Warehouse Manager

This is an on-site role in Southaven, MS. Only local applicants will be considered.

Direct hire only, no agency recruiters.

Build Something Big From the Ground Up

500,000 square feet. Approximately 150 employees. Three shifts. And we’re just getting started.

SIP Manufacturing is building a major new manufacturing operation in Southaven, Mississippi. It will be our second facility, following our operation in Lake Elsinore, California, with more growth ahead.

This is a chance to get in on the ground floor and help build something from the beginning. We’re not just building a facility. We’re building the team, processes, standards, and culture that will define how this operation runs for years to come.

We’re looking for people who take ownership, move with urgency, work well across teams, and want their contribution to make a visible difference. Whether you’re joining us on the production floor, in a technical role, or supporting the operation, you’ll have the opportunity to help shape what comes next for SIP.

Beverage manufacturing experience is something we value, but it is not required. If you bring strong experience, the right skills, and the mindset to help us build a great operation, we want to hear from you.

Come build it with us.

Summary

Accountable for the safe, accurate, and efficient receipt, storage, control, movement, staging, and shipment of materials and finished goods at the assigned facility. The role protects physical inventory integrity, maintains clear ownership and status segregation, supports production readiness, and ensures outbound orders are loaded accurately and on time.

Detailed Responsibility Framework

The following responsibilities define the position’s primary accountabilities in priority order. They do not eliminate reasonable related duties or the need to follow approved policies and procedures.

1. Lead safe and compliant warehouse operations

Ensure receiving, storage, material movement, staging, loading, equipment operation, housekeeping, and employee practices comply with safety, food-safety, Quality, regulatory, and company requirements.

2. Own physical inventory accuracy and control

Maintain accurate quantities, locations, lot numbers, ownership, status, and traceability for ingredients, packaging, work-in-process, and finished goods.

3. Manage receiving and put-away operations

Ensure inbound materials are received, counted, inspected for visible damage, labeled, recorded, status-controlled, and placed into the correct storage location promptly and accurately.

4. Verify customer-supplied material receipts

Compare physically received customer-owned materials with expected items, quantities, ownership, shipment documentation, and commitments. Report discrepancies promptly to Planning, Procurement, Quality, and the CRM.

5. Maintain inventory ownership and status segregation

Ensure SIP-owned, customer-owned, Quality-held, released, rejected, damaged, obsolete, and otherwise restricted inventory is properly identified and segregated both physically and in Business Central.

6. Support production through accurate material staging

Pick, verify, and stage the correct materials, quantities, lots, and packaging for each approved production order or batch within the required readiness window.

7. Manage material movement and production returns

Control the movement of materials to and from Production, Batching, and Kitting. Ensure unused materials, partial quantities, damaged items, and production returns are accurately identified, reconciled, and recorded.

8. Manage finished-goods receipt and storage

Receive completed production into the warehouse, verify quantities and identification, maintain the appropriate Quality status, and store finished goods in the assigned location.

9. Execute accurate outbound shipping and load-out

Pick, verify, stage, and load finished goods according to approved shipment instructions, customer requirements, pallet configuration, lot controls, and release status.

10. Coordinate inbound and outbound appointments

Manage dock schedules, receiving appointments, customer collections, carrier arrivals, and loading windows in coordination with Procurement, Planning, CRM, and other responsible functions.

11. Coordinate outbound transportation when SIP is responsible

Arrange and manage approved outbound carriers for Turnkey and other SIP-managed shipments. For customer-arranged collections, coordinate pickup readiness and loading without assuming responsibility for carrier selection.

12. Manage cycle counts and physical inventories

Establish and execute cycle-count programs, investigate variances, complete approved adjustments, and support periodic physical inventory counts and reconciliations. Verify physical-count results against warehouse-system records, document root causes, and complete adjustments only through authorized approval controls.

13. Manage warehouse space and layout

Optimize slotting, storage density, material accessibility, traffic flow, building segregation, dock utilization, and space allocation while protecting safety, quality, and traceability.

