WAREHOUSE MANAGER SOUTHEAST REGION - AUSTELL, GA

Overview : About Berry

About Berry

At Berry Global Group, Inc. (NYSE : BERY), we create innovative packaging and engineered products that we believe make life better for people and the planet.

We do this every day by leveraging our unmatched global capabilities, sustainability leadership, and deep innovation expertise to serve customers of all sizes around the world.

Harnessing the strength in our diversity and industry-leading talent of over 40,000 global employees across more than 250 locations, we partner with customers to develop, design, and manufacture innovative products with an eye toward the circular economy.

PLEASE NOTE THIS POSITION IS OUT OF AUSTELL, GA - SOME TRAVEL REQUIRED

PURPOSE : As a member of the logistics group, the Warehouse Manager-Southeast Distribution will be responsible for overseeing receiving, warehousing, and distribution for Southeast operations.

It will include, but not limited to receipt, dispatching, picking, storage, fleet maintenance, sanitation, and administrative functions of the warehouse.

In addition, this role will oversee, train, and lead all assigned staff at this location. This warehouse can support inventory from all manufacturing sites across CPNA with a final delivery destination into the Southeast

Responsibilities :

Supervise daily warehouse activities, including quality assurance, inventory control, space management, logistics, floor productivity, and shipping.

Schedule and oversee warehouse team, and manage the flow and quality of work to maximize efficiency and minimize overtime

Assess the need of equipment and staffing to ensure effective loading, unloading, movement, and storage of materials is adequate along with oversight of maintenance on lift equipment.

Meet regularly with warehouse leads to analyze productivity and develop actionable plans for efficiency improvements.

Maintain accurate inventory of all inventory residing within the warehouse

Oversee and manage logistics for transporting products to customers and company facilities, communicating with drivers and air partners to ensure efficient delivery of packages.

Responsible for maintaining and adhering to established Good Manufacturing Procedures (GMP) and Safety Quality Foods (SQF) compliance requirements

Prepare for, and participate in all audits.

Implement and oversee safety protocols for the assigned locations and staff.

Maintain documentation and keeping of accurate records of warehouse activities.

Drive a safety culture throughout department and support all safety initiatives

All other task as assigned by the manager.

Qualifications :

Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience / education combination. Minimum of 5 years of related experience including people management

Experience with warehouse management systems and layout design. Implementation of warehouse management systems.

Record of experience that demonstrates proven team leadership skills and the ability to influence others at all levels within the organization

Strong organizational skills with proven ability to complete multiple tasks simultaneously

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Willingness to travel to support customer and plant requirements - 20-30% Domestic

COMPETENCIES :

Possess UFAA (United, Focus, Accountable, and Agile) leadership behavior

Proven management skills with the ability to optimize team performance and development

Highly skilled communicator with the ability to form and maintain good relationships internally and externally

Strong interpersonal, negotiation and influencing skills

Customer focused

Proven analytical, problem solving and organizational skills

Strong planning skills with the ability to handle multiple projects through to completion and to manage competing priorities

Project management skills

Commercial and financial acumen with a full understanding of the impact of failure in terms of business cost, production schedules and customer order fulfilment

Excellent attention to detail skills

Knowledge of technical regulations related to logistics such as import / export and customs regulations, including security requirements to include certification in dangerous goods handling and aviation security

High degree of knowledge and understanding of a variety of manufacturing and automotive processes and components and of supply chain management

Strong IT systems knowledge and skills including knowledge and understanding of specialist systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Bill of Material (BOM) and customer data systems

Advanced Excel user

Ability to analyze and manipulate technical and complex data and provide meaningful information

Membership of an appropriate professional body such as the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport would be advantageous

Knowledge of lean techniques may be advantageous

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