Description

• Appropriate level of business acumen to participate in annual budget preparations for the Distribution Center:
  • Manage areas to meet and/or exceed budget
  • Proactively identify areas where budget may be at risk
  • Provide solutions, problem solving and ideas to eliminate budget miss and improve budgetary results
  • Participate in weekly, monthly, quarterly, and annual assessment of budget variance on direct and indirect hours used
  • Maintain appropriate level of staffing based on upon budgeting requirements to maintain areas processing through-put
• Use strategy and innovative ideas to maximize efficiency of facilities and operations
• Provide insight and improvement to results
• Proven track record of progressive responsibility and contributing to team success
• Make accurate assessments and effective decisions based on analysis, experience and judgment
• Support accuracy, throughput, customer service metrics as well as other KPI’s identified
• Maintain inventory control and support reduced inventory shrink initiatives
• Can cope with change and directional shifts. Can make decisions and act without having all the information
• Execute innovative and prompt decision-making to achieve improvements to operations through relevant market or customer insights and by listening to associates.
• Partner with Distribution Services Director in striving to continuously improve overall operations, provide weekly written updates to work produced.

• Effective allocation of resources to meet daily, weekly, and monthly objectives
• Collaborate, support, and communicate priorities within direct areas of responsibility and facility. Make changes as necessary to achieve objectives daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly
• Maintain clean areas and safe work habits
• Partner with Engineering team and associates to appropriately establish work methods and metrics to most efficiently measure and complete tasks.
• Track performance against divisional, area and personal goals
• Participate in establishing processing and performance goals of area and DC

• Provide development support to direct reports, exempt and non-exempt associates.

   - Provide feedback to performance and effective coaching to improve performance of direct reports and associates within areas of responsibility

• Build and foster positive, collaborative, and open relationships within functional area, peer group, and other functional areas of HR, LP, IT, and Maintenance.

• Approachable, accessible, and open communications with all associates

• Builds relationships based upon integrity, trust, and mutual respect. Support a work environment that is fair and consistent
• Collaborative support on/with

• Training programs and initiatives
• Associate recognition, inclusiveness, and engagement
• Associate performance review and assessment process
• Safety goals and objectives, consistent with policies and training

• Ensure effective communications—up, down and across the business
• Ability to flex work schedule to meet business needs
• Participate in and support all company provided training initiatives.

  Experience & Education

  • 15 years of successful progressive management experience in distribution/fulfillment environment preferred.
  • BA/BS degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Transportation or demonstrated equivalent

   

  Competencies & Skills

  • Direct to consumer order fulfillment experience preferred
  • Cost-benefit analysis experience
  • Apparel, or retail merchandising industry experience and understanding
  • Project management skills
  • Staff development skills
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills
  • Analytical, Strategic, and tactical planning skills
  • Customer focus
  • Ability to motivate others and build a follow-ship
  • Computer skills; proficiency in Microsoft Office applications
  • Competent in use of computer equipment and word processing, spreadsheet, and database products
  • Ability to collaborate with key business partners, interpret and overcome obstacles, and to continuously improve the customer experience
  • Ability to flex work schedule to meet business needs

   

  Physical Requirements (with or without reasonable accommodation)

  Regularly required to sit, stand, bend and lift/move up to 10 pounds.  May lift/move up to 30 pounds occasionally.