Distribution Center Director; Onsite - Forest , IA)

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As the Distribution Center Director in Forest City, you will have the opportunity to tap into your curiosity and collaborate with some of the most innovative and diverse people around the world. As the site leader for the Forest City Distribution Center, you will provide strategic and operational leadership to ensure safe, compliant, reliable, and cost-effective operations while delivering exceptional customer service.

This highly visible role requires a values-based leader who can develop high-performing teams, strengthen employee engagement, and foster a culture of accountability, inclusion, collaboration, and continuous improvement. Partnering across global logistics, planning, transportation, customer operations, quality, EHS, IT, finance, and external partners, you will drive operational excellence and support business growth. Here, you will make an impact by:

• Leading all aspects of distribution center operations, ensuring safe, compliant, reliable, and cost-effective execution of inbound, outbound, inventory control, and material flow activities.
• Driving site performance across safety, quality, service, inventory accuracy, productivity, compliance, and customer delivery metrics.
• Developing frontline and salaried leaders while fostering a culture of accountability, inclusion, engagement, talent growth, and continuous improvement.
• Partnering with planning, transportation, customer operations, quality, EHS, IT, finance, procurement, and third-party providers to ensure seamless distribution execution and service excellence.
• Managing site budgets, labor planning, staffing models, resource utilization, and productivity initiatives to achieve operational and financial objectives.
• Implementing performance governance through KPIs, operating reviews, problem-solving methodologies, and tiered accountability processes to drive sustainable results.
• Championing continuous improvement through Lean Six Sigma, automation, process optimization, and strategic business reviews that enhance service, capacity, and cost performance.

• Bachelor’s degree or higher (completed and verified prior to start) AND ten (10) years of combined experience in supply planning, warehousing, transportation, inventory/materials control, and import/export OR High School Diploma/GED (completed and verified prior to start) and fourteen (14) years of combined experience in supply planning, warehousing, transportation, inventory/materials control, and import/export
• Three (3) years of direct supervisory experience

• Master’s degree in Supply Chain, Logistics, Operations Management, Business, Engineering, or a related discipline (completed and verified prior to start).
• Experience managing operations within high-volume distribution, warehousing, manufacturing, or site leadership environments.
• Experience achieving safety, quality, service, cost, productivity, inventory accuracy, and/or compliance objectives through operational leadership and performance management.
• Experience leading, coaching, and developing salaried and/or hourly employees.
• Experience leading continuous improvement initiatives using Lean, Six Sigma, standard work, visual management, data analysis, and problem-solving methodologies.
• Experie…