Logistics Leader - Materials

About the role

The Logistics Leader oversees all plant logistics and materials management activities to ensure safe, efficient, and cost-effective operations. This role is responsible for receiving inventory control, material handling, warehousing, and shipping while driving performance in safety, quality, service, productivity, and cost.

Responsibilities

• Safety: Consistently lead first with safety to demonstrate that it is embraced as an immovable value. Develop and maintain safety systems in accordance with K-C standards and lead the team to complete safety objectives and ensure a safe and productive work environment.
• Product Quality/Housekeeping: Maintain systems and procedures in materials in accordance with site quality objectives. Maintain housekeeping programs which meet or exceed department and plant objectives.
• Cost/Asset Management: Drive supply chain value capture programming within materials warehouse to yield transformational cost savings. Manage materials handling costs (i.e. operating supplies, maintenance, labor, gap closure savings, etc.).
• Development of team objectives: Support plant initiatives on Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cost, and People. Provide for the most cost-effective storage, retrieval and issuing of materials in the plant. Support efforts to drive improvements in material flow and storage density. Ensure material inventory accuracy and data integrity through the timely and accurate handling of all inventory transactions for receipt, counting/reconciling, consumption, and production reporting processes.
• Internal Controls: Ensure the effective development and application of internal control systems/procedures, customer service policies and facility standard operating procedures in distribution.
• Communication: Engage back with Staff Distribution on performance to objectives, network standards and programs, and collaborative improvement opportunities. Communicate fully with supervisors, subordinates and others who have need to know.
• Human Resources: Promote a good employee relations climate through the effective and consistent implementation of plant guidelines and procedures that will result in employees considering their plant to be a fair and equitable place of employment. Provide leadership to ensure the organization attracts and retains the best people and fosters an environment which motivates a diverse team to fully use its capabilities in achieving desired business results.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, business or relevant discipline and 5+ years of related experience.
• Expertise in logistics knowledge and skills with understanding of external environment factors that may affect successful plant/logistics operation and results.
• Expert advice, coaching and counseling in the logistics area and across plant operations; also serves as a knowledge resource for other KC plants in the network.
• Good understanding of a Plant Operation and the relationship and integration of Logistics within that Operation.
• Demonstrated capability to facilitate projects/focus groups in a team environment while providing team leadership.