Manager, Corporate Warehousing - Remote

At Eagle Foods we are builders. We are builders of brands, categories, and people. Eagle Foods enjoys a rich heritage with brands that have proven category leadership for more than 150 years. Eagle is a diversified food company producing and marketing sweetened condensed and evaporated milk, snacks and convenient meal solutions products. As a company, Eagle Foods is passionate about fostering an entrepreneurial spirit that boldly builds better people and better brands while focusing on the positive impact our company, our products and our people have on the world. Eagle Foods has a bold family of brands that consumers have come to rely on for decades, including Eagle Brand® Sweetened Condensed Milk and Evaporated Milk, Magnolia® Sweetened Condensed Milk, PET® Milk, Popcorn Indiana, Cretors Popcorn, Helper and Suddenly Salad. Eagle Foods products are marketed and distributed across all U.S. retail channels, including grocery stores, club stores and mass-merchandisers, as well as foodservice and export, U.S. military, and private label business.
Summary
The Manager of Corporate Warehousing is accountable for the physical and financial performance of the Warehousing vertical within the broader Corporate Distribution team
Essential Functions

• Innovative – an out of the box thinker who strives for excellence.
• Thinking Beyond the Plan – can articulate the long-term impact in building teams and establishing systems and processes.
• Foster Teamwork – pull people together; help them form teams and relationships.
• A deep understanding of data and analytics in the distribution space. The successful candidate will have to be an individual contributor in this space as we are a small company with limited resources.
• Own Warehousing vendor invoice audit, reconciliation, recording, challenges, and approval.
• Have a demonstrated track record of driving change, building organizational capabilities and infrastructure
• Drive Company Value – create plans to advance operational performance, focus on the metrics and improve standardization/process.
• Display influence – able to lead others that do not directly report to you to positive outcomes. Be a visible leader and communicator, teach others to communicate.
• Set and manage performance expectations (productivity, cost, OS&D, service, inventory control) for company warehouse locations.
• Own relationship with and provide operational oversight to all company warehouse locations, inclusive of plant offsite location and 3PL operated facilities in the network.
• Lead or participate in improvement projects as requested.
• Develop and lead RFP’s for warehouse facilities and effectively start-up/shut down facilities as needed
• Continuous Improvement – Never satisfied with the status quo. Always seeking to identify and drive further opportunities for improvement.
• 5+ years of progressive management experience in distribution. Ideally the candidate will have experience with truckload and LTL freight, direct and distributor delivery models, and warehouse operations. Small company experience is valued.
• Travel to Eagle operations and office locations, as requested, to support problem investigation, training, and auditing of Eagle practices and to support project activity.
• Act with Intensity – must be urgent and positively engage others, be visible and confident.
• Develop the annual budget for each non plant attached warehouse AND review/provide oversight to plants on the development of their in-site warehouse budgets. Be able to explain and rationalize each site’s budget to leadership.
• Develop warehouse SOP’s for use across our network so that activities and results are predictable site to site and best practices from one facility are being used in all
• Develop metrics and dashboards to analyze and explain warehousing costs, inventory control, productivity, service, and variances to plan in any area.
• Travel: must be able to travel at up to 2 times per month to meet with plant, vendors, and remote staff. Travel needs will vary throughout any given year depending on business needs and not consistently demand up to 2 times per month. During onboarding (first 90 days) travel requirements will be higher (up to 3 trips per month).
• Strong leadership skills, independent thinking, strong organizational and planning abilities, and excellent analytical and problem-solving skills are essential.
• Develop and publish Ad Hoc and/or periodic reports that inform the organization of any current or potential for any future issues.
• Leverage metrics and dashboards to assess performance vs. expectations and work with the sites to identify and implement improvements
• Experience integrating new acquisitions is a plus.
• Oversee inventory control programs and results at plant warehouses and forward DC’s
• Become an operational expert on the company WMS system and provide support to sites as needed. Pull in IT resources where their support is required to fix problems or implement new capability.
• Assess and develop plans to effectively (cost and service) integrate acquired businesses.
• Track record of controlling cost and delivering continuous improvement in transportation and warehousing operations
• Oversee the CHEP program at all locations, ensuring that each facility understands expectations regarding ordering, inventory management and portal entries. Ensure regular inventory control audits are occurring and follow up with local operations leaders when results are trending poorly.
• Technically competent – understands supply chain processes, 3PL service and management concepts, development, analysis, and use of KPI reports to drive results.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to formulate and implement warehousing related procedures in support of company revenue goals and customer service objectives.
• Proven performance and success progressing into positions of increasing responsibility.
• Data and analytics – experience personally building dashboards to regularly assess operational performance and identify loss recovery opportunities., Strong desire to manage through metrics and data.
• Complete weekly book to book inventory audits with all forward warehouse locations. Reconcile issues and engage when results are not meeting expectations.

ID: 2023-1420
External Company Name: Eagle Foods, LLC
External Company URL: https://eaglefoods.com
Street: 1975 E 61st Street