory
• Partner with Product, R&D, and Quality teams to ensure seamless product launches
• Improve OTIF, lead times, and operational efficiency across manufacturing partners
• Lead cost optimisation and margin improvement initiatives
• Identify and onboard new manufacturing partners to support growth

💥 Ideal Profile

• 10+ years in manufacturing / supply chain leadership within:
• Personal care / cosmetics
• FMCG
• CDMO / contract manufacturing environments
• Strong experience managing:
• External manufacturing networks (CDMOs)
• Scaling production in high-growth environments
• Proven track record of:
• Improving supplier performance + operational KPIs
• Driving cost, margin, and efficiency improvements
• Highly collaborative, with experience working cross-functionally across:
• Product / R&D
• Supply Chain
• Commercial teams

⭐ Why this role?

• Join a fast-scaling brand with strong market traction
• High-impact role with visibility across leadership and strategy
• Opportunity to build and shape a global manufacturing network

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