Vice President, Distribution and Transportation Job Listing at Schreiber Foods in Green Bay, WI (Job ID R0035005)

Description

Job Category: Supply Chain Job Family: Logistics Job Description:

The Vice President, Distribution and Transportation leads Schreiber's Distribution and Transportation job family group and is accountable for the strategy, performance, and continuous improvement of logistics operations supporting U.S. food manufacturing and customer fulfillment.

This role establishes and executes strategies that directly impact cost, service, quality, and growth outcomes aligned with the U.S. Growth Plan. The Vice President collaborates across Manufacturing, Commercial, Finance, Quality, IT, and Supply Chain to optimize the end‑to‑end supply chain, while ensuring food safety, regulatory compliance, and customer requirements are consistently met.

This role offers a flexible hybrid work schedule (Monday-Friday) located at our Home Office in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The hybrid work schedule is 3 days/week onsite at Home Office and 2 days/week from home.

Relocation Benefits: Receive a $10,000 relocation bonus PLUS a generous relocation package if relocating more than 50 miles for this position.

About our Green Bay, WI Home Office:

You'll find lots to love in our beautiful home office in downtown Green Bay, Wisconsin. Our jeans-friendly environment has indoor and outdoor collaboration spaces, state-of-the-art R&D and sensory labs, culinary kitchens, a pilot plant, innovation center and more.

Take advantage of outdoor workspaces. Sample and provide feedback on new products from our R&D team. Enjoy free coffee, soda and popcorn. Take a short walk to restaurants, breweries, the YMCA and a weekly farmer's market on the scenic Fox River. You can even see Lambeau Field from our top floor.

What you'll do:

Enterprise & Functional Strategy

• Establish, implement, and maintain Distribution and Transportation strategies aligned to Schreiber's U.S. Growth Plan.
• Translate enterprise and supply chain strategies into executable logistics, distribution, and transportation plans with measurable business impact.
• Accountable for strategic programs, initiatives, and systems that set direction and priorities for the Distribution & Transportation job family group.
• Ensure alignment of logistics strategy with manufacturing capacity, inventory strategy, customer service commitments, and financial objectives.

Distribution & Transportation Leadership

• Provide executive leadership for distribution centers, transportation operations, and logistics capabilities, including oversight of third‑party logistics providers.
• Drive performance against enterprise KPIs, including cost‑to‑serve, OTIF, safety, quality, service, and compliance.
• Lead network design, capacity planning, and process standardization to support volume growth, geographic expansion, and evolving customer requirements.
• Ensure reliable, compliant, and efficient product flow from manufacturing to customers in a regulated food manufacturing environment.

Financial & Operational Accountability

• Accountable for significant expenditures across distribution and transportation operations, with signature authority.
• Drive cost optimization and productivity improvements while maintaining service, safety, and quality standards.
• Balance operational performance, financial stewardship, and growth enablement.

Cross‑Functional Influence & Collaboration

• Influence across departments to gain alignment on supply chain priorities, tradeoffs, and execution.
• Partner with Manufacturing, Customer Teams, Commercial, Quality, Finance, IT, and Procurement to optimize the full supply chain.
• Represent Distribution & Transportation in enterprise‑level discussions impacting customers, service models, and growth initiatives.

Leadership & Talent Management

• Lead multiple teams of senior managers and/or expert‑level individual contributors within Distribution and Transportation.
• Accountable for succession planning, leadership development, and talent optimization across the job family group.
• Establish consistent expectations for hiring, development, performance management, and progression.
• Develop short‑ to mid‑term talent plans to ensure the organization has the capabilities required to execute strategy.

Food Safety, Quality & Compliance

• Together with the leadership team, ensure compliance with Food Safety Plans, Food Quality Plans, regulatory requirements, and customer standards across distribution and transportation.
• Interpret and communicate customer and regulatory requirements to operations and support teams.
• Establish, audit, and continuously improve PCPs, CCPs, SOPs, and logistics control processes. Review non‑conformances and lead corrective actions to ensure sustained compliance and risk mitigation.
• Identify and further develop talent through effective hiring, coaching, mentoring and regular performance feedback. Responsible for succession planning for the team.
• Provide leadership and expertise to determine our distribution and logistics strategy articulating what is needed to deliver on our growth plans.
• Develop effective working relationships internally at all levels to ensure alignment and execution to the key projects needed to deliver objectives.
• Develop and articulate the benefits of Schreiber Logistics utilizing persuasive presentations to increase our customers and generate excitement and engagement internally.
• Secure new business to deliver Variable Income growth ensuring the achievement of our Growth and Impact commitment.
• Measure and monitor performance, which includes defining the KPI's; and collecting and monitoring data on performance, costs, capacity, service, VI, volume etc. Provide tools and measurements needed to support DC operations.

What you need to succeed:

• Bachelor's degree required; MBA or Master's degree in Supply Chain, Engineering, Finance, or Operations preferred
• 15+ years of relevant business experience, with: Senior leadership experience in Distribution, Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain, or Manufacturing
• Experience leading multiple teams or departments
• Experience in food manufacturing or regulated environments strongly preferred
• Enterprise logistics and supply chain strategy
• Strong communication and influence across job family groups
• Financial acumen and operational governance
• Complex problem solving and decision‑making
• Change leadership and continuous improvement
• Talent development and succession planning
• Cross‑functional collaboration and stakeholder management
• Ability to travel more than 25%

• Get not one, but TWO retirement benefits.  When you join our employee-owned company, you'll be part of our Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) from day one.  In addition to an 8% 401(k) match into the ESOP, Schreiber will contribute an extra amount – about 8% of your earnings – toward your retirement every year.  That's a company contribution of around 16% in retirement savings annually.  That's hard to beat!
• Earn bonus pay. You'll have an opportunity to earn incentive pay twice a year when we meet our company goals.
• Ready to make a move?  Receive a $10,000 relocation bonus PLUS a generous relocation package if relocating more than 50 miles for a U.S. Salaried position.   
• Childcare costs. Get up to $5,000 annually to help you with the cost of childcare.  Monthly contributions toward childcare expenses, including independent babysitters.
• Earn $ for focusing on your health. Depending on your medical plan enrollment, earn $1,200 in your HSA or as a cash payout for prevention activities.  Plus, use your $600 lifestyle spending account for reimbursements related to health, fitness, weight management, mental health and social wellness.
• Pursue development that's relevant to your role, career goals and the company. Plus, we offer tuition reimbursement if you want to further your education to grow in your role at Schreiber.
• Get access to medical, prescription drug, dental and vision benefits starting day one. This includes an onsite nurse and mental health counselor.
• Experience caring like you've never experienced it before. We have a program that's completely organized by and for other partners who need extra help. It's called Partners Helping Partners. We have hundreds of examples of partners organizing fundraisers to help out others going through a hard time.

Sound like a company you'd like to be a part of? Click Apply.

Need extra assistance with the application process? Contact recruiting@schreiberfoods.com or call 920-437-7601.

​For positions that require any amount of travel: Valid driver's license, auto insurance (at least state minimum- more might be required), acceptable driving record per Schreiber Foods discretion, and vehicle that will ensure applicant can meet the travel necessities of the position are required.

Schreiber requires that an employee have authorization to work in the country in which the role is based. In the event, an applicant does not have current work authorization, Schreiber will determine, in its sole discretion, whether to sponsor an individual for work authorization. However, based on immigration requirements, not all roles are suitable for sponsorship.

An Equal Opportunity Employer, all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.

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