Director, Distribution

🕒 September 3

🏄 California, Pennsylvania, +1 more states – Remote

🏄 California – Remote 🔔 Pennsylvania – Remote 🤠 Texas – Remote

💵 $124.9k - $198.3k / year

⏰ Full Time

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👔 Director

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Ventura Foods

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1001 - 5000 employees

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

Logistics • Consulting • Marketing

Ventura Foods is a company that specializes in the production and manufacturing of high-quality food products, focusing on culinary solutions for various sectors. They are involved in operations that include manufacturing, engineering, quality assurance, and supply chain management, with a commitment to employee development and customer satisfaction. The company is also dedicated to maintaining a high standard of operations through research and development, ensuring innovation in their offerings.

📋 Description

• 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