Supply Chain Manager

Karoun Dairies LLC • Los Angeles, CA

17d

About The Position

Ready for more than just a job? Build a career with purpose. At Lactalis in the USA, we believe in promoting from within and giving our employees meaningful opportunities to learn, grow, and thrive. Whether you’re just starting out or bringing years of experience, we’ll provide the tools and support you need to succeed.

As the world leader in dairy, Lactalis is a family-owned company with over 85,000 pragmatic and ambitious professionals across the globe. Each day, we’re proud to produce award-winning dairy products that bring people together.
In the US, we proudly offer an unrivaled house of beloved brands, including Galbani® Italian cheeses and ricotta, Président® specialty cheeses and butters, Kraft® natural and grated cheeses, Breakstone’s® cottage cheese, Cracker Barrel®, Black Diamond® cheddar, and Parmalat® milk. Our yogurt portfolio includes siggi’s®, Stonyfield Organic®, Brown Cow™, Oui®, Yoplait®, Go-Gurt®, :ratio®, Green Mountain Creamery®, and Mountain High®, along with a growing family of ethnic favorites like Karoun®, Gopi®, and Arz®.

At Lactalis, we live by our core values—Ambition, Engagement, and Simplicity. We foster a workplace where innovation thrives, diverse perspectives are celebrated, and everyone’s unique background and ideas are valued.
Even if you don’t meet every qualification, we encourage you to apply. We want to hear about your PASSION, your STORY, and how your EXPERTISE can help us shape the future of dairy.

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Karoun Dairies, part of the Lactalis family of companies, is currently hiring a Digital Marketing Manager based in San Fernando, California.

About the Role Supply Chain Manager:

Reporting to the CEO, the is responsible to Manage, coordinate, plan, and organize strategic sourcing, purchasing, production and inventory planning, receiving, warehousing, control, and distribution of materials to satisfy distribution needs/service relations as required to accomplish these goals.
The Manager of Supply Chain will be tasked with the identification, development, and completion of significant efficiency/optimization projects. This person will be responsible to work cross functionally within SC as well as WH, and cross functional departments and divisions across the entire business using lean principles, total cost analysis, strong project management skills, and a highly developed to identify major cost saving initiatives, ensure cross functional collaboration, timely project completion and the realization of identified savings. Will be responsible to develop the targets / budget related to Supply Chain, working with others to develop baseline data, savings calculations, monthly tracking and reporting tools as well as the upkeep of all project charters to ensure accurate and timely reporting to CEO and management.
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

Requirements

• Business degree or other relevant.
• 5-7 years of progressive experience in a supply chain discipline, preferably in multiple disciplines (logistics/planning/transportation/customer fulfillment)
• 4 yrs minimum warehouse and operations management experience
• Project management experience
• SAP/ERP
• Strong computer skills in Word, Excel, and Warehouse Management related platforms/systems
• SAP
• Ability to lead multiple teams/projects is a must.
• 6 Sigma
• Ability to apply Lean supply chain concepts is the key to success in this role.
• Ability to lead multiple teams/projects is a must.
• Demonstrated excellent communication, organizational, time management, people management, and persuasion skill set.
• Must be self-motivated, organized and be able to simplify complex issues for presentation to a cross functional audience
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making capabilities with the ability to navigate complex challenges.
• Interpersonal Skills: Collaborative and able to build strong relationships with internal teams and external partners.
• Contributes to a team culture that promotes continuous improvement, ownership, professional growth, and inclusion

Responsibilities

• Oversees and manages 3 warehouse operations and logistics. (i.e., San Fernando, Turlock, and Chicago locations)
• Manages SAP Processes and Data Controls- Run and evaluate metrics in SAP regularly.
• Work with Warehouse Manager and team on reducing shipment/delivery errors and putting necessary actions in place. Work with CSR and to minimize returns or negative customer concerns.
• Improve warehouse efficiency and provide ideas to reduce operations cost
• Ensure an effective and efficient scheduling process to maximize facility resources, inventory, and On-Time Delivery results
• Maintains SOPs with current and proposed new processes
• Completes necessary Activity/KPI Reports for Management
• Coordinates with other departments to facilitate efficient warehouse operations. (i.e. warehouse urgent requests)
• Understand, develop, and implement strategic objectives, capacity status, constraints, needs for growth in support of corporate goals and providing organizational recommendations as required to accomplish these goals
• Develop and maintain company/supplier partnerships based on mutual trust in order to enhance long term and cost-effective availability of materials.
• Establish and implement new, or revisions to, existing procedures to increase and achieve materials management efficiency, asset control, and asset utilization
• Eliminate waste of materials, utilities, staffing, and other company resources wherever possible
• Manage negotiations regarding outside suppliers to ensure adequate product availability, fair pricing, and up-to-date marketplace information
• Continually assess, develop, and staff the subordinate groups with the talent necessary to operate at a high level of accuracy and productivity
• Supervise regular cycle counts and periodic physical inventories to update and compare perpetual computer records
• Drive complex and cross functional supply chain efficiency/optimization projects that result in significant savings to Karoun.
• Develop a strong understanding of company, products, processes, and strategies. Understand the business production and distribution processes of perishable products and develop optimization strategies, to work within the given constraints or opportunities to maximize the benefits for the company.
• Help for developing annual budget related to supply chain and responsible for savings opportunities, tracking and reporting of all projects against annual budget targets.
• Build cross-functional consensus for new projects/opportunities/initiatives. This involves buy in from commercial, manufacturing along with supporting departments like QA, finance, etc.
• Ensure that the company cash flow target is achieved through the achievement of relevant Supply Chain efficiency projects.
• Ensure Service, Safety, and Turn over Levels are on target.
• Track and review warehouse related data, reports and metrics on regular basis and implement process based on the findings to improve process and efficiency.
• Analyze any and all planning related activities on the cost incurred to the company as a whole and not just Supply Chain team and decide on the appropriate course of action.
• Understand the annual budget, 3-yr Plan and work with a long term goal in mind.
• Support the development of supply chain team through project leadership and exposure to sound supply chain principles, including lean.
• Continuously seek ways to improve the existing processes and methods.
• Present data, findings, proposals, etc. to Executive Leadership Team when requested by CEO.
• Travel and / or extended or off work hours may be required
• This description reflects management’s assignment of essential functions, it does not proscribe or restrict the tasks that may be assigned.
• Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these Essential Duties and Responsibilities.

Benefits

• At Lactalis, we offer a comprehensive Total Rewards Program with a variety of affordable benefits and coverage options. We support insurance costs significantly, contribute generously to retirement plans, and offer Paid Time Off from day one.
• We are committed to your professional growth, providing training and development opportunities, including Education Reimbursement. Join us and grow your career.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level