Assistant General Manager Jobs

Red Stag Fulfillment is a logistics and fulfillment organization built to enable companies to grow and scale their businesses. Headquartered in Knoxville, Tennessee, Red Stag was born out of eCommerce with one mission to enable our clients to grow their business by redefining the 3PL experience for both clients and employees. By leveraging technology to ensure accurate, reliable, secure, and fast shipping, we have quickly established ourselves as a world-class fulfillment and logistics company.

At Red Stag Fulfillment, we understand that our team members are our most important asset. We have grown into one of America’s best order fulfillment companies by building a team of people who are eager to be a part of our growth. To make this happen, our team members show up and give their all every day. Our core values are of paramount importance and inform and guide all our decisions.

Here at Red Stag

• We sweat the small stuff.
• We treat everyone with dignity and respect.
• We always seek to improve.
• We have positive attitudes.
• We act like we own it.

You are the candidate we are looking for if 

• You are a self-starter and are often described as a “go-getter.”
• You have a strong background in making data-based decisions using analytics.
• You have a proven record of training and maintaining uncompromising safety standards. 
• You can work in a variety of capacities including leading from in front, or behind the scenes. 
• If you’re up for the challenge, we want to hear from you! 
• Your idea of fun is anticipating problems and ensuring they never become issues at all.
• You can get up to speed quickly and do whatever it takes to get the job done.
• You live to serve, and you love seeing the teams you support win. You LOVE logistics and solving complicated puzzles.
• You can fight fires, but you live for fire prevention and staying at the head of a fast-moving train. 
• If you are more comfortable with someone directing your day-to-day activity — i.e., telling you exactly what to do — then this is not the position for you. But, if you like the idea of diving right in, getting stuff done, and actively growing in new areas, then this might be your perfect fit. 
• You are an expert in setting crystal-clear expectations, coaching, and training to maintain those expectations, and holding people accountable. 
• You thrive in a fast-paced, high-demand environment, where business needs are constantly changing. 

The core mission of the Assistant General Manager is to assist the General Manager in leading day-to-day operations of multiple warehouses, while maintaining the exceptionally high standards of Red Stag Fulfillment by ensuring volume, financial, and quality standards are maintained or improved, sustaining appropriate staffing levels, mentoring employees throughout the warehouse, and managing multiple departments. 

About the Role 

The world of eCommerce is moving at lightning speed, and that pace of change requires an enthusiastic team member who has a servant leadership mentality, a keen eye for detail, experience developing high-performance leadership teams, and a demonstrated ability to make data-based decisions. These skills will be critical for the role of Assistant General Manager at Red Stag Fulfillment. In addition, the Assistant General Manager will be responsible for assisting the General Manager in setting and maintaining appropriate staffing levels and coaching and mentoring Support Managers and Process Leads. 

• Ensure SOPs for each department are established, documented, trained, followed, and maintained. 
• Assist the General Manager in owning 100% of the operational activities of the warehouses including, but not limited to, the outbound, inbound, inventory, kitting, and LTL departments. 
• Measure space, equipment, and labor utilization.
• Foster a culture of development and inclusion that supports and embodies the RSF core values.
• Improve operational efficiencies of the warehouses at your facility.
• Build a high-performance culture that embodies our core values of ownership and sweating the small stuff.  
• Assist the General Manager in owning full responsibility of the facility, which will include financial, operations, personnel, and client success. 
• Be a team player, willing to help in other areas of the organization as needed.
• Improve key operational efficiency metrics that ensure client satisfaction and profitable growth.  
• Achieve and maintain 100% accuracy in inventory. 
• Assist in establishing and maintaining KPIs for each department. 
• Prioritize safe warehouse procedures, identify potential hazards, and recommend improvements to standard processes.
• Acquire, retain, and engage top-tier talent to create a leadership team and a culture of coaching and development. 
• Establish, maintain, and utilize metrics for decision making. 
• Assist in keeping departments appropriately staffed and assist in reducing turnover. 

Desired Characteristics 

• Process Improvement — AGMs need to be able to use process improvement skills and methods to continuously improve the operation they oversee.
• Knowledge — AGMs need to have the pivotal skills of procedure teaching and training, effective communication, computer, and software operations, 5S and Lean principles, and continuous improvement methodology.
• Servant Leadership — AGMs need to embody Red Stag’s servant leadership model of, “We believe that when we take care of our team members who take care of our clients, our business and our team members thrive.”
• Honesty — AGMs need to cultivate a team environment that prioritizes transparency and integrity.
• Core Values — AGMs need to lead with integrity and always promote Red Stag’s core values. The team is the key to success, and AGMs are here to serve them.
• Fiscally Responsible — AGMs need to know how to train their team on processes to ensure the operation is running efficiently, with minimal waste, while achieving key metrics. This includes utilizing resources to balance cycle times, reduce bottlenecks, and maximize capacity and throughput.
• Technical — AGMs need to be the technical leaders who understand how systems and processes work and can guide their teams to troubleshoot issues.
• Growth mindset — AGMs need to foster an adaptable mindset and lead their departments when setbacks occur to see them as opportunities to learn and grow.
• People — AGMs need to know how to lead people well so they can build a team of highly motivated and successful team members. This includes encouraging Process Leads and Team Members, showing empathy, communicating clearly, providing/receiving constructive feedback, taking action to remove barriers negatively impacting our team’s satisfaction and success, and challenging yourself and others for personal growth. We consider these to be key skills of our leaders.
• Community minded — AGMs need to assist the GMs in ensure that Red Stag’s company culture defines how we treat our local communities.

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to access and navigate each department at the organization’s facilities.
• Constantly works in an environment where the temperature matches that of the outside temperature.
• Must be able to work on the warehouse floor when needed including continuous time moving, regular transportation of freight up to 50 pounds (with team lifting heavier items), reaching, bending, carrying, etc.

The next likely role for individuals successful in this role is General Manager.

FLSA Exemption Status Exempt (Salaried)

Travel Requirement 10%-25%

Reports To General Manager