Careers

Overview: This role takes lead on warehousing and fulfillment and distribution center engagements. You’ll apply your distribution/logistics/warehousing and project management experience to partner with clients and implement projects ranging from site capacity, quality, and efficiency improvements to new automated greenfield start-ups.

What can you expect?

• Help clients build and transform their logistics and distribution networks
• Be an early employee at a boutique consulting firm. Let’s be open – This is a *very* small company with big goals. Small company settings can be challenging but this is an opportunity to work with great people and have a huge impact with (and on!) the company.
• A culture focused on integrity, respect for people, competence, excellence, and humor
• Compensation with base of 120k – 160k depending on experience, plus bonus opportunity
• Opportunity to help develop and grow with great clients
• Collaboration with teammates and clients to help achieve personal, project, and organizational goals
• Engaging, varied, and challenging work
• Project scope and pay are commensurate with experience

What do we expect?

Project Management (“How”):

• Develop and coordination of project organizations and allocation of project resources, and ensuring proper coverage
• Maintenance of the project plan, including regular updates on progress
• Creation and maintenance of project documentation
• Execute project change control, risk management, and other controls
• Facilitate project meetings, including coordinating schedules, development of slide decks, presentation of material, and leading discussions
• Participation in a variety of meetings, including status, scheduling, key stakeholder, leadership, workshops, etc.
• Identify and assess potential areas of risk and define mitigation plans
• Facilitate resolution of issues and roadblocks
• Collaboration with all departments and personnel, such as technology, finance, operations, distribution, and end-users
• Working alongside clients at project sites to support project implementation

Distribution & Warehousing Expertise (“What”)

• Manage business process, facility, and systems implementations
• Understand key dependencies in inter-functional planning and execution
• Represent client operations teams to other project stakeholders
• Ensure operations requirements are integrated into overall planning
• Drive change from current to future state operations with the client’s team
• Give input on operations and facility layouts to provide solutions designed to increase efficiencies
• Assist in the facility, material handling, and systems selections and procurement
• Assess process and system designs to drive optimization

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• 5+ years of experience in managing in distribution, warehousing, and/or logistics settings
• Experience with construction project management, software project management, or preferably both 
• Consulting background in supply chain / logistics or operations
• Strong client and stakeholder management skills
• Experience managing cross-functional projects to a successful outcome
• Strong bias for self-directed learning and figuring things out
• Proven ability to think through business problems, distill information, and develop action plans
• Demonstrated problem-solving aptitude and critical thinking skills
• Willingness to travel on a regular basis with average travel of 20-40% depending on individual project requirements and lifecycle
• Strong MS Office Suite (Excel, Powerpoint, Word) user
• Eligibility to work in the US on a permanent basis without sponsorship

Pluses

• Degree in quantitative or supply-chain related field
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification