Intra-Logistics Operations Manager (Remote with Travel)

Niagara Bottling•Diamond Bar, CA

1d•Remote

About The Position

The Intra-logistics Operations Manager is responsible for managing, scheduling and prioritizing Yard Services, Local Internal Transportation, Spring Water Hauling, and Third Party Logistic (3PL) suppliers. The Manager, Intra-Logistics Operations focuses on efficiently utilizing supplier resources to maximize customer service while reducing waste and cutting costs. This role is also responsible for leading cross-functional teams to ensure the successful launch of new Third Party Warehousing and Intra-Logistics suppliers as well as analyzing production plans to effectively schedule and prioritize supplier resources required to meet customer requirements and production plans. This position requires up to 50% travel.

Requirements

6 Years – Experience in Field or similar manufacturing environment
6 Years – Experience in Position
6 Years – Experience managing people/projects experience may include a combination of work experience and education
Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, Logistics, Supply Chain, Engineering or other related field
Strategic Thinking: able to grasp the big picture and think long-term.
Recognition of Opportunity: recognizes new opportunities and acts to take advantage of them.
Quantitative Analysis: skillful in using quantitative analysis to understand business issues.
Assertiveness: able to defend a point of view and to confront others appropriately when necessary; unafraid to take controversial positions and challenge the conventional wisdom or status quo.
Comfort with Risk: takes risks when appropriate, isn’t afraid to innovate and experiment.
Creative Thinking: able to think creatively, generating new ideas and approaches to situations.
Organizational Priority: able to make decisions that are in the best interest of the organization, even though they cause individual people distress.
Negotiation Skill: skilled in negotiating tactics, effective in utilizing analysis and creative solutions to extract the greatest value for the company.
Merit-orientation: judges ideas and people on merit alone, without bias or favoritism.
Influence: can influence and persuade other people, even without direct authority.
Political Skill: knows how to get things done within the political framework of an organization.
Oral Communication: a skillful public speaker, good at presenting ideas and plans in a persuasive manner.
Written Communication: a good writer; expresses ideas and positions clearly.
Cross Cultural: Able to interact effectively with people of different cultures and backgrounds.
Knowledge of and experience with Microsoft Excel and Power Point
Manages a safe working environment, accurately documents safety related training, and effectively communicates safety incidents
Provides strategic input and oversight to departmental projects
Makes data driven decisions and develops sustainable solutions
Skilled in reducing costs and managing timelines while prioritizing long run impact over short term wins
Makes decisions by putting overall company success first before department/individual success
Leads/facilitates discussions to get positive outcomes for the customer
Makes strategic decisions which prioritize the needs of the customer over departmental/individual goals
Continuously evaluates existing programs and processes, and develops new initiatives to increase efficiency and reduce waste
Creates, monitors, and responds to departmental performance metrics to drive continuous improvement
Communicates a clear vision, organizes resources effectively, and adjusts the strategy as needed when managing change
Demonstrates ability to think analytically and synthesize complex information
Effectively delegates technical tasks to subordinates
Works effectively with departments, vendors, and customers to achieve organizational success
Identifies opportunities for collaboration in strategic ways
Makes hiring decisions primarily based on culture fit and attitude, and secondarily based on technical expertise
Engages in long term talent planning
Provides opportunities for the development of all direct reports
Understands, identifies, and addresses conflict within own team and between teams

Nice To Haves

10+ Years– Experience in Field or similar manufacturing environment
10+ Years – Experience working in Position
10+ Years – Experience managing people/projects experience may include a combination of work experience and education
APICS CPIM,CLTD certification/license

Responsibilities

Collaborate closely with planning department to ensure that sufficient Yard Services, Local Internal Transportation, Spring Water Hauling and 3PL resources are available to meet production plans.
Lead cross-functional team made up of plant managers, planners and customer service to plan and execute the successful on-boarding of new 3PL warehouses.
Oversee 3PL physical plant construction and train 3PL personnel in proper inventory management, receiving and loading process, and develop tools to communicate capacity and inventory status to planners and customer service.
Ensure that 3PL locations are properly staffed to perform value add postponement or break bulk services; schedule and prioritize these resources to respond to customer requirements.
Work closely with local plant management to ensure that there is sufficient capacity and resources for Yard Services, Local Internal Transport, Spring Water Hauling and 3PL Suppliers.
Communicate changes in capacity requirements in an efficient and professional way to suppliers ensuring that resources are optimized, minimizing costs while ensuring excellent customer service.
Conduct root cause analysis for service failures and lead cross-functional teams to develop sustainable solutions to correct failures.
Collaborate with customer service to ensure that customer requirements are communicated to 3PL personnel; collaborate with 3PL to ensure customer requirements are met.
Seek, support, and implement internal and external process improvement opportunities.
Manage supplier performance by developing KPIs that measure resource capacity and efficiency while driving continuous improvement.

Benefits

Competitive compensation and benefits packages
Regular full-time team members are offered a comprehensive benefits package
Paid Time Off for holidays, sick time, and vacation time
Paid parental and caregiver leaves
Medical, including virtual care options
Dental
Vision
401(k) with company match
Health Savings Account with company match
Flexible Spending Accounts
Expanded mental wellbeing benefits including free counseling sessions for all team members and household family members
Family Building Benefits including enhanced fertility benefits for IVF and fertility preservation plus adoption, surrogacy, and Doula reimbursements
Income protection including Life and AD&D, short and long-term disability, critical illness and an accident plan
Special discount programs including pet plans, pre-paid legal services, identity theft, car rental, airport parking, etc.
Tuition reimbursement, college savings plan and scholarship opportunities