Sr. Manager Warehousing
Vertiv
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Job summary
Vertiv is seeking a Senior Manager – Warehouse Operations to provide strategic and operational leadership for warehouse activities across the Pelzer Integrated Solutions Campus, coordinating multiple facilities within an Oracle ERP environment.
This role ensures safe, efficient, and standardized material flow from receiving to customer shipment while maintaining inventory integrity and ERP transaction accuracy.
Qualifications
- 6–8 years of progressive leadership experience in warehouse operations within a manufacturing environment.
- Experience leading warehouse teams and supporting multi-site or multi-functional operations.
- Strong knowledge of warehouse management, inventory control, material flow, shipping, receiving, and logistics.
- Experience working with Oracle ERP or comparable enterprise warehouse management systems.
- Proven ability to lead teams, drive operational improvements, and implement standardized warehouse processes.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills in fast-paced manufacturing.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic leadership for all warehouse operations across the campus.
- Lead, coach, and develop Warehouse Managers and leadership teams.
- Develop and implement standardized warehouse processes, KPIs, and best practices.
- Oversee receiving, inventory control, material handling, production support, and shipping.
- Ensure ERP transactions are compliant with Oracle ERP processes.
- Drive continuous improvement and waste reduction across operations.
- Champion safety culture and regulatory compliance.
- Foster accountability and staff development across warehouse teams.
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Job description
The Senior Manager – Warehouse Operations provides strategic and operational leadership for all warehouse operations across the Pelzer Integrated Solutions Campus, supporting multiple manufacturing facilities operating within an integrated Oracle ERP environment. This role is responsible for developing and executing warehouse strategies that ensure the safe, efficient, and standardized flow of materials from receiving through production support to customer shipment while maintaining inventory accuracy, ERP transaction integrity, operational excellence, and customer service.
The Senior Manager – Warehouse Operations provides strategic and operational leadership for all warehouse operations across the Pelzer Integrated Solutions Campus, supporting multiple manufacturing facilities operating within an integrated Oracle ERP environment. This role is responsible for developing and executing warehouse strategies that ensure the safe, efficient, and standardized flow of materials from receiving through production support to customer shipment while maintaining inventory accuracy, ERP transaction integrity, operational excellence, and customer service.
Reporting through this position are the Warehouse Managers responsible for each manufacturing facility, providing a consistent leadership structure, operational governance, and standardized warehouse processes across the campus. The Senior Manager partners closely with Manufacturing, Planning, Procurement, Logistics, Engineering, Quality, Finance, and Program Management to ensure warehouse execution supports production schedules, customer commitments, and revenue recognition.
This position plays a critical role in driving warehouse standardization, Oracle ERP compliance, inventory accuracy, operational efficiency, and continuous improvement while ensuring the warehouse organization is scalable to support the continued growth of the Pelzer campus.
- Provide strategic leadership and direction for all warehouse operations across the Pelzer Integrated Solutions Campus.
- Lead, coach, and develop Warehouse Managers and warehouse leadership teams while establishing clear accountability and performance expectations.
- Develop and implement standardized warehouse processes, KPIs, and best practices across all manufacturing facilities.
- Build a scalable warehouse organization capable of supporting continued operational growth.
- Oversee all warehouse functions including Receiving, Inventory Control, Material Handling, Production Support, Finished Goods, Shipping, Internal Logistics, and Warehouse Operations.
- Ensure safe, efficient, and accurate movement of materials between warehouse and production operations.
- Optimize warehouse layouts, storage strategies, dock utilization, and internal material flow.
- Lead warehouse capacity planning to support expanding production requirements.
- Ensure all warehouse transactions are executed accurately and in compliance with Oracle ERP processes.
- Drive compliance for receiving, inventory transactions, warehouse transfers, work order issues, shipping transactions, and inventory controls.
- Maintain high levels of inventory integrity to support MRP planning, production execution, customer delivery, and financial reporting.
- Support continuous improvement of warehouse processes through effective ERP utilization.
- Lead inventory accuracy initiatives through cycle counting, physical inventories, reconciliation, and inventory governance.
- Ensure compliance with SOX controls, audit requirements, and corporate inventory policies.
- Reduce inventory discrepancies through disciplined warehouse execution and transaction accuracy.
- Oversee inbound receiving, outbound shipping, staging, and warehouse logistics activities.
- Coordinate with transportation providers and internal stakeholders to ensure on-time customer deliveries.
- Improve warehouse throughput, dock scheduling, and shipment execution while minimizing operational delays.
- Lead Lean Manufacturing, 5S, warehouse optimization, and continuous improvement initiatives across all warehouse operations.
- Identify opportunities to improve productivity, eliminate waste, optimize labor utilization, and reduce operating costs.
- Utilize warehouse performance metrics and KPIs to drive operational excellence.
- Champion a world-class safety culture across all warehouse operations.
- Ensure compliance with OSHA regulations, forklift safety, warehouse standards, and environmental requirements.
- Drive compliance with Vertiv operational standards and warehouse governance.
- Build, develop, and mentor high-performing warehouse leadership teams.
- Foster a culture of accountability, teamwork, customer focus, operational discipline, and continuous improvement.
- Lead succession planning, employee development, and workforce engagement across the warehouse organization.
- 6–8 years of progressive leadership experience in warehouse operations within a manufacturing environment.
- Demonstrated experience leading warehouse teams and supporting multi-site or multi-functional warehouse operations.
- Strong knowledge of warehouse management, inventory control, material flow, shipping, receiving, and logistics coordination.
- Experience working within Oracle ERP or comparable enterprise warehouse management systems.
- Proven ability to lead teams, drive operational improvements, and implement standardized warehouse processes.
- Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills with the ability to make sound operational decisions in a fast-paced manufacturing environment.
- Experience supporting high-volume manufacturing operations across multiple facilities.
- Working knowledge of Oracle ERP, warehouse management systems, inventory governance, and operational KPI management.
- Experience leading Lean Manufacturing, 5S, Continuous Improvement, or Operational Excellence initiatives.
- Excellent leadership, communication, coaching, and stakeholder management skills with the ability to influence cross-functional teams.
The successful candidate will embrace Vertiv’s Core Principals & Behaviors to help execute our Strategic Priorities.
Safety. Integrity. Respect. Teamwork. Inclusion.
- High-Performance Culture
- Customer Focus
- Operational Excellence
- Innovation
- Financial Strength
- Own it
- Act with urgency
- Foster a customer-first mindset
- Think big and execute
- Lead by example
- Drive continuous improvement
- Learn and seek out development
- Promote transparent & open communication
Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) brings together hardware, software, analytics and ongoing services to enable its customers’ vital applications to run continuously perform optimally and grow with their business needs. Vertiv solves the most important challenges facing today’s data centers, communication networks and commercial and industrial facilities with a portfolio of power, cooling and IT infrastructure solutions and services that extend from the cloud to the edge of the network. Headquartered in Westerville, Ohio, USA, Vertiv employs around 34,000 people and does business in more than 130 countries. Visit Vertiv.com to learn more.
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Vertiv is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. We promote equal opportunities for all with respect to hiring, terms of employment, mobility, training, compensation, and occupational health, without discrimination as to age, race, color, religion, creed, sex, pregnancy status (including childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity / expression (including transgender status or sexual stereotypes), genetic information, citizenship status, national origin, protected veteran status, political affiliation, or disability. If you have a disability and are having difficulty accessing or using this website to apply for a position, you can request help by sending an email to help.join@vertiv.com.
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