Warehouse Operations Manager

Warehouse Operations Manager

At Suddath, you can be part of something special and inclusive! Join a team that has a 100+ year reputation for excellence as an innovative, growing and financially stable company that is dedicated to promoting a culture that thrives on inclusion and diversity. From numerous awards to being recognized as one of the best places to work, Suddath offers a caring, family environment while providing relocation and logistics services to people and companies all around the world.

The Operations Manager oversees onsite logistics and operations, ensuring exceptional service, efficient warehouse and transportation workflow, strong team performance, and alignment with customer expectations and company goals. This role interacts heavily with the customer while driving operational excellence, KPI achievement, and financial performance.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Responsible for managing all functions relating to freight movement into and out of the warehouse(s), maintaining prescribed service levels while keeping cost controls in place.
• Training and supervising employees to ensure meeting departmental and company objectives. Interfaces with Transportation Operations to resolve any problems associated with scheduling and dispatching.
• Maintains and develops appropriate warehousing programs that meet cost and service objectives and production and customer needs. Recommends programs that improve the operations function.
• Maintains and directs the implementation of procedures to ensure that freight claims are processed and collected in a timely manner.
• Forecast, identifies and analyzes costs, equipment availability and service levels, making recommendations and instituting corrective action.
• Establishes and measure KPIs to drive performance for on-time in-full delivery performance, shipping costs for all forms of transit (land, air, sea), warehouse inventory management, warehousing productivity and quality, and workforce planning requirements.
• Investigates cause analysis issues for problem reconciliation and lead corrective action for complaints related to transportation, logistics handling and warehousing of finished product.
• Maintains and develops fiscal budgets and ensures effective management within budgetary guidelines. Provides senior management with periodic reports as designated.
• Establish and maintain relationship with customers, serving as a resolve to escalations and conflict, and proactively working to identify service improvement opportunities.
• Ensures staff cohesively support strategic customer care service objectives, coach front-line management to enhance staff and team skills and competencies, and establish team performance objectives.
• Ensures the operations is in compliance with Federal and State regulations.

Qualifications:

• A broad range of management skills is required with particular emphasis on leadership, problem solving, motivation, communication, innovation and planning. Must value diversity and exhibit a leadership style that empowers, coaches, mentors, and fosters a cohesive team environment.
• Will work independently and be comfortable working with complex and cross functional teams at all levels, both internal and external. Must be able to interface and communicate effectively within the organization and with partners across the supply chain. Strong verbal and written communication skills with a demonstrated experience engaging and influencing senior executives.
• Must be successful in managing effective deployment of resources, systems and personnel to enable achievement of organizational objectives. Extensive sourcing, negotiation and human relations skills are required. Experience building, executing and managing vendor strategy and operations through KPIs, audit mechanisms and flawless execution.
• Demonstrated ability to work cross-functionally with engineering, sales, operations and other stakeholders to deliver and manage products/services. Demonstrated ability to think strategically with the ability to build and manage equally compelling operations. Proven ability to successfully thrive in an ambiguous environment.
• Strong analytical and quantitative skills; ability to use hard data and metrics to back up assumptions, recommendations, and drive actions.
• Strong working knowledge of MS Office Suite, advance level Excel. A working knowledge of warehouse and transportation management systems is a must.
• Strong team player, is an owner, and ultimately focused on delivering results with high standards.

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited university in logistics, supply chain, transportation or a business-related field.
• Minimum 8+ years of direct experience in a similar industry
• Working knowledge of regulations relating to transportation and warehouse operations, coupled with experience with a variety of logistics sourcing strategies.
• Demonstrated skills associated with building vendor relationships, hands-on experience with the development and deployment of departmental metrics, and experience monitoring the quality, quantity, cost and efficiency of logistics networks.
• Financial acumen and budgeting experience.
• Experience in Lean, Six Sigma and other continuous improvement initiatives, including ISO applications.
• Knowledge of industry standard applications for transportation and warehousing (WMS).

Working Conditions:

• Warehouse working environment
• Noise level in the work environment is usually moderate

Physical Activity Level:

• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.
• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel and talk or hear.
• The employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms.

The Suddath Companies is a multifaceted group of companies that specialize in worldwide corporate employee relocations, household moving, warehouse and logistics management and specialized transportation services.

The Suddath Companies provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.