Hybrid Operations Excellence Lead

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About the role

  • Operations Excellence & Strategy Lead for Bloom & Wild overseeing supplier performance, efficiency improvements, and innovative supply chain solutions.

Responsibilities

  • Monitor the performance of our key 3rd party supplier, overseeing a robust governance cadence to ensure KPI delivery and strategic alignment.
  • Independently lead high-value strategic projects which result in improvements in cost, quality or customer experience.
  • Support with quarterly SteerCos and Exec briefings, aligning supplier delivery with internal strategic priorities.
  • Lead "peak" (Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day) retrospectives to turn operational challenges into standardised, scalable improvements.
  • Lead end-to-end Mother’s Day planning, driving alignment across internal teams and 3rd-party supplier to hit key milestones while optimising production plans against quality standards, cost-efficiency, and forecast flexibility.
  • Lead end-to-end projects across both owned and 3rd party production & fulfillment sites to identify efficiencies, streamline processes, and deliver measurable cost savings.
  • Analyze complex operational datasets to establish performance baselines, identify "best-in-class" practices across sites, and pinpoint high-value opportunities for replication or improvement.
  • Act as a flexible "internal consultant", deployed to work flexibly for the VP Operations: Customer Operations or the VP Operations: Production & Supply Chain to deliver value driving projects in owned or 3rd party supply chains.
  • Manage the implementation of new operational standards and processes, ensuring that change is not just launched, but sustained through training and accurate adoption.
  • Collaborate with operational, range and commercial teams to support the development of robust inventory management and fulfilment systems, processes and reporting required to scale a high complexity range of non-floral gifts, foods, home goods.
  • Optimise process to enable further expansion of the “add-on” range without compromising core floral operations.
  • Identify and implement, or lead implementation of, AI-driven opportunities to automate workflows, eliminate human error, and allow our operations to scale vertically without a linear increase in costs.
  • Conduct deep-dive analyses and prepare business cases for VP and exec-level decisions on changes in supply chain, production or fulfillment strategy.
  • Perform analysis on budget and performance variations to identify root causes and actionable insights.

Requirements

  • Consulting Background: Have 3+ years in a consulting environment, where you developed a toolkit for structured problem-solving, building robust business cases, and managing complex stakeholders.
  • Operations Experience: Have hands-on operational experience in a fast-paced e-commerce or retail setting that had its own production, warehousing or fulfillment operations.
  • Analytical & Data-Driven: You don’t just report data; you find the narrative within it to drive decision-making.
  • Pragmatic Strategist: You can move from a high-level business case to the warehouse floor without losing momentum.
  • Expert Influencer: You are comfortable holding 3rd party partners accountable while maintaining a collaborative, commercial relationship.
  • Forward-Thinking: You are excited by the potential of AI to revolutionise traditional logistics and customer service models.
  • Context Switching: You’re someone who can switch easily between big-picture strategic thinking and getting stuck into the day-to-day execution of complex projects.

Benefits

  • Flexible working & work from abroad
  • 25 days holiday + your birthday + flexible bank holidays, & option to buy additional holiday each year
  • 1 Volunteering day each year
  • Enhanced family leave and a workplace nursery scheme
  • A flexible training framework for every stage of your career
  • Irresistible discounts on our products, blooms & subscriptions!
  • Share in our success with a choice to take equity options from day 1
  • ClassPass membership: monthly credits to spend on fitness classes, yoga and much more!

Job title

Operations Excellence Lead

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

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