Job description

About 8th Avenue

8th Avenue Food & Provisions is a leading manufacturer of private brand food products. The Company’s primary businesses include organic and conventional peanut and tree nut butter, dry pasta, and organic and non-GMO granola. With revenue near $1 billion, 8th Avenue is a market leader in all its product categories. The customer base is diversified across the largest food retailers, foodservice distributors, and CPG manufacturers in North America. Beyond private label, the business also operates as both an ingredients provider and co-manufacturer across its categories.

8th Avenue became a stand-alone entity in 2018 when Post Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: POST) combined and then spun off its private brands’ businesses for the purpose of driving consolidation in the private brand industry. Thomas H. Lee Partners, a leading private equity firm, invested $250 million to capitalize on the newly created business in partnership with Post.

8th Avenue’s stated mission is to grow into a $3B business focused on private brands by becoming their customers’ preferred partner in profitably growing their brands and businesses. This will involve organic growth as well as acquisitions. 8th Avenue is primarily a B-to-B business that values teamwork, transparency, accountability, and practical excellence.

8th Avenue operates ten production facilities across North America in three big categories: pasta, nut butter, and granola/muesli. The businesses carved out of Post operated as individual segments previously, but they have now been integrated to create a private brand platform of scale benefitting from the sector growth in private label food.

In the last several months, 8th Avenue has invested in talent, positioning the company for rapid growth. Scott McNair joined as CEO & President during the summer and quickly worked to establish a scalable organization model and focused on bringing in top talent.

Thomas H. Lee Partners (THL) is one of the oldest and most experienced private equity firms. THL was founded in 1974, has raised over $22 billion of equity capital, and has invested in more than 140 portfolio companies with an aggregate value of over $150 billion. THL’s website is www.thl.com.

Post Holdings, headquartered in St. Louis, is a consumer-packaged goods holding company operating in the center-of-the-store, food service, food ingredient, refrigerated, convenient nutrition, and private brand food categories. Annual revenue is near $6 billion. Post website is www.postholdings.com.

Position Summary:

The Director of logistics and warehousing will have full responsibility for the transportation, deployment, and warehousing functions across all 8th Avenue businesses. This leader will drive strategic actions to support business growth targets, and deliver excellent customer service, responsiveness, and overall cost initiatives. The leader will foster and encourage a culture of employee engagement, innovation, productivity, and positive morale. In addition, the leader must have experience in implementing top-tier warehouse operating principles, lean methodology, introducing processes, automation, technology, and techniques that add efficiency to the supply chain.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop warehousing and transportation footprint and network strategy to support business growth, customer service, and overall cost targets.
• Standardize and implement top-tier warehousing practices, systems, and capabilities across 3PLs and internal plant warehouses.
• Seamlessly connect demand, supply, and deployment planning to ensure the right product is available at the right location, right time, and right cost.
• Strengthen the flow of information and communication across the supply chain to effectively manage the “order to delivery” process.
• Resolves customer supply chain challenges through the coordination of internal and external resources including third-party suppliers and vendors.
• Lead contract negotiations with 3PLs, manage monthly performance reviews, overall space requirements, inventory accuracy, and overall system connectivity.
• Participate in S&OP/IBP process and lead the S&OE process to drive superior customer service, maximize revenue, cost savings, and cash flow benefits.
• Collaborates with sales and supply chain leadership and participants throughout the organization to share and enhance best practices.
• Serves as the subject matter expert in Logistics and warehousing operations, automation, M&A support, and post-merger integration of both business and ERP processes.
• Promotes a collaborative work environment to ensure low turnover and high levels of employee satisfaction.
• 20 - 40% Travel Required

Education and Experience Required:

• BA/BS or equivalent work experience; MBA preferred
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in Transportation, Warehousing, Planning, and Customer Service.
• Logistics, Supply Chain Leadership, Engineering or equivalent combination of both education and experience with strong business knowledge and experience required

Leadership and Behavior Skills:

• Ensures Accountability: Holding self and others accountable to meet commitments.
• Collaborates: Build partnerships with operations, planning, customer service, commercial, sales, finance, and other team members.
• Communicates Effectively: Adept with multi-mode communication across end-to-end business
• Customer Focus: Building strong customer relationships and delivering customer-centric solutions
• Manages Conflict: Handling conflict situations effectively, with a minimum of noise
• Develops talent: Attracting and developing talent to meet both their career goals and the organization’s goals
• Business Insight: Applying knowledge of business and the marketplace to advance the organization’s goals

Education and Experience Required:

• Undergraduate in Supply Chain, Business Management, Engineering, Finance, or Economics; MBA preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in the Food/CPG/B2B industry across logistics, warehousing, planning, and customer service areas.

Other Preferred Skills:

• Must be able to read, write and communicate in the English language.
• Familiarity with JD Edwards ERP system desired.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Word, Access, and PowerPoint

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $120,000.00 - $180,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus pay

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Fenton, MO 63026: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Work Location: One location

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