Senior PL Warehouse Manager

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Job Category:
Supply Chain

Work Location:

Hybrid

Office

Location:

Lenexa, KS, US

Job Type: Full Time

Job

At Corbion, we exist to champion preservation in all its forms, preserving food and food production, health, and our planet.

Corbion is seeking a Senior 3PL Warehouse Manager based at our Lenexa, KS office. In this role, you will be responsible for strengthening the performance, governance, and continuous improvement of the North American third-party logistics (3PL) warehouse network. The role builds strategic provider relationships and drives measurable improvement in service, cost, inventory accuracy, capacity, quality, reliability, and competitiveness. This position proactively identifies opportunities, challenges existing practices, and leads Lean and Six Sigma-based improvements with 3PL partners.

Success requires strong cross-functional leadership, data-based decision-making, and disciplined follow-through. The role also shares standards, best practices, and lessons learned with internal warehouse operations to promote consistent execution across the broader warehouse network.

Essential Functions

• 3PL Governance & Relationship Management
  • Own implementation of the Global Logistics Vendor Performance Management standard for warehouse providers, including performance measurement, KPI governance, business reviews, complaint escalation, action tracking, and follow-through.
  • Build effective relationships with 3PL leadership and operating teams while setting clear expectations for performance, accountability, responsiveness, and continuous improvement.
  • Serve as the primary operational owner for 3PL warehouse performance, coordinating internal stakeholders and escalating unresolved risks or service failures.
  • Challenge existing practices using operational data, industry knowledge, and structured problem solving to improve network competitiveness and reliability.
• SLA, KPI & Performance Management
  • Partner with Procurement, the owner of supplier contracts and SLAs, to develop and maintain strong warehouse SLAs that clearly define service expectations, KPIs, operating requirements, escalation paths, communication cadence, business continuity provisions, and service improvement plans.
  • Provide operational requirements and provider-performance insights to support contract negotiations, renewals, RFIs, RFPs, and sourcing decisions.
  • Establish monthly performance data sharing and feedback with each provider, using scorecards to review trends, gaps, risks, complaints, and agreed actions.
  • Lead quarterly business reviews covering KPI performance, complaints and corrective actions, improvement priorities, anticipated changes, capacity, risks, and future business needs.
  • Drive timely corrective and preventive actions by assigning owners and due dates, tracking progress, escalating gaps, and verifying sustainable closure.
• Warehouse Performance & Continuous Improvement
  • Monitor provider performance across safety, service, inventory accuracy, damages, storage occupancy and capacity, quality, cost, responsiveness, audits, certifications, and compliance.
  • Coordinate inventory reconciliations and periodic joint cycle counts; investigate deviations and ensure corrective actions address root causes.
  • Monitor storage occupancy against pallet projections and available capacity, escalating and mitigating gaps before service is affected.
  • Ensure complaints and damages are documented, investigated, and resolved within agreed requirements, including claims and compensation when applicable.
  • Proactively identify and lead Lean and Six Sigma improvement initiatives that reduce waste, improve flow and productivity, strengthen controls, and lower total operating cost.
  • Maintain a prioritized improvement pipeline with providers, quantify expected benefits, and track results through implementation and stabilization.
• Cost, Risk & Operational Reliability
  • Monitor warehousing costs, accessorial charges, productivity, and provider billing to identify variances, cost drivers, and savings opportunities.
  • Ensure providers maintain effective controls for safety, inventory integrity, food quality, regulatory compliance, security, business continuity, confidentiality, data protection, and subcontractors.
  • Coordinate resolution of significant disruptions and recurring failures through containment, root-cause analysis, corrective action, and prevention of recurrence.
  • Conduct site reviews and operational assessments, coordinate…