As a Warehouse Supervisor (Manager, Supply Chain-Warehousing, Distribution & Logistics), you’ll lead a team of hourly associates and salaried consultants in the execution of all shipping and receipts of our beverage throughout North America. This role supports 24/7 operations from a warehousing perspective to ensure customer orders are fulfilled, materials are received on time, and warehouse storage is managed efficiently to ensure smooth operations.
What You’ll Do for Us
- Review customer orders at the warehouse, streamline the process, gain efficiency, and provide feedback to the parties responsible for placing the orders, transportation, QA, and other internal/external stakeholders.
- Ensure on-time shipping of customer orders to prevent stockouts.
- Direct, lead, and distribute work to associates to drive business results and set accountability.
- Regularly conduct inspections and internal audits of facility areas to ensure the plant is always audit-ready.
- Manage plant or warehouse metrics (e.g., breakage, yields, product obsolescence) using historical data, current information, and metrics targets to minimize costs.
- Ensure compliance with KPIs - performance metrics relating to quality, service, efficiency, cost, and delivery to specifications to company’s requirements.
- Learn and improve warehousing procedures/processes within the Logistics Program to improve operational effectiveness and compliance.
- Lead process optimization and operational excellence projects, eliminate barriers, and conduct root cause analysis.
- Create department schedules, vacation tracker, execute time & attendance records, monitoring, and manage overtime.
- Review associates’ performance, ensure work expectations are communicated, and provide coaching, support, and training required to meet job expectations.
- Execute and improve current Inventory Control activities by ensuring that all related tasks are performed to meet company and external requirements.
- Ensure compliance with QA and shipping procedures in handling of packaging materials, ingredients, finished product, shipments, paperwork, and general freight movement into and out of the warehouse.
- Lead the execution of inventory control procedures and routines (e.g., cycle counting) for ingredients, packaging, damages, and finished products.
- Ensure compliance with the Company and Plant policies concerning traffic procedures, security, KPI reports, and applicable regulatory and industry regulations concerning freight shipments.
- Ensure GMP checks are completed, drive improvement in existing programs, and set accountability for GMP routines and other duties as required by the department managers.
- Ensure safe operations of the warehouse, compliance with warehouse safety programs, and ensure safety KPIs are reviewed with the team to maintain safe working conditions.
- Support 24/7 operations for plants to have warehouse space available to continue production activities and optimize utilization of outside storage.
- Ensure compliance with the company’s Environment, Health and Safety policies by supporting initiatives to drive site performance on EHS KPIs.
- Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications & Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
- 5+ years of warehouse management experience, preferably with food plants.
- Highly desirable to have manufacturing experience, preferably in food plants.
- Experience managing workforce, schedules, budgets, and time and attendance records.
- Strong working knowledge of SAP or similar ERP systems.
- Strong knowledge of inventory management routines, processes, and industry practices.
- Ability to operate a manual/powered pallet jack or lift product.
- Forklift experience is an added advantage.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to read, write, speak, and comprehend English.
- Ability to work weekends, holidays, and different shifts if needed to support business needs.
- Ability to understand, record, and communicate material and product information.
- Strong experience with managing Goods Manufacturing Practices (GMP), safety, attendance, and rules of conduct guidelines.
- Adhere to all company policies and processes.
What We Can Do For You
- Purpose Driven: Purpose driven approach that empowers our people to protect the environment and communities we serve while delivering safe & quality products.
- Global Connections: Allows you to develop, enhance, and maintain global connections that allow us to move faster and learn from others.
- Community of Belonging: We’re an organization that believes our ability to continually grow and build the right atmosphere where people feel safe and empowered lets you bring your best self to work.
Additional Skills: SAP/ERP inventory management experience, Microsoft Office, leading cross-functional teams, Logistics Operations, Communication, Problem Solving, Mathematics, detail-oriented, project management, warehouse management, Logistics Management, People Management.
Skills: Warehouse Management; Microsoft Office; Group Problem Solving; Mathematics; Communication; People Management; Cross-Functional Leadership; SAP Inventory Management; ERP Management; Logistics Management; Logistics Operations; Detail-Oriented; Waterfall Model.