Director Distribution Operations

Distribution & Transportation

$161K — $220K *
Transportation
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8-10 years of supply chain operations leadership experience
  • Experience supervising 100+ associates in multi-functional teams
  • BA in a related field or 10+ years of supply chain experience
  • Strong track record of operational performance in high-volume environments

Responsibilities

  • Build and communicate a strategic vision for the distribution and transportation campus
  • Align campus operations with regional and network objectives
  • Oversee day-to-day campus operations ensuring safety and service excellence
  • Ensure timely and cost-effective deliveries
  • Optimize distribution operations while maintaining cost discipline
  • Maintain strong relationships with third-party labor partners
  • Develop long-term strategies for facility efficiency

Benefits

  • Opportunity to influence regional service performance and financial results
  • Impact on cross-functional partnerships with retail and distribution leadership
  • Role in shaping team culture and development
  • Chance to lead high-performing operational teams
Full Job Description

Lead a high-performing distribution and transportation campus powering the Ahold Delhaize Supply Chain.

We're looking for an inspiring, strategically minded leader to oversee all operations across a major distribution and transportation campus supporting grocery, fresh, frozen, and break-pack product movement. As the Director, Campus Leader, you will shape the future of an essential supply chain node, driving performance across service, productivity, efficiency, financial outcomes, and people development.

This role is ideal for a seasoned supply chain executive who thrives in a fast-moving environment, builds strong partnerships, and elevates operational excellence at scale.

What You'll Lead

You will directly manage and provide vision for teams across:
  • Inventory
  • Audit & Slotting
  • Security
  • Transportation
  • Maintenance & Facilities
  • WMS & Technology
  • Retail Customer Support
  • CI / Industrial Engineering
  • Yard & Reclaim

Your leadership will set the pace and direction for a complex and high-throughput distribution ecosystem.

What You'll Do

Strategic Leadership & Vision
  • Build and communicate a clear, forward-looking strategic vision for a Distribution, Reclamation/GM, and Transportation campus.
  • Align campus operations with broader regional and network objectives to strengthen overall supply chain capability.

Operational Excellence
  • Oversee all day-to-day campus operations, ensuring excellence in safety, quality, shrink management, transportation, and service delivery.
  • Ensure deliveries are on time and at cost, meeting internal customer (supply chain + retail) service expectations.
  • Optimize distribution operations while maintaining cost discipline.

Partnership & Stakeholder Management
  • Maintain strong, results-focused relationships with third-party labor partners, ensuring operational alignment and performance.
  • Serve as the campus leader partnering with Retail leadership, ensuring service levels and customer expectations are consistently met.

Financial & Resource Leadership
  • Develop long-term strategies that improve product flow and maximize facility efficiency.
  • Own the campus operating and capital budgets, ensuring investments support growth, safety, and performance.
  • Meet or exceed key performance indicators (KPIs) that measure both campus and network success.

Continuous Improvement & Innovation
  • Drive continuous improvement across financial, technical, and cultural systems.
  • Lead and contribute to network-wide CI projects, supply chain planning initiatives, and cross-functional innovation efforts.
  • Champion organizational change, building high-performing teams and evolving processes to meet future needs.

What You Bring
  • 8-10 years of supply chain operations leadership experience.
  • Experience supervising 100+ associates across multi-functional teams.
  • BA in a related field or 10+ years of supply chain experience.
  • Strong history of driving operational performance in complex, high-volume environments.

Skills & Strengths
  • Exceptional customer focus and ability to partner with retail leadership.
  • Strong collaboration, influencing, and communication skills.
  • Skilled negotiator and analytical thinker.
  • Strategic mindset with the ability to execute through people and processes.
  • Effective problem solver with strong capability to navigate unexpected challenges involving brands and third-party partners.
  • Strong human relations skills to lead and engage internal teams, vendors, and brand partners.
  • Skilled in leading organizational change and inspiring teams through transformation.

Other Requirements
  • Ability to travel 15-25%.
  • Willingness to support on-call needs 7 days per week.


Why This Role Matters

As a Director Campus Leader, you will influence:
  • Regional and network service performance
  • Financial results for a key supply chain hub
  • Cross-functional partnerships with retail and distribution leadership
  • The culture, development, and success of your operational teams


Your leadership will directly impact how millions of customers across the region receive the products they rely on every day.

Salary:

-$161,000-220,000, depending on experience.

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