Senior Manager, Distribution Operations

This role is the primary owner of the relationship with our local Third-Party Logistics (3PL) provider's management team ensuring that we establish and maintain a safe work environment while ensuring that efficiency, safety, quality, cost and productivity goals are achieved. Ensure the warehouse management system to SAP system is accurate, monitor and report on any unexpected results found in analysis, and investigate root cause for any discrepancies and work with cross functional team members to resolve.

Role Overview:

The Senior Manager, Distribution Operations manages all aspects and activities associated with the largest distribution center in the Brother distribution network. This role is the primary owner of the relationship with our local Third-Party Logistics (3PL) provider's management team ensuring that we establish and maintain a safe work environment while ensuring that efficiency, safety, quality, cost and productivity goals are achieved. This position creates an environment of collaboration and respect among the various departments such as Corporate Finance, Information Technology (IT) and Transportation to drive overall supply chain excellence throughout the delivery process.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Distribution Management:

• • Lead, support and drive results through the Third Party Logistics (3PL) provider
  • Manage the relationship with the 3PL with daily meetings with our 3PL distribution partners
  • Oversee the performance of the distribution center, both inbound and outbound processes
  • Ensure exceptional outcomes and Key Performance Indicators (KPI's) to drive continuous improvement and align with overall corporate performance requirements by playing a key operational role in promoting actions and making investments
  • Ensure that order fulfillment and shipping meet customer service objectives and business plan
  • Manage all distribution functions and allocate internal and external resources to meet service level agreements and customer service objectives through 3PL Management

Inventory Operations:

• • Ensure the warehouse management system to SAP system is accurate, monitor and report on any unexpected results found in analysis, and investigate root cause for any discrepancies and work with cross functional team members to resolve
  • Maintain optimal storage of product to meet operational needs
  • Identify scrap or transfer opportunities to optimize and balance among business divisions and distribution facilities
  • Review receiving activities to ensure accurate inventory receipt and put away and report discrepancies to appropriate personnel following up where necessary to correct
  • Maintain and review report discrepancies to appropriate personnel following up where necessary to correct
  • Maintain and review reports for items shipped short to the end customers, determine root cause analysis, and assist with implementation of solutions
  • Monitor and report any shipments which do not post goods issue and report to appropriate personnel for direction and disposition

 

Strategic Direction:

 

• • Create and recommend strategic plans and prepare complete action plans for the performance improvement and cost reduction of distribution activities
  • Implement production, productivity, quality and customer-service standards as defined in the contract with the 3PL
  • Complete performance audits of the 3PL's performance and identify performance trends and create plans to correct the performance issues
  • Communicate with the Director, National Operations on all aspects of operations, including any issues that may affect the success of the facility or impact to customer deliverable
  • Communicate and collaborate with leadership on critical issues impacting production and the workforce

 

Distribution Operations Systems:

 

• • Determine product handling and storage requirements
  • Develop, implement, enforce and evaluate policies and procedures as defined in the Standard Operation Procedure (SOP) and the 3PL contract

 

Experience & Qualifications:

Education:

 

• • Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent experience) in Supply Chain Management, Business or Engineering

Experience:

 

• • Minimum 10 years:
    
    • Managing operations in a fast-paced distribution center and leading large multi-million dollar projects

 

Software/Technical Skills:

 

• • Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
  • SAP Order Management experience

 

Other Skills/Knowledge/Abilities:

 

• • Working knowledge of Truckload, Less than Truckload (LTL) and Parcel transit process
  • Project management and large project oversight experience
  • Ability to successfully work with people at all levels of the organization
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Additional Details for This Role:

This role will be an onsite role. You are expected to work from the stated job location 5 days a week. #LI-Onsite

 

 

Base Salary

• • The targeted base salary range for this position is $ 115,000.00- $ 130,000.00per year.
  • Base salary is determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the successful candidate, as well as factors such as internal equity, cost of labor in the hiring location, and alignment with market data.

 

Additional Compensation

• • This position is eligible for a 20% bonus at 100% of target, with the opportunity to achieve above 100% dependent on company performance and in alignment with company bonus plans.
  • Bonus awards are discretionary and contingent upon individual performance as well as Brother achieving its corporate objectives, in accordance with the applicable bonus plan in effect