Supervisor, Distribution/warehouse

Facility Location
- Nanaimo

Work Location - Nanaimo

Posting Locations - Nanaimo

Department - Nanaimo Warehouse/Distribution

Job Function - Warehouse Operations

Employee Type - Regular Employee FT Salaried

Shift/Hours
- **About Us**:
**Proudly Canadian and Independently Owned, we are Coke Canada Bottling**

Coke Canada Bottling is Canada's premier bottling company. We are an independently owned business encompassing over 5,800 associates, more than 50 sales and distribution centres, and five production facilities nationwide.

We have a 120-year heritage of manufacturing, marketing, selling, and distributing the major branded ready-to-drink products Canadians love.

We pride ourselves on building diverse and sustainable relationships with our customers, consumers, stakeholders, and communities through our shared values: lead with an entrepreneurial mindset, collaboration, integrity, accountability, quality and safety.

Our brands include: Coca-Cola®, Diet Coke®, Coca-Cola® Zero Sugar, Sprite®, Fanta®, Barq's®, NESTEA®, POWERADE®, Minute Maid®, DASANI® and vitaminwater®; and our partner brands: Canada Dry®, Monster Energy®, and A&W®.

**About This Opportunity**:
The Supervisor, Distribution and Warehouse is responsible for the management of Coke Canada drivers and warehouse employees. They ensure the products are properly received, stored, and effectively distributed to our customers. The Supervisor works as a coach and mentor to their team. To succeed in this position, the supervisor must be capable of planning the workload, motivating their team, and offering great customer service.

**Responsibilities**:

- Supervising a team of 20 distribution and warehouse employees, while respecting budgetary constraints
- Maintaining a safe work environment to enforce health and safety policies and regulations in the workplace
- Staff, train, coach, evaluate and develop team members
- Overseeing the storage, as well as the shipping and receiving of goods
- Ensure adherence to delivery standards, efficiencies and regulatory requirements
- Manages drivers' delivery schedule and hours worked
- Establish and maintain positive customer relationships, resolving customer issues
- Serve as liaison between sales, distribution and warehouse to maintain efficient communbication between functions
- Manage and audit team member's timekeeping
- Manage within labor and OPEX budget

**Qualifications**:

- Post secondary education in a related field or experience deemed equivalent
- Prior experience in distribution, retail, or warehouse required. Beverage industry is preferred.
- 1+ years experience in consumer products/direct store delivery required
- 2+ years experience of supervisory experience required
- Ability to make sound decisions and recommendations based on analytical evalutations
- Ability to provide leadership, motiviation, and training for development of the distribution team
- Ability to cultivate, manage and foster a diverse team of employees
- Ability to initiate activities and perform duties without direct supervison
- Possess excellent organization and time-management skills
- Be familiar with department of transportation regulations
- Be a leader, a good communicator, and a convener
- Possess excellent organization and time-management skills
- Be familiar with Office and SAP computer tools
- Experience managing in a unionized environment is preferred

**Important**:
All offers of employment at Coca-Cola Canada Bottling Limited (“Coke Canada Bottling”) are conditional upon a successful background clearance obtained through our contracted third-party vendor. The standard clearance requirements depend on the position and may include some or all of the following: criminal clearance, employment verification, education verification and drivers abstract review. Please advise the Talent Acquisition team if you have any questions or concerns in regards to this once you are contacted for further consideration.