OpEx Delivery Lead
About The Position
This role is pivotal in supporting regional DSD operations by driving operational excellence, ensuring regulatory compliance, and enhancing the safety and productivity of our delivery fleet. The position involves strategic planning, hands-on field engagement, extensive data analysis, and cross-functional collaboration to optimize delivery processes and foster a culture of continuous improvement and safety. This role also will focus on ensuring the effective implementation of operational best practices, maintaining robust compliance standards, and continuously improving productivity and safety within our regional DSD delivery network. You will provide strategic oversight, hands-on support, and collaborate extensively with cross-functional partners to elevate regional operational performance.
Requirements
- Experience implementing CI processes (e.g. TPM for manufacturing, Lean Six Sigma in the consumer goods industry)
- Strong facilitation and communication skills
- Experience in change management processes
- Logical thinking and capacity to influence
- Results oriented and prepared to deal with ambiguity
- Extensive experience (10+ years preferred) in logistics operations, fleet management, transportation safety, or a similar role within a DSD or comparable distribution network.
- Proven track record of improving operational KPIs and ensuring compliance.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Logistics, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Transportation, or a related field required.
Nice To Haves
- Relevant certifications in transportation safety, fleet management, or continuous improvement (e.g., Lean Six Sigma) are a plus.
- A strategic mindset, exceptional leadership capabilities, adaptability to complex operational challenges, a commitment to safety, and a proactive approach to driving innovation and efficiency in delivery logistics.
Responsibilities
- Provide training on CI tools and techniques to help drive teams through CI cycles.
- Coach employees to help them achieve their targets.
- Identify process improvement needs with department leads, facilitate sessions and support execution of newly established improvements.
- Once improvements are done, validate outcome benefits and support creation of new standards and qualification of members into new working processes.
- Benchmark externally, ensuring where relevant that best practice and new tools are deployed in collaboration with internal partners.
- Drive operational excellence, ensure regulatory compliance, and enhance the safety and productivity of our delivery fleet.
- Conduct strategic planning, hands-on field engagement, extensive data analysis, and cross-functional collaboration to optimize delivery processes.
- Foster a culture of continuous improvement and safety.
- Ensure the effective implementation of operational best practices.
- Maintain robust compliance standards.
- Continuously improve productivity and safety within our regional DSD delivery network.
- Provide strategic oversight and hands-on support.
- Collaborate extensively with cross-functional partners to elevate regional operational performance.
Benefits
- health insurance
- wellness and family support programs
- life and disability insurance
- retirement savings plans
- paid leave programs
- education related programs
- paid holidays and vacation time
- highly competitive bonus program with possibility for overachievement based on performance and company results
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
Associate degree
