What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Warehousing position at LAKEVIEW FARMS LLC?
Summary:
The Director of Warehousing is accountable for the design, launch, and ongoing operation of all warehousing and material-handling activities supporting a $1B refrigerated foods platform. This role leads the end-to-end warehouse network, including the design and startup of a new flagship warehouse, while ensuring world-class execution inside SAP EWM across all North American sites.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- New Warehouse Design & Launch: Lead greenfield or brownfield design of a new warehouse supporting refrigerated food production and finished goods distribution.
- Define storage strategy, slotting, dock layout, staging, and MHE strategy.
- Own transition from design through go-live and stabilization.
- Strong ability to work cross-functional with internal and external stakeholders
- Ensure physical design aligns with SAP EWM.
- Serve as business owner of SAP EWM.
- Define warehouse organizational structure, process, and application of technology handling units
- Firm understanding of batch management, FIFO/FEFO, and RF processes.
- Partner with IT and integrators to ensure EWM is the system of record.
- Deliver >99.9% inventory accuracy while achieving safety, cost and service metrics
- Ensure batch traceability, shelf-life compliance, and regulatory readiness
- Drive best-in-class cost per pallet, order fill rate, and cycle time.
- Develop a high performing work system with a culture of continuous improvement
- Drive improvements in human and food safety through total employee engagement
- Set standards and develops management systems for SOPs, training, KPIs, and safety.
- Promoting process excellence and standardization programs across company
- Assists in the resolution of purchased material shortages as needed.
- Presents to Management regarding developments in assigned areas
Qualifications & Experience:
- Bachelor degree in Logistics, Supply Chain or related field
- At least 10 years Warehousing or Supply Chain Management or directly related professional experience.
- 10 years in warehouse, DC, or manufacturing logistics leadership
- Strong ability to work cross-functional with internal and external stakeholders
- Hands-on experience with SAP EWM (not just PowerPoint exposure)
- Proven success in the design, implementation, and commissioning of a new warehouse or distribution center
- Experience in food, beverage, dairy, or refrigerated CPG strongly preferred
- Deep knowledge and hands on warehousing experience with:
- SAP EWM and Batch management
- Inventory Age Management (FIFO)
- Food safety and Traceability
- Best practices associated with people, process and technology
- Is persuasive, demonstrates diplomacy and tact.
- Demonstrates attention to detail through accuracy and completeness of information.
- Ability to perform under pressure and meet deadlines
- Shows initiative (e.g., seeks additional related assignments, pursues self-development, proactively looks for alternatives and solutions and assumes additional responsibilities).
- Strong computer skills and database experience
- Effectively demonstrates public speaking skills both in prepared and impromptu speaking.
- Servant leadership skills with proven experience leading change across all levels of the organization
- Knowledge of company procurement policies, procedures and products preferred
- Manages multiple projects/tasks simultaneously. Demonstrates ability to plan, set priorities, organizes and coordinates