Director of Warehouse Operations-East

fairlife, LLC is a Chicago-based nutrition company that creates great-tasting, nutrition-rich and dairy products to nourish consumers.

With nearly $3B in annual retail sales, fairlife’s portfolio of delicious, lactose-free, real dairy products includes: fairlife® ultra-filtered milk; Core Power® High Protein Shakes, a sports nutrition drink to support post-workout recovery; fairlife® nutrition plan™, a nutrition shake to support the journey to better health.

A wholly owned subsidiary of The Coca-Cola company, fairlife, LLC has been recognized by both Fast Company and Nielsen for its industry leading innovation.

To learn more about fairlife and its complete line of products, please visit fairlife.com.

job purpose:

The Director of Warehouse Operations – East will have direct responsibility for all East orbit warehouses in fairlife’s Supply Chain system to include storage, receiving, loading, and shipping of all raw materials and finished product. In addition, this role will be responsible for coordination and oversight of all East orbit 3PL facilities from a warehouse and inventory standpoint. Ensure optimized storage and utilization of WMS within each warehouse and review short term vs long term needs. Facilitate the management of finished goods inventory levels and partner with Customer Service Planners towards monitoring inventory levels within the network. Ensure compliance with established procedures and maintain effective internal controls over the physical product flow and accounting of inventory, to include receiving, shipping, and all other areas (internal and third party). Support for and execution of the Logistics Operational Excellence framework and associated projects. 

 

responsibilities:  

• Maintain warehousing and distribution operations by initiating, coordinating, and enforcing programs, operational practices, and personnel policies and procedures for all locations in East zone, and partner with West zone Director on a regular basis to ensure consistency and standardization across the network 

• Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local warehousing, material handling, and shipping requirements. Review adherence to requirements and advise on needed actions 

• Safeguard all warehouse operations and contents by establishing and monitoring security and safety procedures and protocols in the respective region 

• Facilitate and control inventory levels by ensuring warehouse managers and inventory teams conduct physical counts; reconcile with data storage systems and WMS 

• Ensure maintenance and physical conditions of all warehouses in West through planning and implementing optimized layouts; inspection of equipment; and work order repair and requisitions  

• Achieve financial objectives for all East zone Warehouse budgets; capital requirements; to include warehouse expansions and racking 

• Responsible for third-party warehouse management and associated shuttle services for all East zone warehouses and 3PLs 

• Responsible for oversight of inventory team and the development and enforcement of inventory control policies within all warehouses in respective region 

• Review space and capacity of warehouses and compare to current requirements and future needs to ensure short term and long-term cost-effective space and allocation 

• Ensure compliance and enforcement of all safety policies, work routines and discipline, training, forklift certification, and replacement, hiring, mentoring, and coaching of engaged warehouse employees 

• Responsible to make sure the right product and the correct quantity is being loaded onto the right trucks at the right time 

• Enforce FIFO and/or FEFO requirements within all warehouses and 3PLs