Head of Operations **URGENT**

Manager, Operations

Manages and drives overall performance of direct reports through leadership and development.

• Hire & develop the management team and first level supervisors to create a leadership succession plan in the Facility.
• Implements and maintains policy and procedures relating to inventory control, to include ensuring the accuracy of warehouse inventory and analyzing poor products.
• Ensures that division is in compliance with government policies.
• Audits receiving and stocking procedures to ensure that policies are followed.
• Responsible for employee development through training on policy & procedures.
• wrong product in slots, high shrink, receiving errors, lift errors) and provides detailed action steps required of DC management to correct them.
• Monitors to ensure that the cycle count and count back program is executed as designed in partnership with the Finance team.
• Ensures product rotation standards are maintained/FIFO Management/Inventory Storage
• Elevates variances to established procedures to warehouse management immediately.
• Validates the accuracy of product transferred from facility to facility. Handles requests from procurement, other facilities and corporate.
• Provides ongoing training to Inventory Control staff.
• Collaborates with warehouse managers to provide performance evaluations that are timely and constructive.

Prolonged periods sitting at a desk and working on a computer.

Clear expression of ideas in writing and in good grammatical form. Possesses a genuine intent to foster the learning and development of work group members while promoting the creation of a high-performance team. Understands one’s influence on the work group and provides direction to work group to ensure requirements are consistently met for the work area/facility. Motivates work group towards goal achievement by ensuring that work group understands how their work fits into the entire production flow of the facility and by providing continuous feedback.

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.

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

Coaching/Counseling: Develops a positive working environment promoting open and honest communications and trust among work group members. Ensures production standards and policies are adhered to and counsels work group members accordingly should deviations exist. Partners with union leadership to work through employee issues.

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

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.

EOE M/F/Disability/Vets

FULL TIME/PART TIMEFull time