Warehouse Manager

Job Description

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It With Pride.

This role helps ensure the sustained continuity of technical mastery and line leadership in manufacturing, by leading a key line of the business (technical, system or organizational) to deliver results defined by the compelling business need of the site. You ensure that key business results are achieved and for developing others to ensure the sustained continuity of technical mastery on the manufacturing line. Using a systematic approach, you use strategic thinking skills to ensure results are sustained over the long term.

How you will contribute

In your likely first managerial role, you will ensure that Mondelēz International’s safety, quality, cost, delivery, sustainability and morale targets are achieved for the lines for which you are responsible by breaking down section targets into line and unit targets and ensuring that employees understand their individual performance goals related to the overall targets. In this role, you will also develop budgets and be responsible for costs control management, governance and compliance, loss elimination and workforce planning, including recruitment, retention, development, succession planning, and the identification of high potential team members. Without you, we would not be able to deliver high-quality snacks to our customers.

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:

- Autonomous maintenance (AM) Step 4 systems and progressive maintenance (PM) Step 3 systems
- Maintaining equipment at basic conditions independently, including the execution of AM & PM (break-down maintenance, planned maintenance) standards on dedicated equipment
- Total productive maintenance and Six Sigma including qualification of AM steps 5-6, and PM step 3
- Leading line teams
- Handling challenging interpersonal situations tactfully
- Influencing people in a union environment
- Communicating effectively verbally and in writing and a good attention to detail

More about this role
- Provide effective leadership for the efficient and cost-effective operation of the warehouse including effective management of staff, resources, shipping and receiving, inventory management and transportation scheduling.
- Directly responsible for the supervision, training and development of shipping staff to ensure that work is completed safely and efficiently.
- Maintain a safe working environment as top priority while communicating and addressing safety concerns in a timely manner.
- Promote and enhance positive employee relations in a Union setting, communicate and engage with team to promote high levels of employee involvement, engagement and teamwork.
- Maintain inventory and FIFO adherence to minimize inventory discrepancies while preventing out of stock and ensure inventory accuracy and integrity.
- Daily scheduling of carriers through established carriers and channels, coordinate the daily transportation requirements to ensure compliance with outbound schedules, quality services, product quality integrity, proper claims and timely deliveries.
- Ensure the effective utilization and scheduling of people, equipment and resources to optimize efficiencies including effective trailer utilization and pallet inventory.
- Drive and implement efficiencies to effectively reduce, labor and overtime costs as well as shipping and transportation costs.
- Enforce housekeeping standards in the warehouse to ensure compliance to quality, food safety and environmental policies.
- Ensure the security of products, materials and the building including risk management and loss prevention.
- Provide frequent communication, feedback and information flow to ensure customer delivery requirements are met.
- Other responsibilities as assigned.

What you will bring to the table:

- 4 years Supervisory experience related to Warehousing or Distribution operations
- Post-secondary education from college or university is required
- Strong knowledge of Warehouse Management Systems (WMS) and inventory management preferably SAP systems
- Strong communication, problem solving and critical thinking skills required

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

With several brands that are among consumer favourites, including Cadbury, OREO, Christie and Maynards, we are one of the largest snack companies in Canada. Many of our iconic brands are ranked first, second or third in their categories, and our manufacturers and pastry chefs have an enviable mission to create and manufacture chocolate, cookies, crackers and candy in our iconic factories and locations across Ontario. A company with many ambitious growth targets, we have invested close to $250 million in our Ontario plants in recent years alone; We run marketing campaigns promoting innovative products such as Cadbury Dark Milk tablets and OREO Birthda