Manager of Warehouse Systems & Operations (Warehouse Excellence)

At Niagara, we’re looking for Team Members who want to be part of achieving our mission to provide our customers the highest quality most affordable bottled water.

Consider applying here, if you want to:   

• Work in an entrepreneurial and dynamic environment with a chance to make an impact.   
• Develop lasting relationships with great people.   
• Have the opportunity to build a satisfying career.

We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages for our Team Members.

Manager of Warehouse Systems & Operations (Warehouse Excellence)

The Manager of Warehouse Systems & Operations (Warehouse Excellence) provides regional leadership and strategic direction for warehouse execution, leadership capability, and performance improvement across the manufacturing network. This role leads and develops a team of Warehouse managers, ensures alignment between plant leadership and corporate partners, and drives sustained results across safety, quality, service, cost, inventory, asset management, and space utilization. The Manager operates through influence, governance, and structured prioritization to scale best practices, reinforce accountability, and build long-term leadership capability.

Essential Functions

• Develop Warehouse managers to ensure consistent execution and leadership capability across regions.
• Set strategic direction and priorities for Warehouse Excellence initiatives aligned to business objectives.
• Ensure warehouse leadership training, assessments, and onboarding programs are effective, standardized, and sustained.
• Manager accountability for performance outcomes across safety, quality, process time, inventory accuracy, financial performance, asset management, and space utilization.
• Oversee multi-site productivity, cost-saving, and operational excellence initiatives across the network.
• Partners with Plant Directors, Warehouse Managers, and corporate stakeholders to align priorities, expectations, and execution plans.
• Provide escalation support and decision-making guidance for complex operational, leadership, or system challenges.
• Guide change management efforts to standardize best practices and reinforce consistent execution.
• Maintain executive-level understanding of warehouse systems and automation to inform strategy and governance decisions.
• Ensure risks related to operations, leadership, or compliance are identified and addressed with sustainable countermeasures.
• Partners to ensure engineering partnership and technical documentation governance, ensuring warehouse system requirements, SOPs, configuration standards, and change controls are created, maintained, and audit-ready.
• Partners in regional Warehouse Excellence strategy and performance outcomes, while participating in cross‑regional leadership and support as business priorities, network initiatives, or enterprise needs require.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• 6+ years warehouse distribution management/leadership experience.
• 6+ years experience in position management
• 4+ years managing people and/or cross-functional teams.
• Demonstrated success leading multi-site or regional initiatives.
• Ability to influence senior leaders and operate effectively in ambiguity.
• Ability to travel up to 80%.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 8+ years warehouse distribution management/leadership experience.
• 8+years experience in position management
• 6+ years managing people or cross-functional projects.
• Experience leading regional or network-level operational excellence programs.
• Experience with warehouse systems, automation, or large-scale transformations.

Competencies

This position embodies the values of Niagara’s LIFE competency model, focusing on the following key drivers of success:

• Lead Like an Owner
  • Makes safety the number one priority
  • Keeps alert for safety issues and escalates immediately
  • Effectively prioritizes tasks based on department goals
  • Shows respect to others and confronts interpersonal issues directly
  • Prioritizes resolution of customer issues effectively
  • Responds promptly and honors commitments to internal and external customers
• InnovACT
  • Makes recommendations to continuously improve policies, methods, procedures, and/or products
  • Demonstrates adaptability by reacting appropriately to unexpected changes in situations or circumstances
  • Increases performance thro