Regional Yard Manager

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We are Wayfair; we deliver a best-in-class customer experience in the furniture and home space because of people like you, who are driven, determined, collaborative, and thrive in a fast-paced environment. In order to maintain our high level of delivery standards and meet our customer’s needs, the Wayfair Distribution team plays a key role in improving customer satisfaction and driving repeat business. We’ve been busy building a best-in-class logistics network that allows us to delight customers by speeding up deliveries, adding services, and reducing damage using our own physical, asset-based warehouses. We are looking for talented hard-working individuals to join our growing team – your professional home awaits you at Wayfair!

What you will Do 

  • Identify and drive continuous improvement programs that drives cost efficiencies, delivery speed, process quality,safety and operational efficiency in partnership with CY team
  • Drive Yard products, policies, process adoption
  • Support  Yard team in defining products, policies, process and performance management 
  • Manage Yard performance 
  • Manage Yard Safety compliance 
  •  People management: 
    • Manage day to day operations with Yard Leads, Yard Admins & Shunters
    • Responsible for training Yard leads, admins and shunters 
  • Escalation & resolution management

 What You'll Need:

  • Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Business or Supply Chain/Operations 
  • 4+  years of experience in FC-operations with strong exposure to Performance management and continuous improvement  esp. in ecommerce setup
  • Proven track record of leadership, taking ownership and driving results
  • Strong Excel skills & strong Project management skills (PMP - preferred )
  • Lean Management (Esp Strong experience in driving continuous improvement projects)
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Travel to FCs -  30 % of time

Schedule: Monday-Friday, 8:00AM-5:00PM EST

Locations:

  • Erlanger, KY
  • Florence, KY
  • Hebron, KY

About Wayfair Inc.

Wayfair is one of the world’s largest online destinations for the home. Whether you work in our global headquarters in Boston or Berlin, or in our warehouses or offices throughout the world, we’re reinventing the way people shop for their homes. Through our commitment to industry-leading technology and creative problem-solving, we are confident that Wayfair will be home to the most rewarding work of your career. If you’re looking for rapid growth, constant learning, and dynamic challenges, then you’ll find that amazing career opportunities are knocking.

No matter who you are, Wayfair is a place you can call home. We’re a community of innovators, risk-takers, and trailblazers who celebrate our differences, and know that our unique perspectives make us stronger, smarter, and well-positioned for success. We value and rely on the collective voices of our employees, customers, community, and suppliers to help guide us as we build a better Wayfair – and world – for all. Every voice, every perspective matters. That’s why we’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, ethnicity, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or genetic information.