Warehouse Manager, Fulfillment Operations

Description

Summary Description:

At The Gorilla Glue Company, we're passionate about building strong brands with our fantastic team of employees. We believe in promoting a culture of excellence that empowers, engages, and connects people. This position will manage the order fulfillment operations for the Gorilla Glue Sharonville facility.

What’s in it for you?

Gorilla Glue has been recognized as a top place to work for 14 years in a row, thanks to our commitment to creating a supportive and engaged workplace culture. We offer competitive compensation packages, comprehensive healthcare benefits, and other perks and incentives to ensure our employees feel valued and supported.

Joining the Gorilla Glue family means being part of a team passionate about building strong brands and promoting a culture of excellence. As an employee, you'll be able to help create high-quality products and build brands that people love. Join us in an inspiring workplace where you can belong, grow, and make a difference.

What will your day look like?

• Maintain a safe and healthy work environment by establishing, following, and enforcing standards and procedures.

• Building and cultivating team member morale, motivation, and engagement. Align own and team’s efforts with the Gorilla Way strategies and direction.

• Mentoring, training, and developing teammates for career progression and learning.

• Develop warehouse picking operations by analyzing process workflow, manning and space requirements.

• Developing, maintaining, and reporting on performance metrics through the daily monitoring of labor.

• Meeting the fulfillment financial objectives by forecasting requirements and initiating corrective actions.

• Identify trends or operational deviations that affect the fulfillment operations plan

• Research trends and root causes and identify solutions that best address them, accurately analyze the most critical facts to understand problems.

• Assisting with the implementation of new equipment and processes.

• Project Management in conjunction with other departments.

• Delegating tasks properly while still achieving a “hands on” approach. Help others in team to prioritize tasks and ensure achievement of critical individual and group goals

• WMS Super User.

• Other duties assigned by management.

Qualifications

What will you bring to the table?

• Requires a minimum of 10 years' experience in a warehousing environment.

• BS in a relevant field, such as Operations Management or Logistics is preferred.

• An equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered.

• Seven years of experience managing direct reports (supervisors) in a fast-paced environment.

• Experience in managing order fulfillment to large retailers both domestically and internationally via parcel, ocean, LTL and FTL.

• Ability to manage and lead through periods of significant company growth.

• Should be goal oriented, confident, outgoing, and able to work well under pressure while succeeding within a collaborative environment.

• The ability to influence and lead a multi-shift operation.

• Strong WMS experience required (Oracle WMS implementation experience preferred).

• Continuous Improvement/Lean background.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; ability to collaborate across departments.

• Requires strong organizational skills, methodical problem-solving skills and demonstrates a high level of attention to detail.

Physical Demands:

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to stoop, reach, bend, stand, walk, lift, pull, push, grasp, talk, hear, see, and lift to 50 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision such as reading handwritten and or typed material and must have the ability to focus.  Must be mobile and transfer from building to building.

Company Values:

Adhere to The Gorilla Glue Company’s Core Values that ensure everyone works together to exceed expectations.

• Have fun, be passionate and show it!

• Act with integrity and respect in all relationships.

• Communicate openly and appreciate the effort of others.

• Embrace knowledge, growth and change.

• Strive for excellence in what we do every day!