Church Brothers Farms is a vertically integrated family owned and operated company that produces a full line of fresh vegetables year-round with an in-house farming/harvest program and state-of-the-art processing plant, True Leaf farms. We are a grower-owned processor, farming the majority of our raw product ourselves, adhering to industry-leading food safety and quality standards. The Church family has a legacy of service and innovation, we deliver produce with passion.
Location
This position will be required to travel as needed to various locations California (San Juan Bautista/Salinas/Imperial), Arizona (Yuma) and various regions in Mexico.
Vice President of Warehousing, Distribution, and Fulfillment will lead the day-to-day operations of distribution and warehouse operations for a multi-faceted organization spanning across California (San Juan Bautista/Salinas/Imperial), Arizona (Yuma) and various regions in Mexico.
This position will establish the strategic direction of warehouse distribution centers to meet fulfillment needs, with a focus on efficient and effective processes and systems.
The ideal candidate for this position will have proven experience leading a diverse distribution team and implanting improvements and strategy in a complex environment. Important elements of this position include process improvement, forecasting, planning, modeling, inventory management, transportation, and warehouse and distribution management. The ideal candidate will have a good understanding of information systems and how to turn big data into useful information.
This is a key leadership position responsible for developing and executing strategies to build processes that optimize cost and performance and create rapid growth, propelling Church Brothers to the next level.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITES
Leadership
- Lead, motivate, develop a progressive team
- Provide leadership and facilitate cross-functional problem solving across the enterprise to optimize fulfillment execution.
- Provide management of customs compliance program and ensure adherence to all governmental policies
- Champion efficiency ideas, cost reduction measures and assists with the implementation of change
- Accountable for the performance of Warehouse Operations (Inventory, Fulfillment and Receiving) and Transportation
- Provide direction and manage overall activities to drive solid execution of strategies in order to realize measurable improvements in performance and growth
Continuous Improvement
- Use systems and information to drive process improvement.
- Design future end-to-end processes, operating models, and capabilities required to deliver industry leading fulfillment capability
- Research and implement leading edge technologies and processes for continuous improvement and innovation to streamline warehouse inventory and fulfillment
- Serve as the lead for developing and installing a program of warehouse and fulfillment-based services into facility operations
- Deliver a scalable operating model across multiple locations with different volume and complexities
- Identify, develop, and implement shipping visibility tools to proactively manage the logistics network
Warehouse Distribution & Inventory
- Review and develop processes and procedures for tracking incoming vessels to plan movement to warehouses and cooling facilities
- Manage the design and setup of the physical infrastructure of fulfillment and warehouse service operation for items such as capacity, racking, equipment design, productivity efforts, and outgoing shipments
- Become subject matter expert on the warehouse and fulfillment service system and drive projects within a high technical area to improve the service system.
- Execute and continuously enhance the order fulfillment strategy in alignment with company’s strategy
- Improve customer service through the reduction of order cycle times
- Develop inventory targets and strategies, collaborating with the rest of the business and third-party providers to optimize inventory turns while maintaining high fill rates.
Forecasting & Analytics
- Assess and improve forecasting of demand generated by both the capital and work plans, identifying gaps between the forecasts and business plans.
- Develop and manage KPI and cost measurements.
- Identify annual savings targets and develop strategies for achieving savings to maintain and improve profitability.
- Analyze and assess industry and market dynamics on a regular basis to assess cost, material allocation and modern distribution trends.
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Operations, Logistics or Supply Chain
- 10+ years of distribution management experience, with a record of accomplishment of improving operations and optimizing costs
- Progressive leadership responsibility in Warehouse, Supply Planning, Fulfillment, and Transportation
- Proven experience with managing distribution and warehouse centers with similar complexity
QUALIFICATIONS
- Strong leadership and communication skills that inspire followership
- Demonstrates leadership qualities at the executive level, comfortable with presenting to the C-suite when needed
- Strong analytical and operational skills
- Experience with implementing continuous improvement plans
- Strong knowledge of distribution operations and systems.
- Ability to prioritize and manage daily operations and multiple cross-functional projects simultaneously
- Demonstrated ability to utilize data and metrics to drive decision making and optimization
- Solid organizational skills including attention to detail and multi-tasking
- Excellent verbal / written communication skills
- Strong knowledge of GMP and experience working with Quality, Regulatory, and Technical Operations is necessary
APPLICANTS
Church Brothers Farms is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.
