Director, Warehousing

**WHO WE ARE**

**Our Brands**: The Estée Lauder Companies Inc. is one of the world’s leading manufacturers and marketers of quality skin care, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. The company’s products are sold in approximately 150 countries and territories under brand names including: Estée Lauder, Aramis, Clinique, Prescriptives, Lab Series, Origins, Tommy Hilfiger, MAC, Kiton, La Mer, Bobbi Brown, Donna Karan New York, DKNY, Aveda, Jo Malone London, Bumble and bumble, Michael Kors, Darphin, Tom Ford, Smashbox, Ermenegildo Zegna, AERIN, RODIN olio lusso, Le Labo, Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle, GLAMGLOW, By Kilian, BECCA, Too Faced and Dr. Jart+.

To learn more about our unique corporate culture in Canada, please visit LinkedIn.

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The primary purpose of this role is to lead all warehousing, inventory management and material movements between manufacturing sites in Canada and third party warehouses supporting manufacturing sites in Canada. This will include meeting operational KPIs, assessing resources to ensure the needs of the business are met, managing cost, optimizing third party usage and spend, developing capability and being forward looking to develop strategy and continuous improvement initiatives.

This position sits on the Operational Leadership Team of Canada and has a shared accountability for Canadian performance.

**KEY ROLES & RESPONSIBILITIES**

**Performance Management**
- Develop 3 years Goals and Strategy for Plant Logistics Organization based on Manufacturing Goals/ Strategy and industry benchmarks in Plant warehousing operations. Convert Strategy into action Plan on Yearly basis, Develop 90 days actions, track/ monitor progress.
- Define key KPI (In-process measures) of warehousing operations to achieve Cost and Cash goals of Plant/ Business. Monitor the progress through and deliver the results.
- Engage internal warehousing team and 3PL interfaces to drive strategy to action and goal achievement. Own the process to deploy goals/ action to individuals in the group.
- Create/monitor operating budgets for warehousing operations across the Canada Manufacturing campus.
- Responsible for ELC site warehouses and third party partners supporting manufacturing operations Maintain compliance with Corporate and Government policies such as: Sarbanes Oxley, Environmental Health and Safety, FDA, QA, HR and GMP.
- Build strong relationships with 3rd party leaders to insure programs are completed in a timely fashion. Maximize value stream from 3PL partners with end-2-end view of material flow from raw materials/components to finished goods.

**Organization & Leadership Development**
- Lead a group of 40+ employees and 40+ contractors in warehousing operations via 4 Direct reports i
- Define needed Plant Logistics organization structure, capabilities and system and lead change management execution.
- Approve annual merit increases, resolve conflicts, manage direct / indirect workforce, develop, review and approve exempt bonus objectives and payouts.
- Develop and drive high performance organization cultural transformation, capabilities development in warehouse operations via daily management work process, PDCA and brand/consumer delight culture. Maintain employee relations
- Develop and manage direct reports Performance Development Plans that are in support of the business strategy and the individual’s continued growth.
- Develop and implement the roadmap of self-directed team to deliver the highest business and organization performance

**Continuous Improvement**
- Strive for continuous improvement through the adoption and implementation of Operational Excellence programs.
- Digitial Transformation - lead initiatives to engage both local and global partners to develop strategies and implement digital solutions within Warehousing and Logistics operations (ex: real-time visual shop floor programs, paperless operations, automatic system generated KPIs, and data analytics that drive business performance.)

**Change management and innovation delivery***
- Collaborate with operations and Planning teams to drive process changes
- Create the innovation culture and Kaizen systems
- Role model and embrace the changes
- Business Continuity Plan - Develop and monitor BCP plans for operations manufacturing warehouse operations.

**Standard Management**
- Role model safety standards, culture and champion for the zero safety incidents
- Role model compliance and raise the bar on daily standard management
- Role model perfect quality culture through technical innovation, people capabilities and system
- Role model the 5S standard every day in and day out

**Qualifications**
**Minimum Education Level**:Tertiary Degree

**Minimum Years of Experience: 7** years

**Additional Job Specifications**:
This position has a multi-site responsibility within Canada. Ability to be able to travel autonomously between sites is required.

**Job**: Manufacturing - Supply Chain

**Primary Location**: Americas-