General Manager

Charlie's Produce - Who We Are

Charlie's Produce is a privately owned wholesale produce company. We are the largest privately owned produce wholesaler on the West Coast, and we are growing. The secret to our success in this industry is PEOPLE! We strive to hire the best and we reward them with a working environment that fosters loyalty, stability, innovation, and growth. Charlie's was founded in quality, and we are proud that it is still our focus.

With a team of dedicated people who are passionate about food, supply chain, and their community we are looking for like minded individuals to help further our goal to enhance our communities through quality produce.

What we offer:

An amazing company culture!
• Medical/Dental/Vision on the first of the month following hire.
• ESOP (Profit Sharing) and 401(k).
• Paid vacations, paid holidays and sick days.
• 100% Paid College Tuition for employees and their dependents.
• Employee assistance program (EAP).

Additional Compensation Details:

• $160-190K annual Dependent on Experience and Location of Role
• Potential 90-day performance-based raise
• Yearly review with possibility of increase based on performance and tenure

What you bring:

Without amazing leadership, we fail as a company. Because of this, our General Manager must have an unwavering grasp of our industry, in depth experience developing successful sales programs and leading varying departments toward a shared vision. We're looking for someone who will lead the staff by example, fostering a strong, cohesive team environment that builds confidence. But that's not all. Here are a few more of the lofty tasks you will be charged with on a daily basis:

• Responsible for managing financials including; P&L, budgeting, and forecasting to ensure the profitability of the division.
• Manage a sales program by developing the sales reps, identifying prospects, assigning projects, creating and assigning territories, creating goals and analyzing sales reports.
• Give guidance and support to all depts. in the division from operations, transportation, purchasing to sales.
• Provides leadership for employee relations through effective communications, coaching, training, and development.
• Measure performance to company goals and standards and establish targets for improvements in safety, quality, cost, delivery and employee relations.
• Provide leadership and direction to all Sr. Division Managers
• Manages policy deployment in the areas of Lean Manufacturing techniques, quality, cost reduction, complete and on-time delivery, safety, customer satisfaction, employee relations, visual controls and plant performance measures.
• Balances work cell capacity/loading across the division.
• Provides division leadership through a 3-6 month planning cycle.
• Determines operations headcount needs and ensures compliance with company policies.
• Manages compliance with state and federal regulations

Where you have been:

We're looking for someone with a minimum of seven years of Sr. Management experience in the wholesale food distribution industry. You'll have a proven track record building successful teams. You must be an amazing communicator with the ability to inspire. Ideally you will have a BA in Business or equivalent experience.

• Leadership: a demonstrated ability to lead people and get results through others.
• Proven sales leadership, driving results
• Kaizen and Lean Manufacturing techniques
• Planning: an ability to think ahead and plan over a 3-6 month time span.
• Measurement of performance to company goals and standards and establishment of targets for improvements in safety, quality, cost, delivery and employee relations.
• Management: the ability to organize and manage multiple priorities.
• Employee training and development.
• Technical skills in materials and inventory management, production scheduling, and preventive maintenance.
• Quality orientation and attention to detail.
• Problem analysis and problem resolution.
• High performance teams and a strong team player.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Intermediate MS Office Suite and computer proficiency.

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Supplemental Information

This employer participates in E-Verify and will provide the Social Security Administration and if necessary, the Department of Homeland Security with information from each new employee's Form I-9 to confirm work authorization.

Please note that the pay range provided is a good faith estimate for the position at the time of posting. Actual compensation will be dependent on factors, including but not limited to, the individual's qualifications, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities as well as physical work location within the state.

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Charlie's Produce is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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