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Distribution Warehouse Manager - Belleville, MI

Scholastic

Detroit, MIFull-time$67–95K/yrSeen 5 days agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago

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At a glance

Compensation
$67–95K/yr
Location
Detroit, MI
Schedule
Full-time
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Job overview

The Distribution Warehouse Manager is responsible for planning, scheduling, directing, and carrying out daily operations at Scholastic’s Belleville, Michigan distribution facility. The role oversees branch operations, production, inventory, safety, staffing, and asset security while ensuring compliance with company policies and standards. It also partners with Sales and HR to support business performance and employee management.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Capacity PlanningStaffing MethodsProduction ManagementInventory ManagementInventory ControlWarehouse OperationsCommunicationCost ControlPersonnel ManagementInjury Investigation

Qualifications

BA/BS in Management, Business, Transportation, or Operations5+ Years Front-Line Management Experience

Full job description

Detroit, Michigan

Belleville, Michigan

Full time

R15879

Job Description:

Direct responsibility for planning, scheduling, directing, and carrying out the day-to-day operational activities of the Belleville, MI distribution facility. Evaluate and review branch operations to ensure compliance with company standards and policies, while optimizing performance through the summary of job responsibilities below.

  • Operational Efficiency : Improve efficiency and use capacity planning to meet financial goals.

  • Branch Operations : Ensure efficient packing, setup, delivery, and pickup of book fairs using capacity planning and staffing methods.

  • Production Management : Oversee and utilize the production management system to ensure daily production plans are completed.

  • Inventory Control : Monitor and manage inventory utilization and control processes to meet company objectives.

  • Safety Meetings : Conduct monthly safety meetings with full attendance and proper record-keeping.

  • Work Environment : Maintain a safe and productive work environment, minimize injuries and auto losses, conduct injury investigations, and comply with OSHA guidelines and company directives.

  • Personnel Management : Direct hiring, training, development, and evaluation of warehouse staff and supervisors.

  • Collaboration : Enhance business performance through effective communication between Operations and Sales teams.

  • Asset Security : Ensure assets are secured to minimize product damage and property loss.

  • Policy Execution : Implement company policies, procedures, and programs consistently and timely.

  • Customer Service : Provide superior customer service while maintaining cost controls.

  • Staff Meetings : Plan and conduct regular meetings to inform, educate, and recognize employees, and facilitate idea exchange.

  • HR Partnership : Collaborate with HR on recruiting, training, evaluating, and disciplining employees fairly and objectively.

  • Confidentiality : Maintain confidentiality of business-related information.

Qualifications

  • BA/BS degree in Management, Business, Transportation, or Operations related curriculum preferred.

  • Minimum of 5 years of proven front-line management experience in operations for a manufacturing or distribution company.

  • Proven ability to manage a high-quality, efficient, and cost-effective operation is essential.

  • Inventory management experience preferred.

  • Inventory control experience with hands-on management of warehouse products, supplies and goods.

Time Type:

Full time

Job Type:

Regular

Job Family Group:

Distrib & Matls Mgmt

Location Region/State:

Michigan

Compensation Range:

Annual Salary: 67,000.00 - 94,500.00

EEO Statement:

Scholastic is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our policy is clear: there shall be no discrimination on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, or status as a disabled veteran or Vietnam veteran. Those factors shall not influence the determination of qualifications for a job or other opportunity within the company. Further, all personnel actions (such as compensation, tuition aid, benefits, transfers, promotions, and dismissals, company-sponsored training, social and recreational programs) shall be administered without discrimination.

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For more than 100 years, Scholastic Corporation (NASDAQ: SCHL) has been meeting children where they are – at school, at home and in their communities – by creating quality content and experiences, all beginning with literacy. Scholastic delivers stories, characters, and learning moments that empower all kids to become lifelong readers and learners through bestselling children’s books, literacy- and knowledge-building resources for schools including classroom magazines, and award-winning, entertaining children's media.

As the world's largest publisher and distributor of children's books through school-based book clubs and book fairs, classroom libraries, school and public libraries, retail, and online, and with a global reach into more than 135 countries, Scholastic encourages the personal and intellectual growth of all children, while nurturing a lifelong relationship with reading, themselves, and the world around them.

Learn more at www.scholastic.com .

How this job compares

Set against the 3,765 open Operations Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 5, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$67–95K/yr
  • Michigan median$75–117K/yr40 salary ranges
  • US median$105–150K/yr2,215 salary ranges

This range's midpoint, $81K, is 14% below the Michigan median midpoint ($94K) — in the middle half of Operations Management salary ranges in Michigan.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 76 open Operations Management jobs in Michigan and 3,765 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Michigan
Experience
This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience; Operations Management postings that state a minimum ask for 5 years at the median (2,891 postings).
Education
834 of the 3,765 open Operations Management jobs (22%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 5, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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