Dc Warehouse Manager

Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world’s best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At NIKE, Inc. it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game.

The NIKE, Inc. Supply Chain team is the engine that propels product around the world. Supply Chain experts ensure that every year, almost a billion units of footwear, apparel and equipment arrive at the right place, at the right time. To ensure this complex job goes off without a hitch, Supply Chain teams work with a network of more than 50 distribution centers, thousands of accounts, and more than 100,000 retail stores worldwide — making the impossible happen every single day.

Primary Work Location: DC Facility at Ravenhall, Melbourne, Victoria.

Pacific’s Logistics Operations Team is responsible for delivering tailored supply chain services to all Nike internal and external customers. Our vision is to provide consistent, sustainable, and innovative solutions, activating the Nike brand within the marketplace through succinct and effective distribution of our products.

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We are looking for a warehouse leader, who has a strong understanding of the retail distribution landscape within Australia. We are looking for someone who has a people first mindset, and who employs our leadership defined principles in coaching and mentoring the present, whilst championing and developing our leaders of the future. A change advocate, who thrives on the opportunity to seek solutions through the appraisal of process and performance, with focus towards empowerment of people and leading by example. We are looking for someone who can pragmatically problem solve and can play a strategic role in developing the framework for delivering customer centric solutions within our growing logistics operations space - to support and drive our growth. We are looking for someone with an open mindset, who is a forward thinker and embraces Nike’s culture towards diversity and inclusion.

WHAT WILL YOU WORK ON?

You will help manage and run our newly built automated distribution center based in Ravenhall. Following the Nike Logistics System principles, you will work hand in hand with our 3PL partner to manage our daily warehouse and operation performance. Through your leadership, you will focus on delivering the present, whilst evolving for the future. You will be an advocate for solving problems to manifest excellence in all facets of our DC Operations team. You will play a critical leadership role, helping manage the DC deliverables within the wider logistics strategy for Pacific. With an outsourced operation through a Third-Party Logistics (3PL) network, you will help manage relationships with our service partners, ensuring capability and evolution within our DC operations, as an accelerator for Pacific’s growth strategy, you will be responsible for delivering service performances daily. You will support the workflow into the DC operations and appraise processing in line with expected volume requirements and performance against plan with a continuous improvement mindset, working closely with Nike business units as applicable. You will support our management of key operational controls, including inventory management programs, lead compliance indicators and physical security management of 3PL facilities. You will help drive a culture of continuous improvement, through facilitation of internal audits, and a mindset towards operational excellence.

WHO WILL YOU WORK WITH?

As a key teammate within our logistics operations team, you will work with a wide range of stakeholders. You will report to the DC Operations Manager - Pacific, and work closely with the wider Pacific Logistics team. You will have daily engagement with the Inventory Manager and their teams, the NLS Manager, Planning Manager, and their team.

You will work hand in hand with our 3PL partner and their teams. The engagement with them should look and feel like "One Team", a culture you will be responsible to support and drive. You will have numerous touchpoints into our wider Operations team, namely throughout our Marketplace Operations function, Technology and Supply Chain Innovation teams. You will leverage and build on our relationships with our geography partners, predominantly based in Portland, to support solution management, reporting around performance and cost, as well as driving best practice through shared learnings.

WHAT YOU BRING
- 5/10 years of experience in Logistics & Operations management, performance & costing.
- Working knowledge of 3PL distribution within Australia and New Zealand, with an ability to work across a matrix environment
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