Manager, Distribution Operations

About the Role

Reporting to the Director, Operations Thailand, the Manager, Distribution Operations leads and optimizes warehouse and distribution operations at Hach’s Asia Distribution Center (ADC) in Rayong, Thailand—a complex, high-mix manufacturing and distribution hub serving global customers.

The role drives performance across inbound, storage, inventory control, and outbound operations through VES and Daily Management, with accountability for SQDIP results.

The Manager, Distribution Operations builds and develops a high-performing team of 20+ associates and ensures safe, compliant, and efficient handling of hazardous materials, a large SKU portfolio, and export shipments across multiple geographies. The role partners cross-functionally with Supply Chain, Planning, Production, Quality, Import/Export, Customer Service, and 3PL providers to deliver reliable service, maintain regulatory compliance, and sustain inventory and flow integrity across the end-to-end value stream.

What You'll Do 

Safety & Compliance

• Develop and sustain a safety-first culture by embedding 5S and EHS practices, with focus on hazardous-material handling, spill prevention, segregation, and PPE compliance.
• Ensure adherence to Company Rules, ADC SOPs, and applicable regulatory requirements, including Thai Free Zone, IATA, IMDG, and DOT standards.
• Oversee trade and customs compliance, including documentation accuracy, dangerous-goods declarations, and HS code classification.
• Maintain audit readiness for internal, regulatory, and customs requirements, ensuring proper documentation and inspection compliance.

Operations & Inventory Management

• Lead warehouse operations across receiving, put-away, replenishment, picking, packing, and shipping to achieve dock-to-stock, order cycle time, and on-time delivery targets.
• Own inventory accuracy through cycle counting, root-cause analysis, corrective actions, and ERP/WMS master-data discipline.
• Ensure end-to-end flow integration with manufacturing and distribution using VSM, standard work, and Daily Management practices.
• Manage customers against service-level expectations, ensure alignment with global operations.

People Leadership & Capability Building

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of 20+ associates through clear goal setting, performance management, and GEMBA-based coaching.
• Build problem-solving capability and reinforce accountability through DM and VES practices.
• Plan workforce capacity and shift coverage to support demand variability; drive cross-training and skills matrix development.

Cross-Functional & External Collaboration

• Partner with Planning, Production, Quality, Finance, Customer Service, and Import/Export functions to balance service, cost, and inventory performance.
• Support global distribution requirements, including complex export shipments and hazardous-material handling.
• Contribute to ERP/WMS improvement initiatives with data collection integrity and accuracy.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify and implement warehouse improvements to enhance service levels, efficiency, and operational stability.
• Lead Kaizen events to eliminate waste and improve inbound-to-outbound value streams using standard work, Daily Management, and Kamishibai.
• Monitor and drive KPI performance across SQDIP, order fulfillment, and DC metrics.
• Leverage data analytics to prioritize actions and support cost optimization initiatives across warehousing and logistics.

What We're Looking For 

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Warehousing, or a related field.
• 8+ years' progressive experience in warehouse, logistics, or supply chain management, preferably in manufacturing with hazardous chemicals and complex SKU portfolios.
• Proven track record managing hazardous-goods handling, IMDG/IATA/DOT compliance, and export logistics in a regulated environment.
• Experience with ERP and Warehouse Management Systems (WMS), with demonstrated ability to leverage data for operational decision-making.
• Demonstrated leadership ability to coach, develop, and manage diverse operational teams of 20 or more members.
• Continuous-improvement mindset with applied Lean or Kaizen experience in a warehouse or distribution setting.
• Strong business communication skills in English and Thai, with the ability to engage cross-functionally and with external stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Oracle ERP (EBS/Fusion) or an enterprise-level WMS platform.
• Advanced Excel proficiency for data analysis, reporting, and operational dashboards.
• Background in 3PL management and vendor performance evaluation.
• Familiarity with ISO, GHS, or other quality and chemical-safety management frameworks.
• Experience operating within a global or multi-site supply chain environment.
• Professional certification in logistics, supply chain, or warehouse management (e.g., APICS CSCP, CLTD).

