Senior Project Manager, Warehouse Planning Design

Sysco is the global leader in foodservice distribution, operating a large network of distribution facilities and serving customer locations worldwide. The Senior Project Manager will manage warehouse planning and design projects, including racking, layout, capacity analysis, expansions, and new-site concepts. The role will coordinate internal teams and vendors, develop business cases, analyze warehouse capacity, and optimize planning tools and methodologies.

Responsibilities:

• Provide space requirements that factor in forecasted growth for both item mix, inventory levels, and various building attributes
• Determine proper allocation of standard slot types and design storage racking layouts across multi-temperature food distribution warehouses
• Coordinate with internal teams to help design and develop, price, plan, and execute general warehouse project types across multiple temperature zones: rack replacement, rack reconfiguration, storage expansions, new site
• Generate RFP (request for proposal) packets for submission to rack vendors, analyze returned proposals, and provide vendor selection for project
• Set tasks, priorities, and coordinate project staff to meet project targets and milestones
• Prepare materials and lead project meetings between ops-site team, internal teams, and 3rd party vendors
• Provide recommendations for development and streamlining of warehouse planning tools and methodologies
• Conduct multi-site storage sizing and capacity exercises
• Prepare materials and deliverables of space need outcomes to senior leadership
• Assist customer solutions team with space requirements and site capacity feasibility of potential customer acquisitions
• Provide well thought out results and solutions to leadership that are backed by analysis results
• Coordinate with Supply Chain Design team for movement of customer items and volume between sites and/or Greenfield/Brownfield locations
• Provide storage sizing impacts to the origin sites before and after customer moves
• Provide Construction and AutoCAD teams with minimum space requirements to develop and to price a conceptual greenfield/brownfield location and/or any resulting site expansion

Requirements:

• BS in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Warehouse Design, Industrial Engineering or equivalent or a closely related field required or equivalent combination of education and related experience
• 5+ years; preferred experience in Warehouse Design/Layout Planning, Supply Chain, Operations, Procurement or equivalent
• Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, charts, and advanced formulas) required
• Microsoft office applications
• Can quickly frame ambiguous problems and drive to tangible insight
• Synthesizes complex information from multiple sources to influence decisions
• Anticipates emerging trends and apply to warehouse planning analysis
• Utilizes critical thinking when developing solutions for scope of work
• Strong credibility and self-confidence across multiple levels of management
• Can create powerful and concise written communication
• Can effectively lead and steer interactions in large meetings
• Able to quickly build strong working relationships with internal departments
• Works productively across the enterprise and partners with others to achieve shared goals
• Can manage and improve information processes/tools to support warehouse planning applications and decisions
• Proficient in multi-tasking, prioritizing, communicating, and adapting to change
• Can scope and structure work effectively adapting to changing demands
• Able to establish executional standards and hold people accountable for delivering results
• Self-starter
• Motivated by the desire to have an impact
• Hard worker with a strong personal work ethic
• Highly committed to exceeding expectations and continuous improvement
• High energy level
• The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 20 pounds
• 50% to 75% is required
• Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States
• Masters preferred but not required
• Tableau (mapping, dashboard creations, LOD functions) preferred
• Experienced with Database querying (SQL, Python, etc.) preferred