Warehouse Team Leader

**A little bit about us**

Nestle is the world’s largest food and beverage company. We have over 2000 brands ranging from global icons to local favourites and are present in 190 countries worldwide. In Canada, excelling means sharing our passion for our purpose of enhancing quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. It also means living up to our exemplary values which are rooted in respect for ourselves, others, diversity, and the future. We will support and **improve your tasting skills **with a people-focused culture and a flexible and diverse working environment. Join our team to support our purpose of enhancing quality of life and contributing to a healthier future. Bringing our brands to life and making them as relevant for today’s consumers as they’ve always been takes vision, passion, and an innovative mind-set. If you can bring that into the mix, we know the magic will happen.

**Position Snapshot**
**Business areas: Nestle Canada Inc.**
**Job title: Warehouse Team Leader**
**Location: Toronto**
**Grade Level: 15**

**Position Summary**

We are looking for a Warehouse Team Leader based at our Toronto location. This role will be responsible for promoting and ensuring the Health & Safety of all operators, and compliance with all GMP’s and Food Safety programs, making sure all quantitative and qualitative measures in the operating plan are met including those related to line reliability, labor utilization, resource optimization and losses and ACTs the Compliance Champion for Warehouse.

The role addresses issues and upgrades that will make the system more efficient. Warehouse Team Leader will work closely with the DC team to manage inventory levels and variances, marinating high customer service and efficiency levels, Indirect Material Suppliers to ensure supply and 3PL Management.

**A day in the life of a Warehouse Team Leader**:
As a Warehouse Team Leader, you will be Leader of all aspects of the Warehouse Department including scheduling, coaching, and training warehouse personnel and to develop a culture of trust and to cultivate the best by inspiring, challenging and promoting our workforce.

**You will**:

- Monitor all administration control for all shipping and receiving activities, monitor inventory accuracy and maintain FEFO adherence
- Supervise the movement of all goods. External: carrier selection, load planning, and cost/benefit analysis. Internal: space planning, equipment, and resource management
- Establish and maintain good working relationships with Distribution Centers, Logistics, carriers, and suppliers
- Promote and enhance a positive Labour-management relationship including efforts to continuously improve teamwork and establish high levels of employee involvement
- Develop, identify, implement, and actively participate in the continuous process development to improvement initiatives towards achieving operating plan objectives
- Coordinate with all Departments to maximize overall effectiveness and efficiency of the operation
- Initiate process improvements by coaching the warehouse group to identify potential savings and assist with their implementation, deliver effective training and performance management, discipline adherence and grievance resolutions to the unionized warehouse workforce
- Responsible for ensuring the allocation of regular and overtime hours, and appropriate vacation coverage
- Responsible for all investigations and root cause analysis related to warehouse incidents
- Monitor, communicate and enforce personal safety and facility protection procedure ensuring compliance with all government legislations
- Provide direction to the Buyer to ensure the facility maintains an efficient inventory level to meet requirements, validate materials usage transactions and associated variances
- Continually monitor existing processes and procedures in order to implement improvements
- Responsible for bi-weekly payroll for union employees, while adhering to the collective agreement.
- Plans and Schedule inbounds of Indirect materials with Suppliers based on Production Plans
- Manages directly with the defined supplier the delivery of materials: this includes creating, sending, confirming, receiving, investigating errors and discrepancies on invoice lines, and handling all exceptions / issues in those operations, including claims management.
- Define the stock policy and management approach to be applied to each material considering the site constraints
- Manages the satellite Warehouses (Third Party Storage) and schedules all material movements (inbounds and outbounds)
- Provide direction to the Buyer to ensure the facility maintains an efficient inventory level to meet requirements, validate materials usage transactions and associated variances
- Responsible for material management, ACTs as Compliance Champion for internal and legal requirements and Audits.
- Responsible for Fleet Management across the site and maintaining relationship with the OEM.

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