Logistics and Transportation Director
Company: Wild Fork Foods
Location: Miami
Posted on: October 8, 2024
Job Description:
Supply Chain, Procurement & TransportationMiami,Florida The
Logistics Leader is responsible for the procurement and management
of 3 rd party goods and logistics vendors. They will be responsible
for the end to end distribution operations including Distribution
Centers, Transportation, and Purchasing. Your responsibilities
include being the main administrator of logistics systems: supplier
purchasing portals (finished goods and supplies), transportation
management system (TMS), and Warehouse Management System (WMS). You
will be responsible for end to end procure to pay process of
finished goods and supplier compliance management (Collection of
logistics fees, management of Master Service Agreements and
insurance certificates). This is an in-office role based in Doral,
FL. Essential Tasks and Responsibilities: The objectives of the
role are to lead all purchasing & logistics processes that:
- Find savings in logistics services and processes with improved
utilization & efficiencies, solution design, and RFPs & smarter
procurement
- Eliminate/ minimize risk from suppliers and logistics partners
through improved due diligence and risk monitoring processes
- Automate and delegate manual tasks to 3rd parties, eliminate
clerical work with the use of AI/ RPA, EDI, and 3rd party
portals
- Establishes and tracks process metrics and key performance
indicators.
- Manages processes and operations for Warehouse, Shipping,
Receiving, Inventory Control, and Materials Management that
includes but not limited to raw materials, samples, parts,
equipment, and general supplies.
- Collaborates with the Leadership on the strategic planning of
the group.
- Implements, manages, and monitors vendor managed programs and
services.
- Responsible for the management and execution of change
management records and tasks.
- Leads a team of Supply Chain personnel, including organizing
and prioritizing goals and objectives in line with business
strategy. Organizes workload, prioritizes tasks, organizes training
and conducts performance reviews.
- Partners and collaborates with other functions and leaders to
establish and improves processes and procedures to align to the
business model, requirements, and strategy.
- Provides leadership, direction and management of a team, to
support execution of the Supply Chain strategy.
- Provides supervision, training, guidance and performance
management to department personnel.
- Monitors, assesses and communicates risks and delays to project
teams and management on a timely basis.
- Develops and implements policies and procedures for the
operation of Supply Chain activities, ensuring all relevant
regulatory and business requirements are met.
- Develops and implements strategies and goals for specific
products, projects, or processes.
- Creates and effectively communicates supplier, subcontractor
and/or vendor agreements and opportunities to the
organization.
- Implements and maintains material and inventory control
systems, policies, processes and procedures ensuring that a
controlled flow of approved materials timed to meet production
requirements.
- May serve as liaison between the company and the various
governmental agencies and/or audit agencies as required.
Responsible for managing and responding to audit findings and
observations.
- Reviews, and/or implements changes to controlled documents as
needed. May author sections of regulatory documents.
- May execute supplier agreements in conjunction with Legal and
internal clients to ensure contracts terms and conditions are in
compliance with corporate and purchasing guidelines.
- Conducts formal business reviews with key suppliers,
subcontractors and/or vendors to discuss performance on a regular
basis. Manages against contract performance to ensure that agreed
upon cost, service, quality, schedule and flexibility goals are
met.
- Drives improvements that increases efficiency, improves
effectiveness, and provides overall benefit to cost
- May perform Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) to support
both internal and external requirements related to warehouse
capabilities
- Maintain metrics and analyze supply chain data to assess
performance and implement improvements
- Maintain inventory by reconciling order discrepancies and also
ensuring synchronization between company and 3PL for inventory and
cycle count execution
- Assist in creating the company's supply chain strategy by
interfacing regularly with product management, production
operations as well as carriers and customers to discuss and improve
our logistics processes.
- Analyze data from shipping and delivering processes to find
bottlenecks and other issues to ensure facility is meeting a
minimum of 98% on time delivery.
- Evaluate and report on KPI's to ensure cost is being managed
efficiently.
- Monitor Logistics processes and procedures to make sure they
run smoothly.
- Maintain supply chain inventory and records as well as ensuring
dry inventory availability.
- Find cost-effective solutions for supply chain processes.
- Resolve issues that may arise with our transportation carrier
or communicate issues to our transportation carrier that may occur
at the facility that may delay loading and/or on time
delivery.
- Collaborate with other departments to create coordinated plans
for business growth such as supporting inventory availability with
Quality Department.
- Ensure supply chain processes meet legal requirements and
standards.
- Coordinate the transportation planning of customer
replenishment orders in the most cost effective and efficient
manner possible while meeting all customer service
expectations.
- Act as a liaison between transportation, customer, sales, and
operations teams.
- Travel up to 20% Qualifications :
- Associates or Bachelor's degree with a focus on Supply Chain or
Logistics required
- 10+ years of Warehouse experience required
- Experience with managing transportation budgets and
transportation systems required.
- Excellent knowledge of supply chain processes
- Working experience of relevant software (SAP WMS, Microsoft
Office Suite)
- Excellent organizational, project management, and follow
through skills
- Creative problem solving
- A strategic and analytical mind
- Experience managing both 3PL and inhouse warehouse operations,
ideally cold chain.
- Experience with both B2B and Ecommerce direct to consumer
- Knowledge of proper safety procedures, and OSHA guidelines and
requirements.
- Experience with a variety of forklifts and other material
handling equipment
- Strong leadership and interpersonal communication skills,
- Previous retail case picking experience preferred
- Experience in freezer warehouses preferred
- Demonstrated leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills.
- Demonstrates an in-depth understanding of the financial aspects
of Supply Chain operations.
- Experience with designing and implementing organizational and
operational strategy.
- Experience with Supply Chain operations in a clinical
manufacturing environment preferred.
- Knowledge and experience with cold chain logistics
desirable.
- Lean Six Sigma and/or APICS certification and knowledge a
plus
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Keywords: Wild Fork Foods, Key Biscayne , Logistics and Transportation Director, Executive , Miami, Florida
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