Distribution Senior Operations Manager

Key Responsibilities

• People Management: Ensure appropriate leadership skills are present at every level through creating an inclusive and supportive work environment in which employees are coached, trained, and provided with career opportunities through development.
• Manage Distribution Center operations and be accountable for achieving safety, cost, productivity, SLA, and quality targets.
• Collaborate with peer Senior Managers to ensure building flow is planned and maintained.
• Coordinate order processing to achieve productivity, cost, and throughput targets.
• Participate in staff planning to support the forecast, ensuring the facility is prepared to support the business as necessary.
• Build a strong performing team and develop direct report executives for future growth.
• Maintain all OSHA safety standards including all reporting of accidents, injuries, damages, and potential threats to safety.

Continuous Improvement (CI), Performance Ecosystem (PeS), and Labor Management (LM)

• Partner with the CI teams to continue developing a culture of continuous improvement and cost saving initiatives.
• Lead the Operations Team to set PeS on the shop floor.
• Owning the standardization, quality, and maintain the relevancy of SOPs, Shop Floor Management, Leader Standard Work, Process Confirmation (Gemba), and Lean Methods.
• Drive change management with shop floor leaders for respective CI initiatives to ensure successful go-live, adoption, and sustained lasting benefits.
• Utilize LM to drive performance through effective people management and coaching.
• Support the development of business cases to reduce labor, packaging, and other operating costs.

Key Relationships

• Peer Sr. Operations Managers
• DC Operations Leadership Team
• HR Management
• Support Areas: IC/QA, Productivity Planning, Engineering, Maintenance, etc.
• Global Logistics & Distribution Teams
• Local and Global IT
• Finance Controlling

Requisite Education And Experience / Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum of Bachelor’s degree or 5+ years of related industry experience.
• Minimum of 5 years of progressive work experience with demonstrated knowledge of current supply chain solutions and processes.
• Project and process management skills within four-wall Distribution Centers.
• Prior experience leading leaders.

Benefits

• Robust and progressive medical coverage including HSA (Health Savings Account) with employer funding or FSA (Flexible Spending Account) options, dental, vision, prescription drug coverage, adoption, with surrogate and fertility support, short and long-term disability, and basic life and AD&D insurance.
• Employees are able to enroll in adidas’ 401k plan and Stock Purchase Plan with employer match.
• Full-time employees are eligible for education assistance and generous Leave policies including 12 weeks of paid parental leave.
• Earn an annual bonus based on both company and personal performance.
• Able to accrue prorated flexible time off in the amount .4388 hours per day that increases with years of service, twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year and Service Time Off during milestone years.