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Lead More Good to Life—One Team at a TimeAt Meijer, our Distribution Managers play a key role in shaping how our distribution facilities operate. You'll lead teams and develop leaders while overseeing critical areas including shipping, receiving, inventory, and sanitation in order to expedite merchandise through the facility in a productive and cost effective manner.
This position is responsible for delivery and implementation of processes that will allow the business to meet organizational and operational objectives. Ensures compliance with safe work practices and fosters a safe work environment for all team members.
This is a bench leadership role, which means you'll join Meijer in a full-time position focused on learning our business, culture, and operations. Through hands-on training and development, you'll build the skills and experience needed to lead at the manager level. Once training is complete, you'll transition into an Operations Manager role with direct leadership responsibility.
What You'll be Doing:
- Hires, leads, directs, and supervises 40+ team members in day-to-day distribution operations.
- Trains, develops and coaches supervisors to achieve desired business results while also providing career development plans and growth opportunities.
- Hold leadership team members accountable for established goals and financial metrics as well as performance of their teams.
- Review options for capital projects and determine specific actions for which projects are moved forward. Own capital project from start to finish as assigned.
- Monitors and analyzes costs to ensure building is meeting budgetary goals. Makes sound business decisions that drive the efficiency of the building while meeting cost.
- Create a positive work environment though real-time observation and specific, constructive and actionable feedback. Use team member survey results to develop area specific action items to drive engagement and positive change in the facility.
- Promotes a team environment that values, encourages and supports differences.
- Creates ways of working that actively leverage the different experiences, styles, backgrounds and perspectives of both their team and others.
- Manage effective and accurate inventory control methods to ensure correct shipments to stores and the ability to meet delivery times.
- Identify areas for improvement within the facility, assess possible risks/rewards and develops the plan to implement the change.
- Responsible for productivity and breaking down individual goals by shift, area and department.
- Accountable for shift safety, selection/inventory/manifest accuracy, production and shift performance, load quality, scheduling assignments, sanitation and training.
- This job profile is not meant to be all inclusive of the responsibilities of this position; may perform other duties as assigned or required.
What You Bring with You (Qualifications):
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain or Operations Management preferred ~OR~ equivalent work experience.
- 3 Years Management experience in distribution, warehousing or supply chain required.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications is required.
- Ability to use both verbal and written communication clearly and effectively.
- Operational knowledge to identify trends and changes to the business to adjust accordingly.
- Ability to plan, organize and manage multiple projects and set priorities.
- Ability to benchmark, report, and summarize key metrics at a high level while accounting for root causes to performance.
- Proven track record of mentoring and developing direct reports.
- Working knowledge to meet compliance requirements of Federal and State regulatory guidelines.
- Ability to read, analyze and interpret policies and contract.
Skills Required
- Bachelor’s degree in Supply Chain or Operations Management, or equivalent work experience
- Three years of management experience in distribution, warehousing, or supply chain
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications
- Clear and effective verbal and written communication skills
- Operational knowledge to identify business trends and changes
- Ability to plan, organize, manage multiple projects, and set priorities
- Ability to benchmark, report, and summarize key metrics while identifying root causes
- Proven track record of mentoring and developing direct reports
- Working knowledge of federal and state regulatory compliance requirements
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret policies and contracts
Meijer Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Meijer and has not been reviewed or approved by Meijer.
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is described as a meaningful part of the total package, with medical, dental, and vision options and additional supplemental coverage. The availability of wellness programming and online doctor visits further strengthens the health offering.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are positioned as solid, including 401(k) access and Roth 401(k) options that some find valuable. Union-negotiated structures are also associated with above-average pay and benefits in certain service roles.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time-off benefits are a recurring bright spot, including paid time off, vacation time, and holiday pay that can accumulate over time. Paid parental leave is also part of the package, supporting work-life needs alongside PTO.
Meijer Insights
What We Do
It takes guts to start a business during the Great Depression. And it takes vision to keep it going. Our founder, Hendrik Meijer, opened Thrifty Acres in 1934. Almost thirty years later, his son, Fred, pioneered the world’s first ever supercenter – setting the table for who we are today: a multi-billion-dollar household name in retail. Of course, we’re not done. Not by a long shot. We recently launched the nation’s largest grocery home-delivery service – reinventing the business of grocery shopping … again. A lot has changed over the years, except for one thing; we’re still family owned. And that sense of family runs deep in everything we do. It’s the difference between selling a product and serving a community, and it’s the reason we’ve given back over $30 million to local food pantries in the last ten years. So, if you appreciate the pioneering spirit of Meijer, we’d like to connect with you. Because the bigger our family, the better