14. Manage finished-goods aging and customer-held inventory

Monitor storage duration, aging, space consumption, release status, and agreed storage terms. Escalate excess, aged, blocked, or uncollected finished goods before they create capacity or financial exposure.

15. Resolve receiving and shipping discrepancies

Investigate shortages, overages, damage, incorrect items, labeling errors, missing documents, loading discrepancies, and other warehouse-related variances. Coordinate corrective action with the responsible functions.

16. Maintain accurate warehouse system transactions

Ensure receiving, put-away, transfers, picks, staging, consumption support, returns, adjustments, finished-goods receipts, and shipments are recorded accurately and promptly in Business Central.

17. Maintain warehouse equipment and operational readiness

Ensure forklifts, scanners, docks, racking, staging areas, and other warehouse resources are appropriately inspected, maintained, available, and safely used.

18. Lead, organize, and develop the warehouse department

Provide leadership for SIP’s largest operating department, including its managers, supervisors, leads, coordinators, inventory-control personnel, and frontline warehouse employees. Establish a scalable organizational structure, staffing plans, shift coverage, labor deployment, management routines, performance expectations, training, cross-training, and succession plans. Build leadership capability at each level, hold the team accountable for safety, inventory control, productivity, service, and process discipline, and ensure sufficient staffing and management coverage to support production requirements, customer commitments, and company growth across all operating shifts. Coordinate hiring, performance management, and personnel actions with HR and the General Manager within delegated authority. Develop departmental labor, equipment, and operating-budget recommendations and monitor approved spending and resource utilization.

19. Maintain warehouse procedures and work instructions

Develop and enforce SOPs, work instructions, visual controls, location standards, receiving protocols, staging requirements, and shipping-verification procedures. Align receipt, storage, and distribution procedures with the approved supply-chain strategy and material-availability requirements.

20. Partner with Continuous Improvement to improve warehouse performance

Work closely with SIP’s Continuous Improvement team to evaluate warehouse workflows, establish performance baselines, identify root causes, prioritize improvement opportunities, and implement sustainable solutions. Develop and maintain standard work, visual controls, operating metrics, process audits, and follow-up mechanisms that improve inventory accuracy, transaction discipline, staging effectiveness, space utilization, dock performance, labor productivity, damage prevention, order-loading accuracy, and overall warehouse reliability. Ensure improvements are documented, communicated, trained, measured, and sustained across shifts and facilities.

Performance Measures and Indicators

The measures below define the potential indicators used to evaluate this position. Leadership will select and weight the primary measures for each annual performance period based on business priorities. Remaining measures may be used as supporting operating indicators. Specific targets, data sources and review frequency will be established through SIP’s annual business-planning and performance-management process.

Performance Area

How Performance Is Evaluated

Safety and compliance performance

Warehouse safety incidents, near-miss follow-up, equipment-inspection compliance, food-safety adherence, housekeeping, 5S, and corrective-action completion.

Inventory accuracy and traceability

Accuracy of physical inventory compared with Business Central by item, quantity, lot, location, ownership, and Quality status.

Inventory-ownership and status control

Accurate physical and system segregation of SIP-owned, customer-owned, released, held, rejected, damaged, and obsolete inventory.

Receiving accuracy and timeliness

Percentage of inbound deliveries received, counted, documented, labeled, system-posted, and moved to the correct status and location within the established service standard.

Customer-supplied material verification

Accuracy and timeliness of verifying physically received customer materials against expected item, quantity, ownership, condition, and supporting documentation.

Put-away performance

Percentage of received materials placed in the correct designated location within the established timeframe, without creating blocked, unidentified, or inaccessible inventory.

Production-staging accuracy and timeliness

Percentage of production orders staged on time and complete with the correct items, quantities, lots, ownership, and release status.

Material-movement and return accuracy

Accuracy and timeliness of material issues, transfers, partial quantities, production returns, and inventory reconciliations.

Shipping accuracy and on-time dispatch

Percentage of approved shipments loaded accurately and dispatched within the scheduled window with the correct product, quantity, lot, pallet configuration, documentation, and carrier.

