Product Data Specialist

As our Product Data Specialist, you'll play a vital role in ensuring smooth operations throughout the year, with a particular focus on maximizing efficiency during our busy seasons. You will coordinate, monitor, and review production documents to guarantee complete, accurate, and documented data. Effective communication and collaboration with colleagues at both the plant and corporate level will be key to your success.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The responsibilities of the position include the following:

• Assist with creating and maintaining standardized shipping documents, keeping them updated for each season. Work with plant shippers to edit as needed, you'll also ensure consistent pallet/tote and shipment sequences across all locations.
• All documentation will be meticulously maintained, with both active and archived files readily accessible on OneDrive.
• Responsible for training Shipping Supervisors in all aspects of Silver Bay shipping procedures. Assist with training other plant shipping staff as needed.
• Responsible for Full Container Load (FCL) daily shipments to our processing facilities in Alaska. This includes fact-checking, verifying data, resolving any discrepancies with plants, and ensuring everything flows smoothly within the VMS system.
• Daily paperwork and BOL correction emails will keep everyone informed.
• Utilize the IMS system to monitor inventory records across various stages (Blank, Data Entry, Submitted) and eliminate false records that could skew auto-generated reports.
• Keep van records clean and organized, ensuring accurate inventory data at all times.
• Stay proactive in identifying glitches and suggesting fixes for the IMS/VMS programs. This may involve developing reports and even implementing inventory batch edits as needed.
• Travel to our plants will be required to provide training, monitor implementation of new procedures, and troubleshoot any issues that arise. Your solutions will be instrumental in continuously improving our processes.
• Keep your immediate supervisor and internal partners informed about your progress, including potential roadblocks and suggestions for improvement.
• Embrace New Challenges, be prepared for additional duties as assigned.

Competencies

To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following functional and interpersonal competencies:

Functional

• Experience working in high-volume, fast paced environment required. The ability to adapt and excel when business plans change. Ability to remain calm in extremely stressful situations is a high priority.
• Attention to detail- You can prioritize tasks, work with a sense of urgency, and yet leave nothing to chance. Be able to factor in every piece of information that will lead to improved processes and reduced cost.
• Sense of urgency around time-sensitive tasks with excellent organizational and planning skills; ability to multitask.
• Strong Analytical thinking - analytical skills are critical for logistics product data specialist, you must study data and compile it into clear, concise reports.

Interpersonal

• Emotional Intelligence (EQ) – The ability to recognize and understand emotions in oneself and others. This ability also involves using this emotional understanding to make decisions, solve problems, and communicate with others.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with ability to professionally interact with a diverse blend of personality types at all levels of the organization. You enjoy building relationships, and you have a strong focus on customers.
• An assertive, proactive, innovative, creative personality with the high physical and intellectual energy necessary to achieve success, whilst showing confidence.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in management, Business, Logistics, or related field preferred but not required.
• 3+ years in seafood production experience preferred.
• Intermediate skills in Microsoft Office applications, especially Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc.
• Experience communicating with internal and external suppliers.
• A proven track record of creating, editing, and maintaining procedural documentation is desired.

Work Environment and Schedule

Position requires onsite presence at our Alaska Processing Facility, and the ability to travel, spending a significant amount of time during the season at our various locations and processing facilities in Alaska.

Physical Demands

While performing the essential function and job duties associated with the job, the employee is regularly required to sit, handle, or feel and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds.

Mental Activities

The employee is frequently required to set an example by consistently modeling high standards of honesty and integrity. Presentation and sharing of information should be handled in a direct, appropriate, and helpful manner. Maintains a reputation for honesty, confidentiality, reliability, and fairness. Is willing to admit mistakes and does not misrepresent him/herself for personal gain. Performs work with energy and drive; values planning, but will take quick, decisive action when an opportunity presents itself.

Silver Bay Benefits and Perks

• Health Insurance: Employees, as well as their families, are eligible for health benefits that include medical, dental and vision benefits. Employees are also eligible for basic life insurance, long-term disability, as well as voluntary life insurance benefits for them and their families.
• Employee Assistance Program: Available for employees and their families. 
• Retirement Plan: Employees are eligible for the Silver Bay Seafoods safe harbor retirement 401(k) plan.
• Other Compensation: Employees are eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.

Silver Bay Seafoods is equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, political affiliation, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances.

If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to humanresources@silverbayseafoods.com.