Sr Warehouse Operations Manager

The Coca-Cola Company - Coopersville, MI

Full-time - Mid Level

Coopersville, MI

Beverage and Tobacco Product Manufacturing

About the position

The Sr. Warehouse Operations Manager at fairlife, LLC is responsible for leading and managing the overall warehouse department at the Coopersville, MI manufacturing site. This role involves overseeing warehouse operations, ensuring safety, quality, productivity, and financial targets are met. The manager will also handle inventory control, optimize storage, and implement continuous improvement projects while maintaining effective communication with the workforce and third-party logistics partners.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for daily third-party logistics (3PL) communication and process improvement, on-site warehouse operations and inventory control team for a five-line dairy manufacturing plant.
• Communicate and engage with the workforce at every level to build trust, continuity, and collaboration throughout the teams, consistently demonstrating the fairlife culture of Believe in Better.
• Manage the teams for the receiving, handling, storage, movement, and inbound materials for production and outbound finished goods to meet daily production goals and identify opportunities for improvements in efficiency.
• Partner with fairlife supply chain and Coca-Cola NAOU to ensure inventory management and customer service expectations are achieved.
• Maintain receiving, warehousing, and distribution operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing program, operational, and personnel policies and procedures.
• Comply with federal, state, and local warehousing, material handling, and shipping requirements enforcing adherence to requirements, and advising management on needed actions.
• Facilitate and control inventory levels by designing and executing a best-in-class cycle counting program.
• Maintain physical condition of the warehouse by continuously improving and implementing optimized layouts, inspecting equipment, executing on 5S initiatives and issuing work orders for repair and requisitions for replacement.
• Grow a high-performing team of capable leaders and operators with an ownership mindset by establishing effective training and development programs and work standards.
• Develop and enable warehouse metrics that drive Safety, Quality, Productivity, and Customer Service.
• Achieve financial objectives by managing the P&L, efficiencies, productivity, workforce effectiveness, analyze variances and establish corrective actions.
• Leverage available data and systems to move the warehouse organization into the digital age, finding opportunities to eliminate manual or paper-based workflows and replace them with technology-enabled processes that improve efficiency and effectiveness of the team.
• Maintain FEFO methodology using the warehouse management system, reporting & analytics.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management or related field preferred or six years of experience in a production CPG warehouse setting and/or a combination of experience and education.
• Demonstrated leadership experience in warehouse, logistics or supply chain operations field required, including the ability to lead and inspire teams across multiple shifts, empowering employees to do their jobs in the most effective way.
• Demonstrated working knowledge of inventory controls, shipping and receiving methodologies.
• Direct experience with lean principles and continuous improvement initiatives, specifically in a warehouse setting.
• Familiarity with typical WMS capabilities and processes, including the ability to design and implement those processes on-site.
• Ability to handle ambiguity and work in a fast paced, entrepreneurial environment.