Join us and celebrate the beauty of human experience. Create for happier, healthier lives, with love for nature. Together, with kindness, humility, and a spirit of adventure, we deliver food innovations, craft inspired fragrances and develop beauty and wellbeing solutions. There’s much to learn from our 79 production sites worldwide, known for their best-in-class processes and procedures. There’s many to learn from, with high-performing leaders and caring colleagues to explore ideas and ambitions with. Every day, your energy, your personality, and your determination will shape our future, making a positive difference on billions of people. Every essence of you enriches our world. We are Givaudan. Human by nature.
As a Warehouse and Distribution Manager (m/f/d) you will lead inbound, outbound and intra-logistic logistics operations, such as transportation preparation and warehouse activities, safety performance, and logistics quality management for our site in Germany.
You will be based in Dortmund reporting directly to the Supply Chain Manager Germany. If you are someone who is passionate about leadership, guiding the operations team and creating strategy with relevant experience here is our exciting role for you.
You will:
* Strategy design and execution: you will contribute to the design of the local Operations strategy by providing input regarding Logistics plans and improvement projects, and lead local KPIs
* Function management: you will lead warehouse and distribution teams to ensure achievement of cost, productivity, accuracy and timeliness goals. Additionally you will design local SOPs and work with other departments on relevant business processes, ensuring efficient material and information flows
* Continuous Improvement: You'll motivate your teams towards improving organization, with a focus on training, documenting and standardizing work and optimizing processes. You have good knowledge about action and influence
* Leading the team: You continue to build a top working culture, motivating people to participate and demonstrate commitment. You inspire others and celebrate successes. Performance management cycles, management of absenteeism and reintegration and other people processes hold no secrets for you.
* People management: you will guide the development and promotion of identified talents within local Operations and work with HR on performance related areas
You have:
* Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management or equivalent
* 4+ years of experience in logistics in a manufacturing environment
* 1+ years of experience in people management
* Fluency in German and English
* Knowledge of material flow systems and technologies
* Proficiency in shipping and receiving regulations and protocol.
* Experience of local and international material/product safety/security norms and regulations
* Knowledge of supply chain function and processes
* Basic knowledge of production process
* Good SAP knowledge in Module MM and WM
* Lean / CI certification
Your benefits in Dortmund:
* 37.5-hour week with flexible working hours within the framework of the collective agreement for the chemical industry, incl. home office options
* 30 days holiday
* Company pension scheme
* Flat hierarchies
* A collegial, dynamic and international working environment
* Excellent training opportunities
* Leased bicycles and fresh fruit
* Free drinks (tea, coffee, water) and parking spaces
* Company restaurant
At Givaudan, you contribute to delightful taste and scent experiences that touch people’s lives.
You work within an inspiring teamwork culture – where you can thrive, collaborate and learn from other talented and passionate people across disciplines, regions and divisions.
Every essence of you enriches our world.
Diversity drives innovation and creates closer connections with our employees, customers and partners.
Givaudan embraces diversity and is committed to building an inclusive environment where everyone impacts our world.