Vice President of Operations

Saval Foodservice; Wesley Grove (MD); Sur place; USD 162 000 - 198 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Bonus opportunities

401K + Matching

Health Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Employee Discounts

Paid Time Off

Referral Program

Employee Assistance Program

Résumé du poste

Saval Foodservice is seeking a senior operations leader to oversee warehouse operations, safety, service, productivity, inventory integrity, and cost control across receiving, putaway, replenishment, order selection, loading, and sanitation.

The role directs managers and supervisors, builds KPIs, and partners with IT to advance throughput, scanning, putaway, replenishment, and automation as the company transitions to a new facility planned for 2027.

Qualifications

• A relevant bachelor's degree is valued, but demonstrated operating leadership and results matter most.

Responsabilités

• Lead receiving, putaway, replenishment, order selection, loading, inventory control, sanitation, returns, will call, and offsite produce operations.
• Build management routines, KPIs, standards, and accountability to improve safety, accuracy, service, productivity, labor performance, and cost.
• Develop managers and supervisors across shifts and sites, build succession depth, and create an accountable, high-performing organization.
• Own warehouse error-rate performance and inventory integrity, including receiving, rotation, cycle counts, catch-weight reconciliation, shorts, mispicks, returns, and warehouse credits.
• Partner with our Chief Digital Officer and IT team to advance throughput capabilities, scanning, directed putaway, replenishment, slotting, picking, shipping, reporting, and automation.
• Help define operating model requirements for the new facility while leading current capacity, equipment, layout, and capital decisions.
• Own the warehouse operating budget and drive disciplined management of labor, overtime, inventory loss, equipment investments, and controllable expenses.

Connaissances

Leadership

Operations management

Safety

Inventory accuracy

People development

Formation

Bachelor's degree

Description du poste

As a member of Saval's senior leadership team, you'll have executive responsibility for safety, service, productivity, inventory integrity, people, and operating costs across warehouse operations.

You'll lead receiving, putaway, replenishment, order selection, loading, inventory control, sanitation, returns, will call, material handling, offsite produce operations, and surplus storage.

Your priorities will include:

• Operational Performance: Build the management routines, KPIs, standards, and accountability needed to improve safety, accuracy, service, productivity, labor performance, and cost.
• People & Leadership: Develop managers and supervisors across shifts and sites, build succession depth, and create an accountable, high-performing organization.
• Safety & Food Safety: Champion workplace safety and ensure compliance with OSHA/MOSH, food safety, sanitation, storage, handling, and traceability requirements.
• Inventory & Accuracy: Own warehouse error-rate performance and inventory integrity, including receiving, rotation, cycle counts, catch-weight reconciliation, shorts, mispicks, returns, and warehouse credits.
• Systems & Continuous Improvement: Partner with our Chief Digital Officer and IT team to advance throughput capabilities, scanning, directed putaway, replenishment, slotting, picking, shipping, reporting, and automation.
• Capacity, Facilities & Capital: Help define the operating model and requirements for our new facility while leading current capacity, equipment, layout, and capital decisions.
• Financial Performance: Own the warehouse operating budget and drive disciplined management of labor, overtime, inventory loss, equipment investments, and controllable expenses.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner with Transportation, Purchasing, Sales, Food Safety, HR, Finance, IT, Production, and executive leadership.
  

This is not a desk-only executive position. We want a leader equally comfortable on the warehouse floor, developing managers, analyzing operating performance, evaluating technology, and helping the executive team make long-term growth decisions.

A Rare Opportunity to Build the Future Operation

The timing of this role matters.

With our new facility targeted for December 2027, the VP of Operations will have the opportunity to influence a major operational transition rather than simply inherit and maintain the status quo.

You'll help translate decades of operating knowledge into the next generation of Saval's distribution platform—considering workflow, material movement, technology, equipment, staffing, management structure, capacity, and customer-service continuity.

You'll also help develop the transition and move strategy necessary to consolidate major parts of our business while maintaining high service levels to our customers.

For an operations leader who enjoys building as much as running, this is a significant opportunity.

Why Saval Foodservice?

While Saval does big business, the feel of working for Saval is intentionally small. As an independent company with experienced and accessible management, we’re able to make improvements, address issues, and update systems quickly and efficiently. As an employee of Saval, you will help us deliver on our promise of exceptional service to our restaurant and hospitality customers.

Corporate Social Responsibility

At Saval, we believe that we have a responsibility to give back and support our local community through philanthropic initiatives and partnerships with local nonprofits and trade organizations.

In 2020 alone, Saval Foodservice worked to distribute and donate over 15,000 boxes of food goods in partnership with Johns Hopkins.

Our operations team is led by Senior Vice President Gary Peisach, who is a sitting board member of Meals on Wheels of Central Maryland, a non-profit that tackles feeding impoverished and elderly clients in the Baltimore region.

One of our most successful Saval Cares Initiatives is our annual charity golf tournament that has raised over $350,000 for the Children’s Cancer Foundation since its inception over 19 years ago.

We’re a proud allied member of the Restaurant Association of Maryland, the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington, UniPro Buying Group, and the International Association of Foodservice Distributors.

The Benefits of Working for Saval Foodservice

We want our employees to feel they can grow with us. Many companies claim their benefits are "comprehensive", but we’ve taken a whole-human and whole-company approach to employee benefits.

Our Employee Assistance Program is robust and offers a variety of support services like Mental Health Counseling, Legal Advice, Travel Assistance and more.

Take control of your health with our robust options for health, dental and vision insurance, or create a custom plan with additional AFLAC or FSA benefits.

Full Time

Monday-Friday

qualifications:

• A relevant bachelor's degree is valued, but demonstrated operating leadership and results matter most.

experience:

• Who We're Looking For
• Our strongest candidates will bring substantial leadership experience in broadline foodservice, grocery, cold-chain, or another high-volume, multi-temperature distribution environment.
• You understand the realities of the business: overnight selection, inbound constraints, cold-chain requirements, labor management, inventory accuracy, catch-weight products, warehouse errors, service pressure, equipment, and capacity limitations.

skills:

How You'll Be Measured

Success will be defined by measurable improvement in employee safety, warehouse and produce accuracy, inventory integrity, productivity, labor efficiency, overtime, inventory loss, service performance, successful facility transition, and management bench strength.

Ultimately, we want you to build an operation that is safer, more accurate, more predictable, more scalable, and better led—and successfully position Saval for its next generation of growth.

compensation:

$180,000 per year, plus bonus opportunities.

401K +Matching

Health Insurance

Vision Insurance

Life Insurance

Employee Discounts

Paid Time Off

Referral Program

Employee Assistance Program

Since 1932, Saval Foodservice has been serving Mid-Atlantic restaurants from Philadelphia to Roanoke.

We are the largest family-owned, independent broadline foodservice distributor headquartered in the Washington D.C., Maryland, and Virginia areas.

Contact

P.O. Box 8630
6740 Dorsey Road
Elkridge, MD 21075