Supply Chain, Procurement & Transportation Miami, Florida
The Logistics Leader is responsible for the procurement and management of 3rd party goods and logistics vendors. They will be responsible for the end-to-end distribution operations including Distribution Centers, Transportation, and Purchasing. Your responsibilities include being the main administrator of logistics systems: supplier purchasing portals (finished goods and supplies), transportation management system (TMS), and Warehouse Management System (WMS). You will be responsible for the end-to-end procure to pay process of finished goods and supplier compliance management (Collection of logistics fees, management of Master Service Agreements and insurance certificates).
This is an in-office role based in Doral, FL.
Essential Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Find savings in logistics services and processes with improved utilization & efficiencies, solution design, and RFPs & smarter procurement.
- Eliminate/minimize risk from suppliers and logistics partners through improved due diligence and risk monitoring processes.
- Automate and delegate manual tasks to 3rd parties, eliminate clerical work with the use of AI/RPA, EDI, and 3rd party portals.
- Establishes and tracks process metrics and key performance indicators.
- Manages processes and operations for Warehouse, Shipping, Receiving, Inventory Control, and Materials Management that includes but not limited to raw materials, samples, parts, equipment, and general supplies.
- Collaborates with the Leadership on the strategic planning of the group.
- Implements, manages, and monitors vendor managed programs and services.
- Responsible for the management and execution of change management records and tasks.
- Leads a team of Supply Chain personnel, including organizing and prioritizing goals and objectives in line with business strategy. Organizes workload, prioritizes tasks, organizes training, and conducts performance reviews.
- Partners and collaborates with other functions and leaders to establish and improve processes and procedures to align to the business model, requirements, and strategy.
- Provides leadership, direction, and management of a team, to support execution of the Supply Chain strategy.
- Provides supervision, training, guidance, and performance management to department personnel.
- Monitors, assesses, and communicates risks and delays to project teams and management on a timely basis.
- Develops and implements policies and procedures for the operation of Supply Chain activities, ensuring all relevant regulatory and business requirements are met.
- Develops and implements strategies and goals for specific products, projects, or processes.
- Creates and effectively communicates supplier, subcontractor, and/or vendor agreements and opportunities to the organization.
- Implements and maintains material and inventory control systems, policies, processes, and procedures ensuring that a controlled flow of approved materials timed to meet production requirements.
- May serve as liaison between the company and the various governmental agencies and/or audit agencies as required. Responsible for managing and responding to audit findings and observations.
- Reviews and/or implements changes to controlled documents as needed. May author sections of regulatory documents.
- May execute supplier agreements in conjunction with Legal and internal clients to ensure contracts terms and conditions are in compliance with corporate and purchasing guidelines.
- Conducts formal business reviews with key suppliers, subcontractors, and/or vendors to discuss performance on a regular basis. Manages against contract performance to ensure that agreed upon cost, service, quality, schedule, and flexibility goals are met.
- Drives improvements that increase efficiency, improve effectiveness, and provide overall benefit to cost.
- May perform Distribution Requirements Planning (DRP) to support both internal and external requirements related to warehouse capabilities.
- Maintain metrics and analyze supply chain data to assess performance and implement improvements.
- Maintain inventory by reconciling order discrepancies and also ensuring synchronization between company and 3PL for inventory and cycle count execution.
- Assist in creating the company’s supply chain strategy by interfacing regularly with product management, production operations as well as carriers and customers to discuss and improve our logistics processes.
- Analyze data from shipping and delivering processes to find bottlenecks and other issues to ensure facility is meeting a minimum of 98% on time delivery.
- Evaluate and report on KPI’s to ensure cost is being managed efficiently.
- Monitor Logistics processes and procedures to make sure they run smoothly.
- Maintain supply chain inventory and records as well as ensuring dry inventory availability.
- Find cost-effective solutions for supply chain processes.
- Resolve issues that may arise with our transportation carrier or communicate issues to our transportation carrier that may occur at the facility that may delay loading and/or on time delivery.
- Collaborate with other departments to create coordinated plans for business growth such as supporting inventory availability with Quality Department.
- Ensure supply chain processes meet legal requirements and standards.
- Coordinate the transportation planning of customer replenishment orders in the most cost-effective and efficient manner possible while meeting all customer service expectations.
- Act as a liaison between transportation, customer, sales, and operations teams.
- Travel up to 20%.
Qualifications:
- Associates or Bachelor’s degree with a focus on Supply Chain or Logistics required.
- 10+ years of Warehouse experience required.
- Experience with managing transportation budgets and transportation systems required.
- Excellent knowledge of supply chain processes.
- Working experience of relevant software (SAP WMS, Microsoft Office Suite).
- Excellent organizational, project management, and follow-through skills.
- Creative problem solving.
- A strategic and analytical mind.
- Experience managing both 3PL and in-house warehouse operations, ideally cold chain.
- Experience with both B2B and Ecommerce direct to consumer.
- Knowledge of proper safety procedures, and OSHA guidelines and requirements.
- Experience with a variety of forklifts and other material handling equipment.
- Strong leadership and interpersonal communication skills.
- Previous retail case picking experience preferred.
- Experience in freezer warehouses preferred.
- Demonstrated leadership, coaching, and mentoring skills.
- Demonstrates an in-depth understanding of the financial aspects of Supply Chain operations.
- Experience with designing and implementing organizational and operational strategy.
- Experience with Supply Chain operations in a clinical manufacturing environment preferred.
- Knowledge and experience with cold chain logistics desirable.
- Lean Six Sigma and/or APICS certification and knowledge a plus.
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