Job Description:
- Pay: Based on experience starting at $33.36+
- This site manufactures petfood
Shift Schedule:
- Shift: 1st
- Schedule: Monday- Friday
- Hours: 7am- 3:30pm (flexible pending business needs)
Description of Role:
This role leads outbound logistics tasks, manages vendor relations, and oversees warehouse inventory systems like SAP, JDA, and NEXUS. Additionally, the position drives safety, quality, and cost goals while ensuring quotas are met.
What are we looking for?
Minimum Requirements:
- High school diploma, GED or equivalent education
- 2+ years of relevant warehousing or logistics related experience
- Troubleshoot inventory management systems and issues with product quality
- Ability to transfer procedures and training experiences to others (example: SOPs)
- Proficient in MS Office (Word, excel, etc.) and email.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Technical bachelor’s or associate degree
- SAP and/or Blue Yonder experience
- Demonstrated Leadership skills
- 1+ years’ experience in an outbound logistics technical support role
- Knowledge of quality systems and lean manufacturing principles
Physical Requirements:
- Can perform the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Frequent lifting/carrying (10-50 lbs) and pushing/pulling (50-300 lbs)
- Frequent bending, stooping, twisting, handling, and gripping.
- Ability to work at elevated heights, climb stairs, lean over equipment, and operate in confined spaces.
- Ability to stand and work on feet for extended periods, with shifts lasting 12 hours
- Capable of working in hot, cold and wet conditions
- Proficient in understanding, communicating, reading, and writing in English.
What will be my key responsibilities?
- Lead the execution of all outbound related tasks and assignments
- Manage vendor relations with 3PLs (warehouses, transportation, and fleet vendors).
- Lead warehouse activities related to inventory management systems (SAP, JDA, and NEXUS)
- Lead the execution of tendering outbound loads
- Leads and executes strategies that deliver Shift Safety, Quality, Quantity and Cost objectives.
- Work as a liaison between Sort, Quality, and Logistics teams to ensure all sort activities and NC’s are being actioned and completed in accordance to the sort quota and sort priority list
- Must be able to plan based on factory flow, available equipment, and customer/DC order needs
- Assist Logistics Manager to complete assignments and fill in for Logistics Manager as needed.
Total Rewards
- Starting Pay: Based on experience starting at $33.36/hour+
- Annual Bonus and Merit Increases
- Benefits Starting Day One:
- Medical, Vision, and Dental
- Up to 6% 401(k) match
- Vacation time
- Tuition reimbursement
- Short/Long-Term Disability
- 18 weeks parental leave
What can you expect from Mars?
- Work with over 130,000 diverse and talented Associates, all guided by the Five Principles.
- Join a purpose driven company, where we’re striving to build the world we want tomorrow, today.
- Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
- An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
Skills Required
- High school diploma, GED, or equivalent education
- 2+ years of relevant warehousing or logistics experience
- Ability to troubleshoot inventory management systems and product quality issues
- Ability to transfer procedures and training experiences to others
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office, including Word and Excel, and email
- Technical bachelor's or associate degree
- SAP and/or Blue Yonder experience
- Demonstrated leadership skills
- 1+ years of experience in an outbound logistics technical support role
- Knowledge of quality systems and lean manufacturing principles
- Ability to perform physical job functions, including lifting, pushing, pulling, bending, climbing, and working in varied conditions
- Proficiency in understanding, communicating, reading, and writing in English
Mars Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Mars and has not been reviewed or approved by Mars.
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Healthcare Strength — The benefits package is positioned as comprehensive, with broad medical coverage and additional protections like life insurance and short- and long-term disability. Mental health support is emphasized, including free mental health services and wellbeing programming under initiatives such as Mars Be Well.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is highlighted as market-leading in the U.S., with an example of 18 weeks fully paid for both parents. Additional family-related leave types such as sick time for caregiving and bereavement leave are also described as part of the overall package.
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Retirement Support — Retirement offerings are described as strong, including 401(k) matching (with a 6% match cited) and pension plans in some cases. The broader package also references retirement savings options and contributions aligned to local market practice, supporting long-term financial security.
Mars Insights
What We Do
For more than a century, Mars, Incorporated has been driven by the belief that the world we want tomorrow starts with how we do business today. This idea is at the center of who we have always been as a global, family-owned business. Today, Mars is transforming, innovating and evolving in ways that affirm our commitment to making a positive impact on the world around us. Across our diverse and expanding portfolio of confectionery, food, and petcare products and services, we employ 133,000 dedicated Associates who are all moving in the same direction: forward. With $40 billion in annual sales, we produce some of the world’s best-loved brands including DOVE®, EXTRA®, M&M’s®, MILKY WAY®, SNICKERS®, TWIX®, ORBIT®, PEDIGREE®, ROYAL CANIN®, SKITTLES®, WHISKAS®, COCOAVIA®, and 5™; and take care of half of the world’s pets through our pet health services AniCura, Banfield Pet Hospitals™, BluePearl®, Linnaeus, Pet Partners™, and VCA™. We know we can only be truly successful if our partners and the communities in which we operate prosper as well. The Mars Five Principles – Quality, Responsibility, Mutuality, Efficiency and Freedom – inspire our Associates to take action every day to help create a world tomorrow in which the planet, its people and pets can thrive.
