What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cannabis Distribution Manager position at Nature's NM Management LLC?
Summary
The Distribution Manager should be a detail-oriented individual who can analyze manufacturing, warehouse, and distribution processes to identify areas of opportunity and provide solutions to improve efficiency and inventory accuracy.
The Distribution Manager will be responsible for maintaining the on-going cycle count program along with appropriate process and control activities of the perpetual inventory.
The Distribution Manager will communicate and work closely with all distribution staff and Management to ensure a smooth flow of inventory through the warehouse and distribution network, supported by timely and accurate system transactions, to ensure accurate perpetual inventory records.
Essential Functions
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Lead the distribution team to meet individual and collective goals for high productivity, low inventory shrink, and minimize out of stock items
- Ensure the Leads and Team Members have proper access to the necessary tools and process updates to perform their assigned duties
- Direct daily activity to ensure a safe, secure, clean and fair work environment for team members
- Deliver team member training, provide performance reviews, development, and disciplinary action as appropriate
- Conduct productivity and quality audits and reconcile variances
- Coordinate materials transfers between areas
- Keep equipment operating by enforcing operating instructions; troubleshooting breakdowns; escalating technical issues
- Organize and lead focus on improved productivity levels by improving processes and the efficiency of associates' work
- Liaise with management, technical experts, suppliers, partners, and customer service representatives.
- Identify inventory center system improvements
- Plan, manage, and adjust daily workload and staffing to minimize unplanned overtime
- Ensure shift/daily/weekly workload planning and volume forecasting routines are accomplished (i.e., staffing, equipment, space)
- Anticipate productivity, personnel and resource needs and communicate to appropriate manager
- Ensure company and State Compliance policies are communicated, applied, and enforced (i.e., safety, accounting, operational, regulatory, and administrative)
- Maximize quality and productivity by understanding and mastering all job standards for each function, and evaluating performance variances in order to identify root cause, corrective action and training needs
- Demonstrated recent experience leading a team.
- High degree of technical knowledge relative to inventory management practices and methodologies in a multi-plant environment.
- Demonstrated ability to influence and build consensus among members of the organization.
- Ability to be decisive and persuasive.
- Ability to think strategically through to execution.
- Client service focused.
- Demonstrated experience with Microsoft Office Programs (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, etc.). Intermediate skills required in Excel and PowerPoint.
- Leadership ability and strong goal attainment orientation.
- Self-starter, possessing high degree of self-motivation.
- Strategic thinker sees the big picture while managing the details.
- Drives results with a sense of urgency.
- Team oriented individual with ability to motivate others.
- Understanding of AZDHS laws and practices pertaining to medical marijuana
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
