LVMH Beauty's activities benefit from exceptional dynamism that relies on both the longevity and development of key lines, and on the boldness of new creations.

All are driven by the same values: a quest for excellence, creativity, innovation, and perfect mastery of their image. 

The brands cultivate what makes them unique and are guaranteed to make them stand out in a highly competitive global market. The success of the LVMH Beauty Division depends on finding the right balance between major historic Houses, such as Parfums Christian Dior, Parfums Givenchy, Acqua di Parma, Guerlain, and newer brands with strong potential like Kenzo Parfums, Fresh, and Make Up For Ever. 

LVMH Beauty invites you today to join its North America teams. 

LVMH Beauty is part of the LVMH Group.

As the Distribution Manager, you will play a key role in supporting the rapid expansion of our Direct-to-Consumer business and shaping the future of our distribution planning capabilities.

Recently, our company-owned Retail boutique network and E-Commerce activities have experienced significant growth, becoming strategic drivers for the organization. As part of a rapidly evolving Distribution Planning function, this role will play a key role in shaping processes, driving operational excellence and building scalable solutions to support future business growth.

The Distribution Manager is responsible for ensuring optimal product availability across the North America network while maintaining healthy inventory levels and supporting business performance.

The role oversees end-to-end distribution planning activities across two strategic areas:

• Replenishment and inventory management of e-commerce satellite warehouses.
• Product supply and inventory optimization for company-owned retail stores.

Acting as a strategic business partner across Retail and E-Commerce Teams, Logistics and Planning teams, the Distribution Manager will balance service, inventory and operational efficiency objectives while contributing to the continuous evolution of the organization's distribution planning capabilities.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Distribution & Replenishment Strategy
  • Develop and execute distribution and replenishment strategies that translate business and customer needs into effective supply chain execution, ensuring optimal product availability and service levels across the network.
  • Manage replenishment flows between central and satellite warehouses, while balancing service objectives, inventory productivity and operational constraints.
  • Anticipate workload evolution and seasonal business peaks, ensuring resources, processes and tools remain adapted to changing business needs.
• Inventory Management & Optimization
  • Monitor inventory health and establish inventory strategies across the network and drive actions to optimize stock levels, reduce excess inventory and mitigate obsolescence risks.
  • Lead inventory reviews and recommend corrective actions based on business performance.
  • Drive inventory accuracy across satellite warehouses and retail boutiques through strong partnership, coaching and process discipline with operational teams and external partners.
• Performance Management & Business Partnership
  • Lead the monitoring and review of key distribution and inventory KPIs, ensuring stakeholder alignment around priorities, risks and action plans.
  • Act as a trusted partner to commercial and operational teams, translating operational performance into actionable business recommendations, supporting decision-making through data-driven analysis.
  • Facilitate alignment across Planning, Logistics, Distribution Center Operations, Web Operations, Retail and E-Commerce teams.
• Transformation & Continuous Improvement
  • Support the ongoing development and structuring of the Distribution Planning function.
  • Identify opportunities to simplify, automate and standardize operational activities in order to improve scalability and planning tool optimization and support future business growth.
  • Participate in strategic projects linked to network evolution, business expansion and future brand integration.

SUPERVISION RECEIVED : Reports to Senior Director Forecasting, Planning & Customer Service  

SUPERVISION PROVIDED : Manage and develop one Distribution Planner

We are seeking a highly analytical, business-oriented and collaborative supply chain professional who thrives in fast-growing environments and enjoys building processes, influencing stakeholders and driving continuous improvement.

• Education: Bachelors with Master’s preferred  
• Experience: Minimum 7-10 years of experience in Distribution or Supply Planning, Inventory Optimization, or similar. Experience within the luxury or cosmetics industry is a significant advantage. Experienced supply chain professional ready to lead a growing function. 
• Skills
  • Strong customer and business orientation, with the ability to translate commercial priorities into operational actions.
  • Excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills.
  • Leadership and ability to drive alignment across cross-functional teams.
  • Proven experience operating in evolving environments with a strong continuous improvement mindset. Strong ability to challenge existing processes and drive sustainable change.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities. Advanced Excel skills and data manipulation capabilities.
  • Experience with Power BI, ERP systems and planning solutions preferred.
  • Strong project management and organizational skills

• Work arrangement: Hybrid; office presence based on company policy and business needs
• Travel and schedule: Travel and flexible working hours are required as business needs dictate

This job description is intended to cover the core accountabilities of the position and is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

LVMH Inc. uses the published salary range as a guideline to provide our employees with market competitive pay while allowing for flexibility to recognize and reward various levels of expertise, performance and tenure.

While the published salary range is a good faith reflection of the targeted salary level for the position, LVMH Inc. reserves the right to pay outside of the published salary range of $125,000 - $165,000.

All of your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.