Wellness Pet Company Hiring for Transportation & Warehouse Manager at Burlington, MA Full Time

The Wellness Pet Company crafts and produces premium natural pet food, treats, and dental chews. We believe that natural, premium nutrition focused on proven health outcomes is the foundation of creating a mutual wellbeing for pets and their families. As a community of people, Wellies are positively obsessed about how to win for pets and their parents. We believe in the difference we make every single day, and we know that when we work collaboratively, Wellies are unstoppable — Not only in providing the best nutrition to pets, but in building a better tomorrow for pets, their parents, and the world.

Your

When you join Wellness Pet, you join a team whose aligned values and purpose create a unique and exciting place to work every day. Join us on our adventure to fulfill a life of wellbeing together with pets and their parents. Come for a walk with us today!

What You’ll Accomplish

Our Distribution & Logistics Manager will manage relationships with our third-party distribution and logistics partners to deliver strategic company growth and service objectives. This individual will lead key projects that will optimize growth, drive cost management, and reduce lead times – all of which are critical to our ability to deliver nutritious meals to the pets we love. In addition, you’ll:

• Manage and lead the internal logistics team and foster strong relationships with our external distribution centers and transportation providers
• Lead and participate in cross-functional teams and work closely with our third party warehouse partners and freight managed partners to achieve superior levels of performance in distribution, delivery, and service
• Lead transportation RFP’s
• Work closely with our financial planning and analysis function as well as external partners on forecasts, measuring actuals against plan and report variances
• Manage and lead strategic projects to execute major productivity projects
• Develop and maintain detailed key performance indicators, carrier scorecards and monthly report-outs
• Review third party warehouse key performance indicators and work collaboratively to ensure they are being met
• Collaborate and manage daily volumes with Customer Experience and third party logistics partners to ensure level loading
• Drive continuous improvement projects, identify efficiency opportunities, and implement corrective actions
• Establish and manage effective relationships along with addressing daily inquiries and tasks as they arise with third party logistics partners, freight partners, and internal cross-functional team members
• Maintain compliance standards and work with our internal compliance team to report out, identify trends and develop action plans in an effort to reduce and eliminate chargebacks, OS&D (overages, shortages, damages) and any other compliance related matters
• Oversee global freight with a focus on import and export compliance and documentation
• Development of standard operating procedures

Who We’re Looking For

Team Wellie is a group of people who are truly obsessed in all the best ways about winning for the consumer and the pets they love. And so we are seeking an individual who:

• Is consumer focused in all they do
• Continually challenge themselves to go the extra mile to get the job done, and ensure it’s done the right way as opposed to the easy way
• Hold themselves and others accountable
• Embraces continual development through the sharing of feedback and investment in learning opportunities.
• Is a true collaborator, sharing resources, and engages in healthy debate
• Celebrates differences and strives to learn from others who are different from themselves
• Gives back to their community and supports sustainable practices

Specifically for this position, we’re also seeking an individual who possesses:

• A bachelor’s degree in logistics, operations, business, or similar disciplines or equivalent related work experience
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in a logistics or distribution role
• A minimum of 2 years of project management experience leading a cross-functional or distributed team
• Demonstrates strong analytical, planning, and organizational skills
• Proven success working in a very fast paced and dynamic environment
• Has strong knowledge of Transportation Management System (TMS), Business Intelligence (BI) reporting capabilities, and ERP systems
• Proven track record managing transportation and warehousing costs
• Experience in leading a team in a fast paced and high growth environment
• Is able to travel approximately 10%

Why Work for Wellness Pet

We care about the wellbeing of our people, their families and their pets. So we treat every Wellie to a comprehensive benefits package full of extras to support their health, pets, passions, and professional Development. More information about our benefits can be found on our website.

The Wellness Pet Company is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. We celebrate diversity and are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.