Are you a quality-obsessed operations leader who excels in leading a high-performing team in a high-volume manufacturing and distribution environment? Can you balance the need for high productivity in a complex environment with a compassionate and inclusive leadership style? If so, welcome to ALOM.
We are a global, high-volume, and service-driven supply chain management company. Our award-winning leadership develops and implements highly optimized product delivery strategies for our clients, representing leading brands in the medical, technology, and very regulated industries.
ALOM is a destination for passionate, talented, and service-oriented professionals. We continuously invest in our employees, reward bold thinking, promote teamwork, and focus on community engagement. Our inclusive culture is built on diversity, acceptance, respect, and operational excellence.
We are currently looking for a Vice President of Operations to oversee Operations at our US locations and join our Executive Team.
You will have the opportunity to:
As a member of the executive team and head of operations, you can significantly influence the direction of the company and the difference we make to our customers and the world. This is an ideal position for a career-oriented operations leader with an eye on progressing in a value-driven company with a history of growth and opportunity.
You will manage all internal operational departments across multiple local sites, including warehouse, production, fulfillment, engineering, and facilities. You will collaborate with our People Team to maintain the highest learning and development levels. You will collaborate with Client Success to support customer onboarding, satisfaction, and requirements. In collaboration with cost accounting and client-facing staff, you will set pricing, capture ongoing costs, and drive costs down. We consider ourselves leaders in the supply chain, and our ability to ramp, change, and respond to market conditions is legendary. We expect you to continue to drive this aspect of supply chain agility for our operations.
Here's what you need to succeed in the role:- Increasing responsibility in manufacturing and distribution leadership roles with multi-tier management in a fast-paced, people-heavy environment. You will have a strong understanding of manufacturing, omnichannel distribution, facilities management, and related systems, such as ERP and WMS
- Deep experience in developing and managing strong operations teams in a collaborative culture
- Our client-centric approach requires a high level of agility. You must have a proven ability to initiate and drive change on a strategic, tactical, and day-to-day level, taking the lead from digital transformation and other strategic initiatives to more fluid tactical and operational changes. Examples of such changes would includerapid customer onboarding and associated shifts in operational needs, to managingdaily fluctuations, sometimes with extremely short notice and extreme swings, without compromising quality or missing deadlines
- Passion for driving impeccable quality, using ISO and QMS as an integral part of continuous improvement, and maintaining uncompromising Six Sigma+ standards. You must be intimately familiar with quality and EHS standards, preferably in a medical context, and have a proven ability to collaborate with and leverage quality
- Strong drive to succeed and a high level of resourcefulness, ensuring that you and your teams always meet deadlines, service level agreements, and cost goals
- Exceptional verbal and listening communication skills, with the proven ability to present to, interact with, and inspire small to large audiences, including high-level communications to clients
- Relevant BS and preferably an MBA (or substantial business management experience in the industry)
- You will be local to either our Indianapolis facility or (preferred) our Fremont headquarters. Sorry, no relocation.
ALOM is looking for leaders who are:- Culturally aligned with our values
Trust and commitment to clients, goals, and each other Respect, diversity, inclusion, collaboration Service orientation internally and externally ESG, corporation social responsibility Innovate for excellence and quality Technology leadership for optimization, agility, and competitive advantage
- Mentors with extensive experience developing and growing high-performing teams in a rapidly changing environment
- Passionate about driving productivity through digital transformation, continuous improvements, cost efficiencies, and delivering world-class quality to our customers
- Strategic leaders who thrive in a diverse workplace and embrace our culture of diversity
- Highly collaborative by nature, transparent, and open-minded while maintaining a united and supportive work environment
- Hands-on influencers with an ability to bring awareness of complex issues and drive and deliver results and consensus
- Problem-solvers with a tendency to be practical and innovative
- Excellent communicator with a strong sense of professionalism
- Experienced managing multi-site, multi-region operations, including setting up new locations
- Proven results in establishing and maintaining key performance metrics and dashboards
- Well-rounded with world-class operations experience, leading facilities with high-volume assembly, kitting, warehouse management, omni-channel distribution, and responsibility for EHS, 6S, and Six Sigma practices
- We strongly prefer somebody with a strong quality background and expertise, preferably in the medical or other very regulated industries.
$250,000 - $310,000 biweekly
We offer competitive salaries, benefits including health and welfare coverage, 401(k) match, and paid leaves.Bottom line:ALOM is a great place to work. We encourage you to submit your resume and be a part of a growing, firmly established, and success-driven company that values its staff.