Vice President of Operations

As a member of Saval's senior leadership team, you'll have executive responsibility for safety, service, productivity, inventory integrity, people, and operating costs across warehouse operations.

You'll lead receiving, putaway, replenishment, order selection, loading, inventory control, sanitation, returns, will call, material handling, offsite produce operations, and surplus storage.

Your priorities will include:

• Operational Performance: Build the management routines, KPIs, standards, and accountability needed to improve safety, accuracy, service, productivity, labor performance, and cost.
• People & Leadership: Develop managers and supervisors across shifts and sites, build succession depth, and create an accountable, high-performing organization.
• Safety & Food Safety: Champion workplace safety and ensure compliance with OSHA/MOSH, food safety, sanitation, storage, handling, and traceability requirements.
• Inventory & Accuracy: Own warehouse error-rate performance and inventory integrity, including receiving, rotation, cycle counts, catch-weight reconciliation, shorts, mispicks, returns, and warehouse credits.
• Systems & Continuous Improvement: Partner with our Chief Digital Officer and IT team to advance throughput capabilities, scanning, directed putaway, replenishment, slotting, picking, shipping, reporting, and automation.
• Capacity, Facilities & Capital: Help define the operating model and requirements for our new facility while leading current capacity, equipment, layout, and capital decisions.
• Financial Performance: Own the warehouse operating budget and drive disciplined management of labor, overtime, inventory loss, equipment investments, and controllable expenses.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner with Transportation, Purchasing, Sales, Food Safety, HR, Finance, IT, Production, and executive leadership.

This is not a desk-only executive position. We want a leader equally comfortable on the warehouse floor, developing managers, analyzing operating performance, evaluating technology, and helping the executive team make long-term growth decisions.

A Rare Opportunity to Build the Future Operation

The timing of this role matters.

With our new facility targeted for December 2027
, the VP of Operations will have the opportunity to influence a major operational transition rather than simply inherit and maintain the status quo.

You'll help translate decades of operating knowledge into the next generation of Saval's distribution platform—considering workflow, material movement, technology, equipment, staffing, management structure, capacity, and customer-service continuity.

You'll also help develop the transition and move strategy necessary to consolidate major parts of our business while maintaining high service levels to our customers.

For an operations leader who enjoys building as much as running
, this is a significant opportunity.

While Saval does big business, the feel of working for Saval is intentionally small. As an independent company with experienced and accessible management, we’re able to make improvements, address issues, and update systems quickly and efficiently. As an employee of Saval, you will help us deliver on our promise of exceptional service to our restaurant and hospitality customers.

At Saval, we believe that we have a responsibility to give back and support our local community through philanthropic initiatives and partnerships with local nonprofits and trade organizations.

In 2020 alone, Saval Food service worked to distribute and donate over 15,000 boxes of food goods in partnership with Johns Hopkins.

Our operations team is led by Senior Vice President Gary Peisach, who is a sitting board member of Meals on Wheels of…