Logistics Manager

At Emmi Roth, we’re passionate about creating exceptional cheeses. As a leader in the specialty cheese industry, we blend traditional craftsmanship with innovation. Our commitment to local sourcing and quality makes us a trusted brand in the food industry.

Joining Emmi Roth means becoming part of a team that values creativity, collaboration, and a shared dedication to excellence. You’ll have the opportunity to work with some of the finest cheeses in the world while contributing to a company that prides itself on both heritage and progress. If you're passionate about food, craftsmanship, and making an impact, we’d love for you to be a part of our journey!

The Logistics Manager reports to the Director of Logistics and provides leadership and process oversight for a three-shift refrigerated distribution operation responsible for the safe, accurate, and cost-effective movement, storage, and shipment of finished goods, ingredients, packaging, and related materials. This role supports warehouse execution, Production support, inventory integrity, cold-chain compliance, food safety, team development, continuous improvement, capacity readiness, cost control, and daily operational performance.

This position partners closely with transportation operations and supports DOT compliance, fleet oversight, and related transportation initiatives. DOT compliance and fleet management experience are preferred. This position works on-site at the Stoughton facility daily, maintains visibility across all shifts, and may occasionally work outside normal business hours to support alignment and issue resolution.

• Maintain safety as the top operational priority by reinforcing safe work practices, compliance, risk awareness, and accountability.
• Provide leadership, coaching, and performance management for supervisors, leads, warehouse team members, and logistics support roles across three shifts.
• Oversee staffing, routines, and processes for receiving, replenishment, picking, staging, loading, shipping, returns, rework support, and material movement.
• Ensure Warehouse processes support daily Production needs through material availability, staging flow, communication, escalation, and follow-through.
• Oversee warehouse and material handling processes to protect product integrity, temperature control, food safety, quality, traceability, and compliance.
• Oversee shipment coordination, including appointments, load readiness, pickup and delivery follow-up, escalation, claims support, service recovery, and documentation.
• Monitor KPIs for safety, food safety, temperature compliance, inventory accuracy, service, labor productivity, trailer utilization, claims, damages, and customer complaints.
• Govern inventory control, including cycle counts, lot control, FEFO rotation, holds, damages, losses, adjustments, and root-cause corrective actions.
• Partner with Quality and Food Safety to maintain audit readiness, sanitary transportation processes, traceability, trailer inspections, seal control, cold-chain monitoring, and corrective actions.
• Oversee operating routines that align shifts on priorities, staffing, service risks, inventory issues, equipment needs, safety concerns, improvement actions, and handoffs.
• Manage staffing, labor standards, overtime control, scheduling, training, attendance, performance coaching, succession planning, engagement, and operating budget support.
• Lead continuous improvement using data, root-cause analysis, standard work, process mapping, and scenario planning to improve safety, service, quality, cost control, and capacity readiness.
• Ensure effective use of ERP, WMS, reporting tools, temperature monitoring, and related technologies to improve visibility, traceability, and decision-making.
• Facilitate issue resolution with Operations, Planning, Procurement, Customer Service, Sales, Finance, Maintenance, Quality, and Food Safety.
• Reinforce a culture of safety, food safety, accountability, urgency, respect, continuous improvement, and ownership.

• Education, experience, leadership, technical skills, certifications, and industry knowledge required for success.
• Bachelor's degree in…