Warehouse transaction accuracy and timeliness

Percentage of receiving, put-away, transfer, staging, return, adjustment, finished-goods receipt, and shipment transactions posted correctly and promptly in Business Central.

Damage, loss, and shrink control

Warehouse-related damage, loss, unexplained variance, expired inventory, mishandling, and write-offs compared with established targets.

Cycle-count and physical-inventory performance

Completion of the cycle-count schedule, count accuracy, timely investigation of variances, and closure of approved adjustments and corrective actions.

Finished-goods aging and storage control

Visibility and escalation of aged, blocked, uncollected, or excess finished goods, including adherence to customer storage arrangements and space limitations.

Space and dock utilization

Effective use of warehouse locations, staging areas, docks, racking, and off-site storage while maintaining safe access and material availability.

Receiving and shipping discrepancy resolution

Timely investigation, escalation, and closure of shortages, overages, damage, identification errors, and loading discrepancies.

Labor productivity and workforce readiness

Performance against labor plans, staffing coverage, overtime expectations, training requirements, certification standards, and productivity targets.

Warehouse equipment readiness

Availability and condition of forklifts, scanners, docks, racking, and other essential equipment, including timely completion of inspections and maintenance requests.

Decision Authority and Accountability

• Makes functional or site decisions within approved policy, budget, standards, and delegated authority.
• Stops, contains, or escalates work when safety, quality, compliance, customer commitments, asset integrity, or financial controls are at risk.
• Does not make commitments reserved for another function or approve exceptions outside delegated authority.

Key Working Relationships

Direct manager and assigned team · Cross-functional leaders and employees whose work affects the position’s outcomes · Customers, suppliers, regulators, contractors, or service partners as required by the role

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Operations, Business, or a related field preferred; equivalent relevant education, technical training, and progressively responsible warehouse experience may be considered.
• At least 6 years of progressive warehouse, distribution, inventory-control, or logistics experience, including demonstrated leadership of warehouse operations, preferably within beverage, food, consumer packaged goods, contract manufacturing, or another regulated manufacturing environment.
• Demonstrated experience leading a large, multi-level, multi-shift workforce that includes managers, supervisors, leads, coordinators, inventory-control personnel, and frontline warehouse employees.
• Proven ability to establish an effective warehouse organizational structure, determine staffing requirements, deploy labor across shifts, manage workload fluctuations, and maintain reliable operational coverage.
• Strong knowledge of receiving, put-away, storage, slotting, replenishment, picking, production staging, material returns, finished-goods handling, shipping, cycle counting, and physical inventory processes.
• Demonstrated success maintaining inventory accuracy, lot traceability, location control, transaction discipline, and physical and system segregation of company-owned and customer-owned materials.
• Experience managing high-volume warehouse operations that support multiple production lines, customer programs, facilities, and inbound and outbound transportation requirements.
• Working knowledge of ERP, warehouse-management, inventory-control, appointment-scheduling, and related business systems; experience with Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central or comparable platforms is preferred.
• Strong understanding of food-safety, quality, sanitation, traceability, regulatory, customer, and employee-safety requirements applicable to warehouse and distribution operations.
• Proven ability to establish and manage warehouse KPIs covering inventory accuracy, staging readiness, receiving turnaround, order accuracy, dock performance, labor productivity, damage, safety, space utilization, and on-time shipment.
• Demonstrated ability to develop managers and supervisors, establish performance expectations, address performance concerns, improve employee capability, and build succession and cross-training plans.
• Experience partnering with Continuous Improvement or operational-excellence teams to analyze workflows, identify root causes, implement standard work, and sustain measurable improvements.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making capability, including the ability to prioritize competing production, inventory, staffing, customer, and transportation requirements.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functionally with Supply Chain, Production, Quality, Customer Relationship Management, Maintenance, Finance, Safety, IT, and Continuous Improvement.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, sound judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to provide clear performance, risk, staffing, and operational updates to site and executive leadership.