Director Warehousing & Transportation, Chemicals

Job: Director Warehousing & Transportation – Food

Industry: Distribution Transportation Warehousing Supply Chain

Location: Kitchener – Stratford- Woodstock, ON area

Compensation: 140K-160K base; bonus benefits

Work on-site 5 days a week

Our client is a very well-established global distributor -supplier and has a job open for a Director Warehousing & Transportation, a transformational change agent role responsible of Supply Chain Planning Purchasing, Operations, Distribution, Warehousing, Transportation, Inventory and Quality at this site. You will develop the long-term direction of Supply Chain Distribution Operations and translate that into short term goals of this global organization. This is a hands-on, ‘roll-up-the-sleeve’ work culture where you work closely with front line operations provide leadership, coaching and mentoring

The jobs require work on site from the Kitchener – Stratford- Woodstock ON area, five days a week in a non-union facility.

Director Warehousing & Transportation is a change agent role to manage daily inbound, outbound, inventory, storage, capacity optimization, space utilization, transportation carriers, fleet, budgets and performance. You will initiate process improvement and Continuous Improvement projects to improve /reduce costs and improve KPIs and efficiencies in overall supply chain operations transportation warehousing. You will work closely with your team analyze existing processes, define SOPs, KPIs and set up measures.

Director Warehousing & Transportation will ideally already be located in the Southwestern Ontario -Kitchener - Stratford – Woodstock – Brantford - St. Mary’s area with minimum 8-10 years of management experience in warehousing, transportation, supply chain, distribution experience ideally from a food grade facility (preferred); experience leading front line operations manual processes semi-automated equipment is a MUST. Experience managing the complete P&L, budgets, Quality, excellent interpersonal skills and English communication, Lean, Continuous Improvement highly preferred

Qualified applicants ideally in the KW area who can work 5 days a week from the warehouse site in Guelph, Cambridge area, are invited to forward their resumes in MS Word format to [email protected]; Please write " Director Warehousing & Transportation" in the subject line of your e mail.

While we thank all applicants for your interest, only the most qualified candidates will be contacted due to volume of applicants