Overview
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. The challenges we solve and the innovations we pioneer benefit our customers at every stage of their journey. For more information, visit our website , or connect with us on LinkedIn or Twitter.
As a member of the logistics group, the Regional Warehouse Manager will be responsible for the strategy and planning for their assigned warehouse operations as it relates to business growth, efficiency, and space utilization/planning and will provide thought leadership, execution and support our logistics roadmap.
Responsibilities
- Manage operational improvement along with warehousing/distribution inventory optimization.
- Assisting with the development of the company’s longer-term supply chain strategy for all warehouse locations.
- Ensures all assigned warehouses comply with Federal, State, and Local warehousing, material handling, and shipping requirements by studying existing and new legislation, enforcing adherence to requirements, advising management on needed actions.
- Analyze inventory levels and supports the development of a replenishment strategy with Supply Chain
- Identify opportunities for efficiency and cost reductions leading action to realize improvements
- Mentor local warehouse management team concerning inventory placement and warehouse setup.
- Analyze inventory levels in assigned locations and drive reduction of aged inventory.
- Analyze current network and advise on current capacity/utilization of all warehouses.
- Implement best in class warehousing processes and practices that drive operational efficiencies.
- Implement best practice logistics principles, policies and, processes across the organization to improve operational and financial performance
- Identify savings by removing waste or unnecessary steps in the logistics processes
- Lead a safety culture throughout department. Support all safety initiatives.
- Lead team through your daily example, contributing to our values, our norms, our high standard of performance
- Undertakes other special projects and responsibilities as assigned by supervisor
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
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience/education combination. Minimum of 3-5 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: 30-40% Domestic