Key Competencies

• Organizational & Analytical Skill: handles a high degree of complexity and data processing.
• Customer Focus: strong dedication to meeting customer needs and ensuring on-time delivery.
• Attention to Detail: accuracy is critical to success in this role.
• Team Collaboration: works seamlessly across departments, ensuring alignment between order management, production, and supply chain.
• Adaptability: adjusts plans in response to changing demand, production capacity, and material availability — and drives results under pressure and shifting priorities.

About Hach

At Hach (www.hach.com), a Veralto company, we ensure water quality for people around the world, and every team member plays a vital role in that mission. Our founding vision is to make water analysis better—faster, simpler, greener, and more informative. We accomplish this through teamwork, customer partnerships, passionate experts, and reliable, easy-to-use solutions.

As part of our team and the broader Veralto network, you’ll be part of a unique work environment where purpose meets possibility: where you’ll make an immediate, measurable impact on a global scale by enabling the world’s everyday water needs, and where you’ll have opportunities to foster your professional development and fuel your career growth.

Motivated by the highest possible stakes in climate change and global health, we’re working together within a rapidly digitizing industry to find innovative technologies that guarantee the safety of our water and our environment. More about us: https://www.hach.com/about-us

About Veralto

Hach is proud to be part of the Water Quality segment of Veralto (NYSE: VLTO), a global leader dedicated to ensuring access to clean water, safe food and medicine, and trusted essential goods.

At Veralto, our unifying purpose of Safeguarding the World’s Most Vital Resources™ is more than words: it’s a proven path towards positive change, improvement for our planet, and development for yourself.

Whether we’re ensuring the continued availability of clean drinking water, protecting our waterways, or enhancing the traceability, color accuracy, and packaging of everyday essentials, the work we do every day contributes to a safer world and a more sustainable future.

When you join Veralto’s vibrant global network of 13 operating companies and 17,000 associates, you join a unique culture and work environment where purpose meets possibility: where the work you do has an everyday impact on the resources and essentials we all rely on, and where you’ll have boundless opportunities to deepen your skillset, pursue your ambitions, and grow your career.

Why Join Us 

Our Culture & Values

• Purpose-driven work: This role directly supports reliable customer fulfillment and operational excellence in a business dedicated to water quality and essential global supply.
• Continuous improvement: ADC operates with Daily Management, VES principles, standard work, Kaizen, and problem-solving disciplines that support both business performance and associate development.
• Cross-functional impact: The role partners broadly across planning, production, quality, import/export, finance, customer service, and logistics providers to improve service, compliance, and flow.

Benefits & Perks

• Compensation structure - salary, allowances, bonus
• Health and wellness benefits - medical, dental, vision, mental health, annual health check
• Work-life balance offerings - flexible hours, remote options, PTO, business leaves
• Professional development - training budget, conferences, tuition reimbursement eligibility
• Retirement and financial - provident fund, financial planning
• Family support - parental leave, family health coverage eligibility

ENVIRONMENT

Physical Demands

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is occasionally required to reach with hands and arms. The employee is required to sit constantly. The employee may occasionally squat, turn/twist, or reach. The employee is constantly using their hands to: finger, handle, feel, or operate objects, and computer keyboards. The employee is occasionally required to walk, stand, climb, balance, stoop, bend, kneel, crouch or crawl, and talk, hear, and smell.

The employee must occasionally lift, carry, push, or pull up to 20 pounds.

Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.

Work Environment

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

The work environment consists of an indoor office or home office with good ventilation, adequate lighting, and low noise levels.

The duties listed in job descriptions are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or a logical assignment to the position. The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and the employee and is subject to change as the employer's needs and job requirements change.

PRE-EMPLOYMENT TESTING

External hiring into this position is contingent upon completing a pre-employment drug screen, background check, and possible credit history review.

At Veralto, we value diversity and the existence of similarities and differences, both visible and not, found in our workforce, workplace and throughout the markets we serve. Our associates, customers and shareholders contribute unique and different perspectives as a result of these diverse attributes.
 

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