Associate Logistics Manager

Position Overview

Join Ecolab as our Associate Logistics Manager in Fort Worth, TX. In this role you will lead your team to effectively direct and coordinate material handling activities, including processing, packaging and storage of supplies, materials and equipment at this key site. The position requires a hands-on leadership style, strong floor presence, and financial business acumen.

Gain recognition as someone with strong communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively across the network to deliver results according to plan and make key strategic business decisions. The successful leader will have opportunities to advance within Ecolab's North America Supply Chain as you demonstrate natural leadership, initiative, and a commitment to completing projects.

Location: Fort Worth, TX

Key Responsibilities

• Ensures all reports are developed to fulfill expectations, sets objectives for cross-training employees, leads the safety program, drives continuous improvement, and ensures key reports have a successor.
• Directs inventory control, warehousing, transportation, logistics planning, order processing, and customer service while ensuring operational compliance with standards, policies, and procedures, and fostering strategies to better serve customers.
• Develops direct reports, promotes 100% employee engagement, rewards productivity, leads safety initiatives, drives continuous improvement, and ensures key reports have a successor.
• Drives communication across the business, fosters close relationships with key vendors/suppliers, resolves service issues related to logistics, collaborates on network design and KPI initiatives, and reports site performance.
• Establishes and maintains clear communication with business contacts and key vendors/suppliers to avoid and resolve service issues.
• Identifies and manages redesign initiatives, capital projects, and vendor changes to improve safety, cost, service, quality, performance, and/or compliance, while championing TPM practices.
• Meets or exceeds measured standards by improving cost and service performance through activities such as inventory control, forecasting, warehousing, transportation, logistics planning, order processing, and delivery execution.
• Performs additional duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Engineering, or Transportation
• 4 years of experience in logistics, transportation, and/or warehousing environments
• 1.5 years of supervisory experience
• No immigration sponsorship available for this position

Preferred Qualifications

• MBA or Advanced Technical degree
• Previous experience within a high-SKU (500 - 1000 SKU) logistics network
• Experience using a formal ERP Warehouse Management System, preferably SAP
• Experience in managing 3rd Party Logistics Providers, including an understanding of cost models
• Experience with TPM, Lean, and/or 5S methodologies
• Demonstrated leadership, strong communication, and both tactical and strategic thinking skills

Benefits & Perks

• Salary: $96,700.00 - $145,100.00. This base salary range is complemented by eligibility for annual bonus pay based on performance.
• Benefits: Ecolab provides comprehensive and market-competitive benefits to meet the needs of our associates and their families. For more details, please click here to see our benefits.