Company Overview:
Growve is a leading health and wellness company specializing in acquiring, operating, and growing world-class brands within the active nutrition, dietary supplement, and beauty verticals. Our portfolio includes 16+ brands and thousands of unique products.
Position Title: Director of Warehouse Operations
Position Overview:
In this role, the Director of Warehouse Operations is responsible for leading all warehouse staffing, processes, systems, facilities, equipment, inventory practices, and execution across NutraSelf’s warehouse operations. This role ensures timely and accurate receiving, order picking, cycle counting, inventory accuracy, warehouse layout and organization, shipping, and efficient material flow. The Director will partner closely with Planning, Production, Supply Chain, Customer Service, Sales, and Logistics teams to ensure receiving is completed timely and accurately, production jobs are staged and ready when needed, customer orders are fulfilled accurately and on time, inventories are optimized based on frequency of use, and warehouse performance is measured and improved through clear KPIs and continuous improvement practices.
Objectives & Responsibilities:
- Lead, mentor, train, develop, and motivate all warehouse personnel to build an efficient, highly functioning team that complies with company policies, regulations, SOPs, safety requirements, and cGMP expectations
- Create a culture of safety, teamwork, respect, urgency, consistency, accountability, and effective communication within the warehouse and across the facility.
- Manage daily warehouse operations to develop and implement best-in-class warehouse solutions, including timely and accurate receiving, put-away, order picking, replenishment, staging, loading, warehouse organization, and inventory control activities.
- Partner closely with Planning and Production teams to ensure Production always has jobs ready, including materials staged, picked, verified, and available when needed to prevent downtime and schedule disruption.
- Oversee cycle counting, inventory adjustments, investigation of discrepancies, root cause analysis, lot control, FEFO practices, short-dated product management, damaged inventory handling, and inventory accuracy reporting.
- Organize inventories based on frequency of use, production requirements, storage constraints, material flow, and point-of-use needs to improve warehouse efficiency, reduce travel time, and support timely execution.
- Ensure customer orders are picked, packed, staged, and shipped accurately and on time while meeting customer shipping deadlines, routing guide requirements, and internal service expectations.
- Develop, implement, and manage warehouse objectives, initiatives, KPIs, strategies, and routines that measure safety, receiving accuracy and timeliness, order picking accuracy, inventory accuracy, cycle count performance, productivity, on-time staging, space utilization, and overall warehouse efficiency. Help teams set and attain measurable goals aligned with company priorities.
- Use daily analysis and operational reviews to identify issues, assess root causes, resolve problems, coach teams, celebrate successes, and drive measurable continuous improvement.
- Manage and improve warehouse processes, standard work, training, and cross-functional communication to increase accuracy, throughput, productivity, and service levels.
- Manage the company’s Warehouse Management System (WMS) and support effective system usage, data integrity, troubleshooting, process discipline, and continuous improvement opportunities.
- Coordinate with Supply Chain, Logistics, Customer Service, and Sales teams to prioritize inbound and outbound needs, provide order status information, support special requests, and maintain seamless execution across operations.
- Monitor warehouse expenses and identify opportunities to control costs, improve labor utilization, optimize storage, reduce waste, and support budget development and management.
- Comply with all applicable federal and state regulations, company policies, SOPs, inventory procedures, safety standards, and quality requirements. Monitor forklift certification and safe operating practices.
- Support hands-on warehouse execution when needed and assume additional responsibilities as assigned.
Skills & Qualifications:
- Minimum five (5) years of experience in warehouse operations, inventory control, and people leadership in a manufacturing, distribution, or consumer products environment required.
- Experience managing timely and accurate receiving, order picking, cycle counting, inventory accuracy, warehouse organization, and production support workflows required.
- Strong background managing WMS processes required; experience implementing or improving WMS functionality preferred.
- ERP systems experience required; Microsoft Office experience, especially Excel, required.
- Bachelor’s degree in a related discipline or equivalent experience required.
- Experience in a food, beverage, dietary supplement, personal care, or consumer products environment preferred.
- Experience implementing Lean, 5S, standard work, visual management, or other continuous improvement practices preferred.
- Experience with TMS, carrier coordination, or logistics execution preferred.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to build trust, foster accountability, facilitate change, prioritize effectively, provide direction, and execute with excellence.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, process improvement, and root cause analysis skills.
- Demonstrated ability to develop, use, and manage operational KPIs to drive performance, accountability, and continuous improvement.
- Strong understanding of receiving, order picking, cycle counting, inventory accuracy, warehouse layout, material flow, production support, and warehouse efficiency practices.
- Ability to partner effectively with Planning, Production, Supply Chain, Customer Service, Sales, Logistics, vendors, and carriers.
- Strong interpersonal communication skills, including written, oral, presentation, listening, facilitation, coaching, and cross-functional follow-through.
- Flexible, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced warehouse and manufacturing environment.
Additional Details:
- Full Time with Competitive Pay
- Health Benefits Package
- DTO
- 401(k)
- Progressive Working Environment
- Located in Ogden, Utah
Notice to Recruiters — We do not work with outside recruiting agencies. Please do not solicit.
This description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of responsibilities and qualifications. The position, duties, and qualifications are subject to change at any time.