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Odeko

Streamlines cafe orders and vendor management

General Manager - Delivery Operations

Warehouse & FulfillmentConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeMoonachie, NJ, USA

About the Job

Requirements

  • Six to eight years of operations management experience in warehousing, logistics, or distribution, including final-mile delivery and experience owning outcomes across multiple shifts or functions.
  • Three or more years managing through other leaders rather than direct floor supervision, with the ability to drive results and gain buy-in without direct authority over every execution detail.
  • Demonstrated ability to deliver metrics across Safety, People, Quality, Productivity, and Costs across multiple shifts.
  • Strong working knowledge of routing and dispatch operations, food safety and cold-chain compliance, and safety and training program management.
  • Proven experience leading cross-functional projects with measurable outcomes, ideally including exposure to network-level or multi-site initiatives.
  • Ability to deliver results by working with matrix teams including Pick/Pack, ICQA, Fleet, HR, and Safety, and build trust with AGMs to enable ownership rather than direct oversight.
  • Adeptness with instant messenger-style software such as Slack, and ability to present recommendations using spreadsheets, presentations, and related data systems.
  • Experience owning labor budgets, overtime, and P&L-adjacent delivery metrics.

Responsibilities

  • Own the complete delivery outcome for the Moonachie warehouse across Day and Night shifts, including fleet, personal and food safety, delivery success, on-time performance, dispatch reliability, driver productivity, and customer delivery experience.
  • Support and back up the Senior General Manager in their absence, and share P&L ownership to deliver OPEX and EBITDA targets.
  • Own the driver safety and training function, with Trainers reporting to the role; partner with HR, Safety, and Training to improve training design and delivery.
  • Develop a comprehensive driver training strategy that extends beyond onboarding to include ongoing observation and retraining.
  • Project-manage key safety initiatives and own the site strategy to reduce total recordable incident rate and vehicle incident rate in delivery teams.
  • Own telematics and violations compliance in partnership with the Fleet Lead.
  • Own the delivery scorecard across Day and Night operations, translating annual objectives into strategies executed through the Day and Night AGMs; propose improvements, secure AGM buy-in, and hold both shifts accountable for delivery success, on-time dispatch, and productivity results.
  • Review capital expenditure proposals for fleet and equipment with the Fleet Lead and Senior General Manager.
  • Work with Delivery AGMs to ensure shift-level staffing plans are sufficient, manage overtime within pre-defined budgets, and escalate proposed staffing changes to the Senior General Manager for approval.
  • Develop and implement the warehouse Food Safety program, including MSS execution and a cold-chain improvement strategy, partnering with ICQA and Inbound leadership on execution, compliance, and auditing standards.
  • Lead delivery-focused initiatives such as scan-at-delivery and the Burq pilot from planning through execution, and represent the site in network-level delivery strategy and technology direction.
  • Own routing standards, configuration and parameter governance, scenario testing and optimization roadmap, vendor and tool relationships, and improvements to routing processes.
  • Model servant leadership toward Delivery AGMs, enabling them to own objectives rather than exercising direct floor oversight during overlap shifts.
  • Use a mentoring and modeling approach in after-action reviews rather than real-time correction, except for safety, compliance, and food safety matters where immediate coaching is expected to prevent injury or accidents.
  • Own continuous improvement for delivery operations by identifying and diagnosing upstream issues affecting performance, developing root-cause proposals, and assembling and leading cross-functional project teams to resolve issues.
  • Escalate proposed changes to the single-threaded owner model, issues affecting another function’s service-level agreements, and network-facing commitments to the Senior General Manager.
  • Identify critical tasks without scheduled coverage and provide Delivery AGM team coverage for leadership, routing, audits, training, and other tasks.
  • Hold recurring delivery-specific staff meetings to review metric performance and align on deliverables and support needed for improvement.
  • Communicate cross-functionally about key initiatives, escalations, and operational issues, and immediately escalate OSHA recordables, major customer service failures, cold-chain excursions above threshold, and safety incidents.

Desired Qualifications

  • OSHA, DOT, or other relevant safety certifications.

About the Company

Odeko

Streamlines cafe orders and vendor management

Odeko provides an all-in-one, subscription-based dashboard that helps small to mid-sized food and beverage businesses, especially independent coffee shops, place orders and manage multiple suppliers from one interface, while consolidating deliveries to save time and reduce emissions. The dashboard connects shops with suppliers and delivery options, allowing users to place orders, track shipments, and manage vendors and bulk purchasing through a single platform. Unlike traditional distributors, Odeko focuses on resource-constrained independents and offers measurable benefits such as time savings, cost reductions, and a significant drop in carbon emissions from delivery consolidation and scale. Its goal is to empower small food and beverage businesses to operate more efficiently, sustainably, and profitably through a centralized, easy-to-use platform.

Company size
201-500
Company stage
Debt Financing
Total funding
$399.1M
Headquarters
New York City, New York
Founded
2019

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