Head of Operations **URGENT**

Essential Responsibilities Manage and drive overall performance of direct reports through leadership and development.

Hire and develop the management team and first level supervisors to create a leadership succession plan in the Facility.

Implement and maintain policy and procedures relating to inventory control, including ensuring the accuracy of warehouse inventory and analyzing poor products.

Ensure that division is in compliance with government policies.

Audit receiving and stocking procedures to ensure that policies are followed.

Responsible for employee development through training on policy and procedures.

Recognize signs of operational problems and provide detailed action steps required of DC management to correct them.

Monitor to ensure that the cycle count and count back program is executed as designed in partnership with the Finance team.

Ensure product rotation standards are maintained/FIFO management/inventory storage.

Elevate variances to established procedures to warehouse management immediately.

Validate the accuracy of product transferred from facility to facility.

Handle requests from procurement, other facilities and corporate.

Provide ongoing training to Inventory Control staff.

Collaborate with warehouse managers to provide performance evaluations that are timely and constructive.

Physical Requirements Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer. Clear expression of ideas in writing and in good grammatical form. Leadership — Possesses a genuine intent to foster the learning and development of work group members while promoting the creation of a high-performance team. Lean & Six Sigma — Drive continuous process improvement utilizing LEAN and Six Sigma methodologies in the areas of cost, service, accuracy and productivity while driving employee engagement.

Partner cross-functionally to ensure inventory is available and product is shipped to customer specifications. Supports Facility initiatives aimed at improving processes, driving consistencies and ensuring best practices are shared.

Technical — Demonstrates an understanding of the order fulfillment process, facility policies and procedures, and intermediate PC skills: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and MS Outlook. Demonstrates ability to learn and understand warehouse systems such as SAP, WCS, Red Prairie, TranMan, Laser Print, etc.

Coaching/Counseling — Develop a positive working environment promoting open and honest communications and trust among work group members. Partners with union leadership to work through employee issues.

Problem Solving — Ability to understand a situation by breaking it apart into smaller pieces, organizing parts of problem in a systematic way, making systematic comparisons, setting priorities on a rational basis, identifying time sequences, and causal relationships to generate solutions. Thorough understanding of inventory policies and procedures.

Education Minimum 5 years of distribution experience to include 3+ years in a leadership role within a medium to large distribution center with primary accountability for an entire shift or segment. Bachelor’s degree with emphasis on Industrial Engineering, Logistics, Distribution or other related areas of expertise preferred. 13+ years combined college education and work experience may be substituted for a degree.

Equal Opportunity Employer EOE M/F/Disability/Vets

Full time.