Director, Logistics

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Report directly to the Vice President of Supply Chain.

• Oversee the complete logistics network, including inbound farm transportation, outbound customer transportation, warehousing, cold storage, and distribution.

• Develop and implement logistics strategies that align with growth objectives, customer commitments, and the overall supply chain operating model.

• Take ownership of both short- and long-term capacity planning related to transportation, cold storage, warehousing, and distribution.

• Assess network design, lane strategies, storage capacities, and operational models.

• Manage inbound transportation from farms and suppliers as well as outbound transportation to customers and distribution centers.

• Supervise dedicated fleets and managed transportation partners, focusing on routing, scheduling, load optimization, tendering, carrier performance, claims, and special requests.

• Act as a senior escalation point for transportation disruptions.

• Ensure accountability for receiving, storage, inventory management, order fulfillment, and shipping of finished goods.

• Oversee third-party transportation, distribution, and warehousing providers through governance, contracts, performance evaluations, KPIs, and corrective action plans.

• Collaborate with site, Quality, and distribution leaders on food safety, cold-chain integrity, inventory accuracy, pallet and load quality, and shipping standards.

• Assist in facility and distribution capability readiness, systems integration, launch planning, and operational transitions.

• Create and manage logistics budgets and forecasts.

• Identify cost drivers and implement sustainable savings while maintaining safety, quality, and service standards.

• Set KPI and operating review schedules.

• Work alongside Finance and Supply Chain colleagues on forecasts, accruals, variance analyses, and logistics investment business cases.

• Enhance the integration and utilization of D365, TMS, WMS, 3PL platforms, automation, and reporting tools.

• Champion continuous improvement initiatives in transportation and distribution.

• Collaborate with IT, Operations Development, and external providers to ensure system reliability, visibility, controls, and growth readiness.

• Lead, mentor, and develop the Logistics team.

• Foster cross-functional partnerships with Farm Support, Operations, Supply Chain Planning, Customer Supply Chain, Quality, Finance, IT, and commercial teams.

• Enhance team capabilities and succession planning depth.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations, Business, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience.

• Over 10 years of progressive experience in logistics, transportation, warehousing, or distribution.

• Experience, preferably in food, beverage, consumer packaged goods (CPG), or other temperature-sensitive environments.

• Proven ability to lead a complex, multi-node logistics network.

• Experience managing third-party transportation and warehousing providers.

• Comprehensive understanding of transportation markets, carrier and fleet operations, warehousing and distribution, cold-chain requirements, and relevant regulatory considerations.

• Proficient in budget management, cost and service trade-offs analysis, and delivering measurable operational and financial enhancements.

• Familiarity with ERP and supply chain execution technologies, such as D365 or similar ERP, TMS, WMS, warehouse automation, and Power BI or Tableau.

• Capability to utilize data and sound judgment in decision-making and action planning.

• Excellent communication skills, ability to influence across functions, and strong negotiation capabilities.

• Proven experience in people leadership, coaching, and talent development.

• Availability to travel approximately 20–30% of the time.

• Bonus: experience in launching or scaling logistics capabilities, facilities, automation, or significant system integrations.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical insurance.

• Dental insurance.

• Vision insurance.

• Paid parental leave.

• 401(k) with a 3% contribution from Day 1.

• Complimentary eggs.

• Discounts for friends and family.

• Fun team SWAG.

• Opportunities for professional development.

• Flexible remote work environment.