Operations Manager

What We Do

CarParts.com is the go-to eCommerce platform for auto care and maintenance. We offer drivers quality parts at competitive prices and allow customers to schedule an appointment with a trusted mechanic directly from our website. We use world-class design principles and the latest technologies to deliver a fast, easy-to-use, and mobile-intuitive website. And with our company-owned national distribution network, we bring the best brands and manufacturers directly to consumers, cutting out the costs associated with brick-and-mortar retailers. Our more than 1,700 team members worldwide are dedicated to Empowering Drivers Along Their Journey.

Our Culture

At CarParts.com,we'reDRIVEN by our core values:Safety First, Customer Focused, and a Commitment to Excellence. These values guide us in everything we do and push us further in our growth both as a company and as people. They cultivate an environment where employees are inspired and empowered as we build and thrive together. All thehard workof our entire team has resulted in back-to-back record-breaking quarters since Q1 of 2020, as well as our inclusion in the Los Angeles Business Journal's top 100 Best Places to Work in Los Angeles list forfouryears in a row (2020, 2021,2022,2023). Join us!

Summary of Role

The Operations Manager manages a distribution center team and develop warehouse initiatives while creating overall best-in practice warehouse efficiencies. The Operations Manager is responsible for managing the daily activities of a distribution center; developing, implementing, and leading successful operations; planning, organizing and monitoring the receiving, storage and distribution of all items received; ensuing a smooth and consistent operation so product is located, picked, packed and distributed in an effective and efficient manner to satisfy customer requirements.

YOU WILL:

• Manages policy, procedure and operational aspects of the distribution center.
• Strategic planning and execution of warehouse operations to profitability, productivity and efficiency.
• Develop and direct the Distribution Center management team to ensure fast order processing, accurate inventory, proper and timely stocking of product, cost-efficient shipping to customers and effective processing of product.
• Manage and implement improved processes and management methods to generate a higher ROI and workflow optimization.
• Continually investigate and introduce process improvement measures to provide any suggestions to leadership for consideration.
• Responsible for maintaining equipment levels to ensure tasks can be accomplished and in a safe and effective manner. Researches material handling equipment to ensure procurement of the most suitable equipment in terms of performance, safety, reliability and cost.
• Ensures timely and cost-efficient delivery of inventory and finished goods.
• Utilizes systems to monitor and track inventory through the distribution chain and identify and resolve issues.
• Manages inventory control, inbound and outbound, warehouse operations and maintenance of equipment and facilities.
• Creates functional strategies and specific objectives for the facility and develops budgets, policies, procedures to support the functional infrastructure. Anticipates and requests funding for future needs.
• Obtains a deep knowledge of all functional areas of the distribution center and a solid knowledge of supply chain/logistics overall.
• Create, implement and monitor compliance with warehouse policies, practices and procedures to drive efficiency
• Develop, implement and maintain key metrics for the warehouse.
• Perform other duties as required or assigned.

YOU MUST HAVE:

• Minimum 5-8 years of management experience within a warehouse environment.
• Bachelor's degree in business, business operations or logistics preferred Broad knowledge of distribution operations.
• Education and experience may be substituted for one another.
• Functional reading, writing and math.
• PC literacy.
• Written and verbal communication/instruction skills Intermediate interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills.
• Self-motivation and a determination to succeed. Innovative ideas followed by clear planning and implementation
• The ability to meet deadlines.
• The ability to work overtime as required.
• The ability to work in a fast-paced environment.
• The ability to work with a team.
• The ability to lift products of up to 50 lbs.
• A flexible attitude.

CarParts.com is an equal-opportunity employer. We enthusiastically accept our responsibility to make employment decisions without regard to race, religious creed, color, age, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, or any other classification protected by federal, state, and local laws and ordinances. Our management is dedicated to ensuring that we fulfill this policy with respect to hiring, placement, promotion, transfer, demotion, layoff, termination, recruitment advertising, pay, and other forms of compensation, training, and general treatment during employment.

The above-noted job description is not intended to describe, in detail, the multitude of tasks that may be assigned but rather to give the incumbent a general sense of the responsibilities and expectations of his/her position. As the nature of business demands change so, too, may the essential functions of this position.