Director, Distribution
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Director leading distribution operations across Ventura Foods’ nationwide food-manufacturing network. Modernizing warehouses, managing 3PLs, reducing costs, and improving customer service.
Responsibilities:
- Lead the company’s Distribution function and deliver an extraordinary customer experience through efficient operations
- Directly oversee the Corporate Distribution team and provide dotted-line oversight of plant Distribution teams
- Improve overall distribution metrics and support plants as needed
- Collaborate with plant leadership to maintain stable operations and advance corporate initiatives
- Develop and execute a Corporate Distribution Operating Model in a matrixed organization
- Build internal partnerships and communicate operating-model results
- Drive waste reduction through continuous improvement initiatives at plant and network levels
- Optimize operating processes, warehouse capacity, distribution labor, material handling equipment, inventory storage strategies, warehouse layouts, distribution technology, and safe food handling practices
- Develop long-term plans to improve service, reduce cost, and expand capacity
- Own outsourced distribution providers and manage 3PL performance, contracts, locations, oversight, service, inventory, cost, and capacity
- Develop the corporate distribution team as process-improvement accelerators and implement best practices for receiving, put away, picking, staging, and loading
- Define distribution performance metrics, build measurement tools, and support sustained operational excellence
- Develop plant-level distribution leadership teams and support career growth and plant self-reliance
- Manage the entire Distribution budget, including internal and 3PL costs
- Partner with plant and finance leadership on budgets and resolve and communicate major variances
- Manage company-wide distribution complaint-rate performance, set targets, analyze deviations, and define improvement plans
- Perform additional responsibilities as assigned
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- 10+ years of progressive leadership experience in warehousing and distribution environments
- Significant experience inside a warehouse leading large teams
- Full operational responsibility for multi-site warehouse operations experience
- Experience implementing and managing continuous improvement tools and management systems, including WMS, ERP, labor management systems, material handling equipment, or warehouse storage systems
- Demonstrated successful project management in distribution and fulfillment operations
- Demonstrated history managing and developing professional-level staff
- Knowledge of current supply chain strategies, efficiency improvement methodologies, operating processes, and warehouse layout design
- Ability to manage multiple staff resources across multiple distribution channels
- Ability to work successfully in a matrixed organization and influence decision-making and performance
- Ability to lead teams across multiple sites, including direct and dotted-line reporting structures
- Ability to direct complex multiple activities and projects while balancing personnel and other resources to meet deliverables on time
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
- Effective presentation and technical skills
- 3PL experience strongly preferred
- Food distribution experience helpful
- Willingness to travel 50–75% in North America
- Ideal candidate lives near Irvine, CA; Dallas, TX; Chambersburg, PA; or Atlanta, GA
Benefits:
- Medical, Prescription, Dental, & Vision – coverage beginning on your 1st day for eligible employees
- Profit Sharing and 401(k) matching (after eligible criteria is met)
- Paid Vacation, Sick Time, and Holidays
- Employee Appreciation Events
- Employee Assistance Programs
- Annual bonus (based on the incentive program terms and conditions)
- Career growth opportunities
- Training
- Supportive, collaborative workplace environment
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