Design Consultant

QVC Group; West Palm Beach (FL); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Paid time off

Health care benefits starting day 1

401(k)

Job summary

QVC Group is a live social shopping company operating fulfillment centers. This Senior Operations Manager will lead the Bethlehem, PA night shift team (4pm-1:30am), manage budgets, and mentor Operations and Area Managers to hit performance goals.

You will build leadership bench strength, drive cost control, and ensure safety and high customer service across the operation.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in fulfillment leadership or equivalent.
• Experience budgeting and labor planning to optimize costs.
• Experience reducing costs while improving service levels.

Responsibilities

• Lead a multi-shift, 7 days/week distribution operation to meet productivity, financial, and service goals.
• Develop plans to operate within approved costs and budgets.
• Improve operations with process improvements for efficiency.
• Conduct roundtable meetings across schedules and departments.
• Prepare and monitor annual department budgets; explain variances.
• Create training materials for team development.
• Standardize procedures across sites and implement corrective actions.
• Set short- and long-term site vision with focus on inventory accuracy and customer service.
• Foster safe work environment and high team engagement.

Skills

Fulfillment leadership

Budgeting

Financial management

Labor planning

Lean tools

5S

Kaizen

Team engagement

Operational excellence

Tools

Budget planning tools

Quality controls

Job description

Working at QVC Group means joining a live social shopping company with incredible teams, ambitious projects and amazing careers. QVC Group, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company with six leading retail brands - QVC®, HSN®, Ballard Designs®, Frontgate®, Garnet Hill® and Grandin Road.

Your Opportunity, Your Team

The Senior Operations Manager supports QVC and HSN, and will lead the night shift team at our Fulfillment Center, owning budget management, talent development, and the achievement of operations goals. Additional responsibilities include leading a team of Operations and Area Managers and mentoring the team to ensure performance goals are met, building positive team member relations, and building leadership bench strength within the Fulfillment Center. You will support the team on nights (4pm-1:30am), working Monday-Friday. You will report to the site General Manager.

Where You'll Work

This role is onsite and will require you to work from our Bethlehem, PA fulfillment center daily. Relocation assistance is available for this role.

What You'll Do

• Lead the operation of a multi-shift, 7 day per week, multi-department variable volume distribution operation's team, including productivity, financial, and service goals that meet the demands of our customer.
• Develop strategic plans to operate within an approved cost structure.
• Develop methods of improving specific aspects of the operation such as processes that lead to improved operational effectiveness.
• Conduct scheduled roundtable meetings, inclusive of all schedules/shifts and departments.
• Develop and submit an annual budget plan for your departments. Monitor expenses against budgeted costs and provide explanations for variances for all.
• Design and implement training programs and supporting materials for team member education and development.
• Develop procedures to meet new or changing conditions within the department. Ensure consistency among sites in quality practices. Work with necessary partners across the network to obtain agreement and implement corrective action measures.
• Set the short-term and long-term strategic vision at the site maximizing inventory accuracy with a focus on high-level customer service and operational excellence.
• Lead teams in ways to lead a safe working environment for team members and maximize team member engagement throughout the operation and ensures that site remains proper health and security environment.

What You Bring

• 8+ years experience in fulfillment leadership, improving network resources, and understand how to improve performance and service levels.
• 4+ years experience in budgeting, financial management, and labor planning and optimization.
• Experience leading projects to guide cost savings and improve service to our customers through network and process improvements with our DCs, vendors, and transportation partners.
• Subject matter expert in quality and operational controls, internal controls auditing, process improvement, organization, and operations flow design, and distribution systems.
• Experience with Lean tools and practices, including 5S, Gemba, and Kaizen.
• Excellent performance in engagement, leadership, culture behavior, cost awareness, customer orientation, loyalty, organizational talent, conceptual, initiate, and "live" change.

Our Total Rewards package includes benefits you'll love such as competitive compensation, paid time off, an employee assistance program, parental leave, paid volunteer hours, and amazing company discounts! In our US market, you can also expect health care benefits starting on day 1, 401(k), and tuition reimbursement benefits.

QVC Group is committed to inclusion and belonging for all and ensuring that our workplace provides equal employment opportunities for all team members and candidates and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. As an equal opportunity employer, QVC Group is committed to a barrier-free employment process. If you need reasonable accommodations/support throughout, please contact us at [e-mail] for assistance.

If provided, salary ranges are a general guideline only, and actual salaries will vary and are based on factors such as a candidate's qualifications, skills, experience, and geographic location as well as business and market conditions.

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