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DISTRIBUTION MANAGER - Night Shift

Nike, Inc.

Ham, Limburg, Belgium, VT, 05401

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DISTRIBUTION MANAGER - NIGHT SHIFT (R-16461)BELGIUM - ELC
Become a Part of the NIKE, Inc. Team NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and exciting imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and innovators. At Nike, its about each person bringing skills and passion to an exciting and constantly evolving game.

Making the Nike product available around the world is what drives the NIKE, Inc. Supply Chain team. Supply Chain's experts ensure that nearly a billion shoes, garments and accessories get to the right place on time every year. To ensure this sophisticated task runs efficiently, Supply Chain teams work with a network of more than 50 distribution centers, thousands of employees and more than 100,000 stores worldwide, forging ahead every day. Nike European Logistics Campus in Laakdal, Belgium ships digital orders to 38 countries and over 500 retail stores across EMEA, from Portugal to Siberia and from Norway to South Africa.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
Were looking for Distribution Managers (DM) to join one of our five Omnichannel Distribution Centers (DC) at our European Logistics Center (ELC) across Ham and Laakdal in Belgium. This is an outstanding opportunity for you to lead, mentor & encourage our athletes (employees) to drive our ELC purpose!
Distribution Manager Night shift: Monday to Thursday from 10 PM 6 AM, Friday as a 24/7 shifts integration time where all shifts come together.
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
As a Distribution Manager you are a pivotal talent in the DC not only in relation to the day to day operational management of your shift but also looking towards the future of the DC development with a continuous improvement mentality & goal to bring the process & people agenda to the next level. The key pillars of the role are passionate about operational management, driving culture, team & setting strategic priorities & crafting the future.

OPERATIONAL
Starting your shift, youll join up with the previous DM to get an understanding of whats been happening prior to your arrival. You take the end to end view of the upcoming topics. You align with all shift DMs to understand how to focus the energy and efforts of your team coaches. You meet with your team to discuss targets, focus, the shift set-up, changes to strategy and focus on what needs to be achieved & how! If there are troubles in the process, especially in stressful situations, you lead and help pull the teams through challenges by providing communications and context and setting the direction.

DRIVING CULTURE
You are in the lead for bringing improvements to the DC processes and teams. You achieve this through creating a sense of belonging and bringing that to the shop floor. There are frequent team challenges such as fluctuations in staffing and you lead in stabilising & elevating the group through these headwinds. You work closely with coaches on development discussions always acting in line with Nikes core values.



TEAM MANAGEMENT
As a real people manager of large scale teams (100+ - tenured/new, FTEs, job students, temps) you mentor and encourage your teams to strengthen our Nike Culture and develop talent/teams so that every team member can play at their best. You enable athletes to work in a safe and healthy environment, where everybody feels respected and you build a positive relationship with our social partners.

STRATEGIC PRIORITIES & CRAFTING THE FUTURE
You define a strategic roadmap for the operational areas together with your colleagues x-shift and implement a sustainable approach to drive continuous improvement of the processes. This will be aligned to Nikes supply chain strategy as well as the complete global Nike strategy.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH
In this role you will report to the Distribution Director and lead your team of Coaches (direct 4 to 10) and broader teams (100 athletes/employees) to ensure we serve the marketplace in a reliable and efficient way. You have a very strong collaborative role to play in the DM community with your peers. You partner with a multitude of cross functional groups including: planning, maintenance, technology, HR, transportation, lean. You have regular interfacing with the unions and you will also connect with relevant external suppliers.
WHAT YOU BRING
TEAM MANAGEMENT: You bring validated expertise in terms of leading teams.
PROVEN EXPERIENCE: Operations, logistics, transportations, retail/wholesale would be the strongest industry links, however we are open to consider leadership profiles from other industries if you bring the motivation to learn, curiosity & interest in the Nike business.
ENGLISH: Language skills are a must (Dutch in most instances is going to give you the ability to act with ease with the varied interfaces you encounter in the role).
CHANGE AGILITY: Change, ambiguity, fast paced this is us. The market sets our priorities as we move more towards an omnichannel digital focus and put the customer at the center of all we do. This means all days are unique. Other industries are completely different and realistically you will want to be cognizant of this difference and feel that you would succeed in this environment.
GROUND-BREAKING CHANGE: We are on a journey, and you need to know how to bring people comfortably through change, moving them to the future with positive feelings & experiences.
NON-HIERARCHICAL: Is our style, and we respect a collaboration and modesty in our leadership profiles.
ANALYTICAL: With this we mean logistic/operational thinking on a high level. We expect you to be able to look for connections in data, understanding the impact on the business, assessing challenges, risks & opportunities in the information.
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