Sr. Operations Manager, Fulfillment (New Site Launch)

About Us

Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston or Berlin, or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world, we’re reinventing the way people shop for their homes. Through our commitment to industry-leading technology and creative problem-solving, we are confident that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If you’re looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, then you’ll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.

What You'll Do

• Develop robust, trusting relationships with key stakeholders and senior leadership, and identify opportunity to improve the fulfillment center operations.
• Oversee the overall safety, employee engagement, collaboration, quality, performance and customer experience of the fulfillment center operations
• Create and maintain a strong safety culture that continuous seeks to eliminate risks from the operation
• Command a strong senior presence, lead and build a team of high performing operations managers & operations supervisors
• Drive creation of quality initiatives, process change initiatives and other Lean initiatives to enable their functional area and ultimately the fulfillment center to meet and exceed business plans
• Partner closely with a variety of groups company- wide, including transportation, S&OP, data integration, employee engagement, inventory planning, engineering and others to coordinate cross functional projects
• Monitor and drive key performance end to end metrics to ensure that we are providing excellent customer experience and delivering on our promise
• Contribute to the development of new tools, processes and technology which make our teams more efficient and effective
• Support operational strategy and innovation to drive business goals for revenue, operational performance, and profitability
• Manage multiple priorities in a face-paced environment with effective communication and thorough follow through
• Establish sound process improvement initiatives that drive year over year improvement, as well as streamline and optimize day-to-day operations
• Regularly communicate performance trends and improvements to the organization

What You'll Need

• Experience with complex operational, process, and performance improvement projects (lean or six sigma experience highly valued) including process mapping and process re-design
• 5+ years of e-commerce, supply chain, operations, or logistics experience
• Strong process, manufacturing, or engineering background with an ability to understand work flow and throughput in the operation
• Ability to work collaboratively across functions and synthesize multiple points of view into a streamlined action plan
• Proven ability as a passionate people-centric leader who can effectively drive results in a fast-paced and rapidly growing company
• Demonstrate passion and continued focus of safety as a value rather than just a priority
• Able to hit the ground running – a confident, entrepreneurial self-starter with the ability to manage and prioritize projects to delegate tasks appropriately
• Demonstrate leadership in building a culture of Continuous Improvement for process and operations
• Analytical ability necessary to gather and interpret data to further develop, recommend and implement solutions
• Technologically savvy, collaborative confident leader, familiarity with google suite products a plus
• Extremely organized, meticulous and detailed oriented

Equal Opportunity Employer  

At Wayfair, we don’t just accept differences - we celebrate it and support it. Wayfair is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. Wayfair does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

 

Please note: This position is NOT a remote opportunity and role will be onsite in our new facility launch in Richmond, BC. 

Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities

Wayfair is fully committed to providing equal opportunities for all individuals, including individuals with disabilities. As part of this commitment, Wayfair will make reasonable accommodations to the known physical or mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on business operations. If you require a reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or in