At Niagara, we're looking for Team Members who want to be part of achieving our mission to provide our customers the highest quality most affordable bottled water.
Consider applying here, if you want to:
Work in an entrepreneurial and dynamic environment with a chance to make an impact.
Develop lasting relationships with great people.
Have the opportunity to build a satisfying career.
We offer competitive compensation and benefits packages for our Team Members.
Manager of Warehouse Systems & Operations (Warehouse Excellence)
The Manager of Warehouse Systems & Operations (Warehouse Excellence) provides regional leadership and strategic direction for warehouse execution, leadership capability, and performance improvement across the manufacturing network. This role leads and develops a team of Warehouse managers, ensures alignment between plant leadership and corporate partners, and drives sustained results across safety, quality, service, cost, inventory, asset management, and space utilization. The Manager operates through influence, governance, and structured prioritization to scale best practices, reinforce accountability, and build long-term leadership capability.
Essential Functions
Develop Warehouse managers to ensure consistent execution and leadership capability across regions.
Set strategic direction and priorities for Warehouse Excellence initiatives aligned to business objectives.
Ensure warehouse leadership training, assessments, and onboarding programs are effective, standardized, and sustained.
Manager accountability for performance outcomes across safety, quality, process time, inventory accuracy, financial performance, asset management, and space utilization.
Oversee multi-site productivity, cost-saving, and operational excellence initiatives across the network.
Partners with Plant Directors, Warehouse Managers, and corporate stakeholders to align priorities, expectations, and execution plans.
Provide escalation support and decision-making guidance for complex operational, leadership, or system challenges.
Guide change management efforts to standardize best practices and reinforce consistent execution.
Maintain executive-level understanding of warehouse systems and automation to inform strategy and governance decisions.
Ensure risks related to operations, leadership, or compliance are identified and addressed with sustainable countermeasures.
Partners to ensure engineering partnership and technical documentation governance, ensuring warehouse system requirements, SOPs, configuration standards, and change controls are created, maintained, and audit-ready.
Partners in regional Warehouse Excellence strategy and performance outcomes, while participating in cross-regional leadership and support as business priorities, network initiatives, or enterprise needs require.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
6+ years warehouse distribution management/leadership experience.
6+ years experience in position management
4+ years managing people and/or cross-functional teams.
Demonstrated success leading multi-site or regional initiatives.
Ability to influence senior leaders and operate effectively in ambiguity.
Ability to travel up to 80%.
Preferred Qualifications:
8+ years warehouse distribution management/leadership experience.
8+years experience in position management
6+ years managing people or cross-functional projects.
Experience leading regional or network-level operational excellence programs.
Experience with warehouse systems, automation, or large-scale transformations.
Competencies
This position embodies the values of Niagara's LIFE competency model, focusing on the following key drivers of success:
Lead Like an Owner
Makes safety the number one priority
Keeps alert for safety issues and escalates immediately
Effectively prioritizes tasks based on department goals
Shows respect to others and confronts interpersonal issues directly
Prioritizes resolution of customer issues effectively
Responds promptly and honors commitments to internal and external customers
InnovACT
Makes recommendations to continuously improve policies, methods, procedures, and/or products
Demonstrates adaptability by reacting appropriately to unexpected changes in situations or circumstances
Increases performance through greater efficiency
Find a Way
Seeks to develop technical knowledge through learning from other experts
Understands interdepartmental impact of individual decisions and actions
Seeks solutions rather than placing blame
Empowered to be Great
Consistently looking for ways to improve one's self through growth and development opportunities
Communicates clearly and promptly up, down, and across
Communicates effectively to manage expectations
Education
Minimum Required:
Bachelor's Degree in related fields pertaining to Warehouse, Organizational Leadership or related field experience.
Preferred:
Master's Degree in related fields pertaining to Warehouse, Organizational Leadership or related field experience.
Typical Compensation Range
Pay Rate Type: Salary
$118,937.79 - $172,459.80 / Yearly
Bonus Target: 10% Annual
Benefits
Our Total Rewards package is thoughtfully designed to support both you and your family:
Regular full-time team members are offered a comprehensive benefits package, while part-time, intern, and seasonal team members are offered a limited benefits package.
Paid Time Off for holidays, sick time, and vacation time
Paid parental and caregiver leaves
Medical, including virtual care options
Dental
Vision
401(k) with company match
Health Savings Account with company match
Flexible Spending Accounts
Expanded mental wellbeing benefits including free counseling sessions for all team members and household family members
Family Building Benefits including enhanced fertility benefits for IVF and fertility preservation plus adoption, surrogacy, and Doula reimbursements
Income protection including Life and AD&D, short and long-term disability, critical illness and an accident plan
Special discount programs including pet plans, pre-paid legal services, identity theft, car rental, airport parking, etc.
Tuition reimbursement, college savings plan and scholarship opportunities
And more!
https://careers.niagarawater.com/us/en/benefits
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Niagara Bottling, LLC has been family owned and operated since 1963. Niagara is a leading bottled water manufacturer in the U.S., supplying major retailers across the nation. With incredible growth over the past several years, the career possibilities at Niagara are endless!
Niagara's culture is fast-paced, innovative and intensely collaborative. Our Team Members are passionate, driven and always find a way to get the job done. We work hard and play hard while staying true to our family atmosphere.
From competitive benefits and retirement options to educational reimbursements, ongoing training courses and exciting career advancement opportunities, at Niagara we truly take care of our Team Members.
We hope that you consider joining our Niagara family!
Niagara Bottling LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, national origin, veteran status or disability in relation to our recruiting, hiring, and promoting practices.
