The posting
Job Title: Vice President, Manufacturing Operations – East Region Work Arrangement: Remote, with approximately 70% travel within the East Region Reports To: Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Direct Reports: 12
Company Overview:
FXI is a leading provider of comfort solutions to the Bedding, Furniture and Transportation markets. We have made it our mission to provide tailored solutions that delight our customers and consumers. We are an industry leader in the rapidly growing Mattress in a Box segment of the bedding market. We have created a “molecules to doorstep” business model that leverages our leading innovation, scale, and footprint to deliver our own brands as well as other leading brands to the market and to consumers doorsteps. With our corporate headquarters, high-tech research and development facility, and multiple manufacturing locations in North America, FXI has built a culture of innovation and achievement that is recognized by customers, suppliers and peers. We provide one of the broadest sets of comfort solutions to the broadest set of industry players, through the broadest manufacturing platform in the industry. You will find FXI’s comfort technologies inside countless applications you encounter every day. Everywhere comfort is needed, FXI’s innovations lead the way! We are always looking for best-in-class talent to join our innovative, fun, and value-driven culture. What are you waiting for?
Job Overview:
The Manufacturing Vice President, East Region owns commercial product manufacturing, shipping and receiving, and facilities across the East Region plant network. The role plans, directs, and monitors all manufacturing operations and partners across functions to set priorities and deliver results in a fast‑moving environment. The selected leader will be a strategic operator who continuously seeks business growth and opportunity, working with peers across all functions to set priorities, drive alignment, and deliver results in an ambiguous and rapidly changing environment.
This position will have oversight of the East Region plants to include Fort Wayne, IN; Archbald, PA; Spencerville, OH; Portage, WI; Dubuque, IA; Tupelo, MS; Chattanooga, TN; High Point, NC; Miami, FL.
Responsibilities:
Manufacturing and Continuous Improvement. Lead manufacturing at all regional sites with safety first, driving toward world‑class EHS performance and full regulatory compliance. Drive operational excellence with shop‑floor KPIs and short interval controls, advance a Lean culture using SQDC metrics, and apply Six Sigma, SPC, and Lean tools to reduce lead times, cost, and variation. Apply root cause analysis and effective corrective action to drive down internal and external cost of quality, sustain ISO and customer quality requirements, and ensure products meet or exceed customer specifications. Develop strategic plans that optimize footprint and efficiency, and scale best practices across the company.
- Financial Carry full P&L, budget, and capital ownership for regional multi‑plant operations. Manage material, labor, overhead, and freight to target. Continuously review processes, systems, and agreements to remove waste and protect supply, and pursue initiatives that fill the plants to capacity.
- Supply Chain. Own shipping, receiving, and inventory control across the region, ensuring incoming material quality and on‑time, in‑spec delivery to customers. Provide responsive order management and demand forecasting with Business Units, and apply value engineering to support cost, quality, and reliability goals.
- Planning Set inventory policy and capacity plans aligned to long‑term forecasts and strategy, run MRP‑driven production scheduling, protect manufacturing IP, and maintain contingency plans for market, EHS, quality, or operational disruptions while sustaining regulatory and ISO compliance.
- Leadership Lead with safety first and hold yourself and your teams accountable for EHS and quality results. Build and develop a high‑performing team of plant managers with shared accountability for company, site, and department goals, and embed safety and quality awareness throughout the regional organization. Serve on the Operations Leadership Team, drive horizontal alignment across regions and functions, share best practices, develop bench strength, and recognize results.
Key Attributes:
- Entrepreneurial, results‑driven, and comfortable challenging the status quo while respecting others.
- Strong communicator who sets clear goals, holds teams accountable, and influences peers, subordinates, and senior leaders.
- Hands‑on, decisive, and adaptable, with the emotional maturity to lead through ambiguity and change.
- Collaborative team player who promotes employee engagement and represents Operations effectively with customers, vendors, and partners.
- Forward‑looking, with the scale to grow into broader Operations leadership over time.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Operations, Engineering, or related field.
- 15+ years of manufacturing management experience, including plant management and responsibility for a multi-plant network.
- Demonstrated success implementing Lean Manufacturing; working knowledge of Six Sigma and continuous improvement tools.
- Strong command of financial statements and standard manufacturing metrics, with prior P&L responsibility.
- Strong analytical skills and the ability to understand technical manufacturing processes across multiple plants.
- Track record of consistently delivering business results across diverse teams and stakeholders.
- Ability to travel up to 70%, with regular cadence at each East Region site.
Our Commitment to a Diverse Workforce:
FXI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. FXI does not discriminate in employment matters on the basis of race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or based on any individual’s membership in any group or class protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. We support workplace diversity. We strongly believe that diversity contributes to a broader collective perspective that will consistently lead to a better company and better products. We are working hard to increase the diversity of our team wherever we can.
We are interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. However, we are not able to sponsor visas.
FXI is not accepting unsolicited assistance from search firms for this employment opportunity. Please, no phone calls or emails. All resumes submitted by search firms to any employee at FXI via-email, the Internet or in any form and/or method without a valid written search agreement in place for this position will be deemed the sole property of FXI. No fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by FXI as a result of the referral or through other means.
