**Warehouse Lead** **Your role**: As Warehouse Lead, you will be responsible for supporting Emerging Nutrition and retail warehousing needs, driving forward an Ardent Mills organizational-wide warehousing strategy. You will ensure Ardent Mills’ warehouse capabilities and capacity are sufficient for current and future planned volume. You will also drive the financial and non-financial (e.g. KPIs) performance of Ardent Mills’ warehousing network to hit internal targets. To succeed, you must be able to: - Deliver results in first-time situations by inspiring others and working to earn trust every day. - Serve others with understanding, respect, and care. - Operate with simplicity, clarity and transparency. - Deal with and drive change. - Organize, prioritize and own multiple tasks while meeting or exceeding deadlines. Above all you will be expected to carry out all your activities with reliability, integrity, compliance and in a safe, environmentally responsible, and efficient manner. **Your responsibilities**: - Work with other Supply Chain leaders to help create, manage and execute enterprise-wide warehousing strategy across core flour and Alternative Grains businesses (e.g., Pulses, Ancient Grains, Organics & Heirloom Wheats, and Retail Bakery, etc.) - Track, manage and report all key warehouse KPIs (e.g., utilization, receiving / putaway accuracy, receiving / putaway cycle time, inventory age, inventory turnover, inventory to sales ratio, order lead time, perfect order rate, back-order rate, etc.) - Work with warehouse managers and staff to manage performance on KPIs and identify, implement and leverage new technologies for WMS to drive value - Work with the logistics team within Supply Chain to manage the inter-warehouse logistics network - Track, manage and report warehouse personnel levels and performance - Work with Retail, Sales, Operations, and the broader Supply Chain function to manage the warehousing component of the S&OP; process, including forecasts around future warehouse utilization and requirements - Work with cross-functional teams (e.g., Sales, Finance, Operations, and Supply Chain) to prioritize, propose, coordinate, and implement warehousing improvements - Create business cases and propose warehouse expansion, improvement, and headcount initiatives - Identify, propose, and help implement tech enablement opportunities in warehouses to better automate and monitor / manage performance - Manage warehouse food safety status and coordinate with RQT or a third party to schedule and conduct warehouse food safety auditing at warehousing facilities - Coordinate with legal for warehouse contract evaluation and dispute mitigation **Essential skills and experience**: - Bachelor’s degree - 5+ years of warehousing management experience - Excellent analytical and organizational skills - Strong communication (both written and verbal) and presentation skills - Strong attention to detail - Understanding of food plant operations, S&OP;, and distribution practices - Have a continuous improvement mindset **Good to have**: - Experience with food manufacturing **Other Considerations**: - Ability to travel up to 10% **At Ardent Mills, everyone matters and everyone has a voice. We are committed **to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal opportunities are available to all applicants and team members and the decisions will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, national origin, aboriginality, ancestry, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, genetic information, veteran status, age, political affiliation, or any other non-merit characteristic protected by law or not. Together, celebrating our differences, we make Ardent Mills.** **Location**: Remote CO Address: 126 Remote, Denver CO, 80202 Additional Locations (if applicable): Employment Type: Full time Additional Information: COMPETITIVE COMPENSATION: BENEFITS: At Ardent Mills we offer a wide range of benefits to our team members and their eligible family members. Some of our great benefit programs you may be eligible for include: - Medical, Dental and Vision Coverage - Health and Dependent Savings Accounts - Life and Disability Programs - Voluntary Benefit Programs - Company Sponsored Wellness Programs - Retirement Savings with Company Match - Team Member and Family Assistance Program (EAP) - Paid Time Off and Paid Holidays - Employee Recognition Program with Rewards (RAVE).