Director of Inbound Logistics - Domestic

Meijer•Grand Rapids, MI

18h•Hybrid

About The Position

As a family company, Meijer serves people and communities, offering career and community opportunities centered around leadership, personal growth, and development. This Director of Inbound Logistics position is responsible for directing multi-channel corporate logistics services across all businesses in a cost-effective and service-sensitive manner. This includes transportation services for over 200+ stores, adhering to all associated Drug Enforcement Activity regulatory requirements. The role follows a hybrid schedule, with Monday-Wednesday in the office and Thursday-Friday remote. Meijer, a multi-billion dollar retailer with over 70,000 employees across six states, has been in operation for more than 90 years. The company is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace and treating all persons with dignity and respect, without discrimination based on protected classifications.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree of Supply Chain Logistics or associated discipline required.
8-10 years of progressive growth and experience in supply chain in associated fields.
Proven ability to work across the corporation with all levels, including Sr. Leadership, to drive strategies and meet goals and objectives.
Strong and proven capabilities at building a team and growing future leaders.
Verbal and communication skills to clearly articulate, in person or in writing, across multiple disciplines.
Strong knowledge, experience and successful track record managing global business practices.

Responsibilities

Execute cost control strategies across the corporation, including retail margins and operational P&L’s.
Execute transportation mode strategies that includes small parcel, less than truckload, intermodal, rail, consolidation and deconsolidation.
Lead team responsible for sourcing and negotiating domestic service providers across all modes: Small parcel, LTL, Truckload, intermodal.
Actively engage with Digital Team on logistics support for home delivery.
Stay current with team focus on regulatory requirements relative to CPSC corrective action program and commitments working cross functionally with Legal and Internal Audit.
Lead team in alignment with corporate P&L goals and in stock requirements working cross functionally to meet goals.
Engage with Supply Chain on projects requiring domestic logistics analysis.
Engage in actively hiring, training and developing present and future leaders.
Establish and deploy policies, processes, organizational structure and programs to support supply chain vision.
Manage all mode service provider compliance to meet corporate in-stock strategy from approximately 5600 vendors across the globe inbound to 26 distribution facilities.
Responsible for state-of-the-art knowledge to support systems and software applications to drive logistics cost efficiencies and carrier freight bill payment.
Collaborate with other departments in the company to accomplish strategic objectives including Merchandising, Planning, Distribution, Finance and Accounting, Legal, Quality Assurance, Product Development and Corporate Asset Protection.