1. Maintain a Safe Working Environment
- Maintain a safe warehouse environment. Ensure workers’ physical and mental well-being is a top priority
- Collaborate with HSE team to ensure compliance with all laws, regulations and safety standards
- Proactively identify and eliminate safety hazards
- Take thorough and rapid corrective action to address any safety incidents
2. Drive Operational Performance, improve buyer experience
- Manage a team of Field Leaders (Asst. Managers, Supervisors, Team Leads) and Warehouse support staff to drive daily operations
- Establish targets and protocols to ensure daily execution is meeting the business targets related to throughput, cost, buyer and seller experience, and worker experience
- Answer for and close gaps in key metrics. Develop and execute action plans that rapidly drive daily operations to achieve expectations
- Identify opportunities for long-term improvement related to people, process, and technology. Develop and implement continuous improvement initiatives with the project team.
- Continuously deepen your understanding of the business and the activities of other teams. Build cross-functional relationships to better understand the needs of our buyers, sellers, and workers
3. Develop a Team of Field Leaders
- Train, coach & build field leadership teams; continuously improve their soft skill communication, technical, and problem-solving skills; as well as deepen their understanding of the business
- Provide effective feedback to field leaders and warehouse staff; hold underperformers accountable, and recognize strong performers
- Ensure workers and field leaders are engaged: 1) they know their role and what success looks like 2) they have the resources to be successful, and 3) they know why their work is important
- Effectively communicate a vision and direction for the team
4. Lean leadership and People development:
- Train, coach and build the team on the job, to develop their communication skills, technical operation capabilities and leadership skills.
- Communicate effectively with the team to help them understand the business priorities. Deliver the vision, inspire them and engage people to work together towards the same goal.
- Lead by example.