Logistics Manager

Primary Responsibilities

• Manage daily functions and processes for the warehouse, material handling, shipping, and receiving operations. Includes safety, material flow, inventory control, warehouse management.
• Cook out receiving/shipping functions, to ensure that the highest level of customer service is delivered on a daily basis.
• Facilitate production by pre-staging/pre-weighing raw materials prior to initiation of batch/campaign.
• Ship Materials: Ensure on-time/in full delivery to customer as promised in conjunction with customer service, quality and transportation carriers.
• Partner with Customer Service, Production, Quality and other internal functions to ensure internal/external customer expectations are met/exceeded.
• Partner with Purchasing/Supply Chain department to assist in inventory control/management.
• Provide effective leadership for supervisory staff. This includes coaching, counseling, training, and performance review.
• Receiving Materials: Ensure timely and accurate receipt and put away of incoming materials/packaging/supplies/etc. and proper entry into SAP system.
• Cook out operations to maintain proper and organized storage of all materials – both physical and electronic. Included, but not limited to, raw materials, WIP, finished goods and packaging. Conduct cycle counts/physical inventories. Audit and reconcile inventories as needed. Focus on Continuous Improvement.

Specific Skills & Abilities Requirements

• Demonstrated abilities to manage personnel/staffing including coaching and employee development.
• Ability to clearly communicate upwardly to senior management and downwardly to employees as well as effective communication to customers and vendors.
• Ability to identify problems and problems solve via engaging appropriate resources internally and externally.
• Ability to assemble, develop, motivate and lead team to high performance standards.
• Ability to work in a high stress and complex environment.
• Ability to develop mutually respectful relationships at all levels within and outside the organization.
• Ability to make routine decision in areas within responsibility and alert management when decision require senior management approval.
• Ability to manage against established budgets.
• Ability to provide required reports in timely and accurate manner.
• Ability to utilize allotted space and systems in effective creative manner.