Operations Manager | Distribution Manager (Management Consultant Opportunity)

DeWolff, Boberg & Associates

$75K — $95K *
Manufacturing & Automotive
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree required
  • 5+ years of management experience in Manufacturing, Distribution, or Engineering preferred
  • Strong conflict management and problem-solving skills
  • Proven leadership and analytical abilities
  • Exceptional communication and facilitation skills
  • High proficiency in MS Excel
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

  • Coaching frontline managers to drive behavioral changes
  • Conducting data analysis to inform client decision-making
  • Identifying waste and improvement opportunities in client processes
  • Providing constructive feedback to clients regarding organizational deficiencies
  • Empowering clients through self-exploration of their business operations
  • Collaborating daily with client leaders to enhance management practices
  • Assisting clients with tool development or modifications

Benefits

  • Comprehensive medical benefits with 100% premiums paid for employees
  • Dental, vision, short & long-term disability insurance, and FSA included
  • Two weeks of paid vacation plus one week paid PTO and a paid holiday closure
  • Flexible travel with company-paid companion flights and accommodations
  • Pre-tax travel reimbursement and allowances for transportation expenses
Full Job Description
Description

This position requires 100% weekly, Sunday-Friday travel to designated project locations.

We focus on implementation and transformational change and deliver value by:
  • Professionally service client organizations to solve business issues, create value, maximize growth and improve overall performance for sustainability
  • Quickly become familiar with client business challenges and technologies to understand the environment for behavioral changes
  • Gather, organize and analyze data regarding key business drivers to present information in a manner that is meaningful to clients by using metrics and analytics to guide organizational decision-making
  • Thoroughly understand client resource utilization to identify waste in time and resources to provide operational and performance improvement opportunities
  • Openly, respectfully and professionally discuss business and organizational shortcomings with clients to provide valuable feedback and influence solutions for long-term sustainability
  • Empower frontline accountability of actions, roles and responsibilities by guiding clients through self-explorations of their business segments and staff utilization
  • Collaborate with frontline leaders on a daily basis to improve leadership and management behaviors
  • Effectively coach clients to approach their business issues as forward thinkers to exude confidence for improving behaviors and process efficiencies
  • Assist the client with tool building and/or modification
  • Foster a spirit of teamwork and unity among project team members that allows for healthy disagreements - expeditiously resolve conflicts by approaching with positive cohesiveness, supportiveness and working effectively together to enable the overall team to succeed

Travel and Per Diem:
  • All travel reward points and air miles earned personally belong to each Management Consultant and can be used as preferred
  • Weekend travel flexibility including company paid companion flights or other city destination accommodations
  • All employees are eligible to receive a pre-tax biweekly travel reimbursement per diem while working at a client site provided they stay at project site hotel
  • A pre-tax biweekly allowance is included for parking and transportation fare to and from employees' home airport

Benefits:
  • DB&A has a competitive benefits package and offers 2 plan options that pays 100% of medical premiums for employee
  • Medical, dental, vision, short & long-term disability Insurance, FSA, 401(k)
  • Two weeks paid vacation + one week paid PTO + paid year-end holiday closure

Advancement Opportunities:

At DB&A, our people are our greatest asset which is why we believe strongly in the internal growth and development of our employees. As a Management Consultant, individuals have the opportunity to drive their careers based on performance and contributions.

We offer a three-tier Consultant Career Track and a Project Manager Career Track with the ability to advance directly from Senior Consultant to Project Manager. As a Project Manager, there is also upward potential to become a Chief of Operations and/or a Shareholder of DB&A. Our remarkable team consists of highly competitive and committed business professionals who are passionate about building life-long rewarding careers with us.

Professional Requirements:
  • Bachelor's Degree
  • Minimum of 5 years of direct supervision and management experience (Manufacturing, Distribution or Engineering industries preferred)
  • Demonstrated ability to manage conflict, build consensus and facilitate problem-solving and collaboration amongst cross functional teams
  • Strong observation, analytical, numerical reasoning, business acumen and leadership skills
  • Strong facilitation skills and ability to build relationships and interface with clients at all levels of the organization
  • Ability to balance delivery of results, problem solving and client management
  • Ability to juggle many responsibilities at one time to effectively partner with clients throughout the project lifecycle
  • Develop a high level of personal and professional credibility with all levels of the organization and external client
  • Ability to adapt to fast-paced, high pressure and changing environments
  • Exceptional communication (verbal, written and presentation) skills
  • Ability to succeed in a team environment and deliver/receive daily constructive feedback
  • Advanced proficiency in MS Office Suite specifically Excel
  • Ability to pass a pre-employment background, criminal, financial/credit and drug screening

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