Night Fulfillment Center Manager - Data-Driven Ops Lead

Wantable; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 95,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K plan

Employee merchandise discount

Job summary

Wantable in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is seeking a Fulfillment Center Night Shift Manager to lead overnight operations, ensure safety and accuracy, and drive performance across picking, packing, receiving, and inventory. This hands-on leadership role requires strong decision-making and the ability to manage a team on the night shift.

You will use KPIs, dashboards, and automation to optimize labor, reduce errors, and improve workflows, while partnering with HR and site leadership on staffing and

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree preferred or equivalent fulfillment leadership experience.
• Minimum 2 years of fulfillment, distribution, or warehouse leadership experience.
• Experience leading fulfillment, distribution, or warehouse operations with 50+ employees on a shift.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end overnight fulfillment execution across picking, packing, returns, receiving, and inventory activities.
• Make real-time operational decisions to protect service levels, productivity, accuracy, safety, and cost performance.
• Adjust labor, priorities, and workflow based on volume, capacity, system insights, and operational constraints.
• Lead, coach, and develop supervisors and associates to create accountability, consistency, and strong shift performance.
• Ensure associates are trained, cross-trained, and capable of executing essential fulfillment tasks accurately and safely.
• Partner with HR and site leadership on hiring, performance management, employee relations, corrective action, and terminations.
• Use KPIs, dashboards, labor planning tools, and system reporting to identify risks, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities.
• Leverage automation, AI-enabled tools, and process insights to reduce manual work, improve accuracy, and strengthen overnight execution.
• Support operational pilots, system upgrades, and process changes during overnight hours.
• Enforce safety standards and maintain a disciplined, compliant warehouse environment.
• Maintain compliance with applicable federal, state, local, and company safety and labor requirements.
• Ensure accurate shift handoffs by communicating results, risks, staffing updates, and operational priorities to day and second shift leaders.

Skills

Data-driven

Communication

Decision making

Safety compliance

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree preferred

Tools

Automation software

Dashboards

Labor planning tools

Job description

Wantable in Milwaukee, Wisconsin is seeking a Fulfillment Center Night Shift Manager to lead overnight operations, ensure safety and accuracy, and drive performance across picking, packing, receiving, and inventory. This hands-on leadership role requires strong decision-making and the ability to manage a team on the night shift.

You will use KPIs, dashboards, and automation to optimize labor, reduce errors, and improve workflows, while partnering with HR and site leadership on staffing and