DSD Merchandisers Hiring for Distribution Center & Shipping Manager Job at Livermore, CA Full Time

DSD Merchandisers is a 25-year-old, rapidly growing, family-owned food company headquartered in Livermore. We were recently named one of INC ‘s 1000 fastest-growing companies, and work with retailers both large and small across the Western US. You can find more info about us at www.dsdmerchandisers.com.

We’re currently recruiting for a Warehouse/Logistics Manager, responsible for overseeing and strengthening our distribution and warehousing operations as our order volume continues to grow. Reporting to the company’s President, you’ll work with other senior staff as well as internal and external partners to ensure that our customers stay happy, your team keeps performing and developing, and the company maintains its best-in-class position in the market.

This role will have the following responsibilities:

• Owns the process of successful order intake through delivery for our customers, ensuring that orders are received, processed, shipped, and delivered smoothly

• Controls the flow of products from point of origin to point of delivery, keeping track of stock levels, delivery times, transport costs, and accuracy

• Builds, manages, and develops an effective, happy team of order pickers, stockers, warehouse support, and drivers, adding to and making changes to the team as necessary to ensure the work is high-quality and sustainable

• Manages our driving team, ensuring safe and compliant operation of trucks and efficient, customer-satisfying performance each day

• Develops and implements strategies, plans, procedures, and budgets to ensure customer satisfaction within designated targets around efficiency and accuracy

• Maintains metrics and analyzes data to assess performance and identify improvements, reporting to ownership on performance and plans to improve

• Reviews existing processes, people, and procedures for effectiveness and efficiency, making changes in pursuit of better cost control or increased effectiveness as needed

• Manages the safety and compliance of the warehouse, reducing the likelihood of injuries and risks while adhering to existing food safety, ISO, and OSHA guidelines for operation
• Occasionally jump into cover for the team as needed; this might include helping process orders or handle other office tasks, unloading trucks, picking orders, or whatever else is needed to get the job done in a timely and thorough way

You will do well in this role if you meet the following criteria:

• 5+ years of experience in warehousing and logistics, with increasing responsibility in people and process management

• Experience with introducing new products and product lines, working with distribution and sales teams on new projects, products/product lines, and formats

• Experience working with third-party shipping partners, ensuring quality service and negotiating rates and service levels

• Experience with warehouse management/ERP systems and shipping software

• Essential skills include the ability to think creatively, the capacity to reason logically, interpersonal skills, and skill in data analysis

• Comfortable working in teams sharing knowledge and delivering to team milestones

• A desire to work in a small company, covering multiple roles, and developing processes that may not exist now but are needed as we grow with a focus on control of costs and enhancing customer satisfaction

• Able to work in Livermore, CA

What We Offer:

Our full-time team members receive a comprehensive benefits package including competitive compensation, health insurance (medical, dental and vision coverage), paid holidays, sick time, and a vacation accrual program. We also have all the snacks you could ever want.

Physical Requirements:

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 of the position.

• Ability to work while sitting for long periods of time

• Repetitive motions of hands and fingers

• Regularly required to walk and stand

• Occasionally lift and carry objects weighing up to 25 pounds a distance of 50 feet

• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus

DSD is an EOE.’
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Work Remotely

• No

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $90,000.00 – $110,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• Monday to Friday

Supplemental Pay:

• Bonus pay

Work Location: One location