Company Overview
Riverstone Logistics (RLX) is a big and bulky supply chain powerhouse delivering seamless final mile, middle mile, warehousing, fulfillment, and storage solutions through a nationally integrated platform. Founded in 2017 by five partners who believed logistics could be built around something bigger than moving freight, we began with furniture delivery and grew into a nationwide provider serving complex supply chains across the United States.
We are a purpose-driven company. We exist to use our God-given talents and opportunities to love our neighbors, serve our communities, and improve our industry. That purpose shapes how we lead our teams, how we partner with our customers, and how we take ownership of every delivery. Our people, who we call Extra Milers, bring genuine integrity and care to every mile. If you lead well, communicate with clarity, and want your work to mean something, we want to meet you. If youre looking for a place where people genuinely matter, youve found it.
Position Summary
The General Manager leads a client-based profit center with full accountability for team performance, operational execution, and financial results. First and foremost this role is a people leader - responsible for building, developing, and retaining a high-performing team that delivers exceptional service and drives results. The GM sets the tone for culture, accountability, and engagement within the operation. They coach leaders, establish clear expectations, and create an environment where Extra Milers can perform at their best. Strong people leadership is equally as important as operational discipline.
In addition to developing talent, the General Manager owns the client relationship at the local level and is accountable for meeting service, quality, and financial benchmarks. Our GMs are not just operators - they are business leaders who balance labor efficiency, cost management, and process execution with intentional leadership and team development to ensure long-term profitability and growth.
Competencies
- Ethics and Values
- Problem solving
- Customer focus
- Drive for results
- Conflict resolution
- Functional/technical skills
- Managing & measuring work
- Timely decision making
- Developing direct reports & others
- Delegation
- Motivating others
- Organizing
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
The essential functions include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Driving and maintaining the Company culture, purpose, and core beliefs through hands-on training, effective onboarding, and selection of new Extra Milers within the location.
- Managing all people and operations leaders assigned to the local operation to ensure deliverables, business goals, and profitability are achieved in a timely and cost-effective manner.
- Responsible for consistently meeting and exceeding client service goals.
- Responsible for leading the profit center through change, whether internal or external, and ensuring continuity in communication around expectations.
- Oversight and accountability for weekly operator settlements based on set agreements, to include back charge process and supplementation assessments.
- Maintaining a professional appearance always while setting an example for employees alike.
- Ensure daily stand-ups with service providers and team are conducted consistently, ensuring performance rankings are accurate and updated daily following standard Company operating procedures.
- Accountable for ensuring employee and provider adherence to prescribed dress code and uniform requirements.
- Ensuring measurement and effectiveness of all internal and external processes, providing timely, accurate, and complete reports on the operating condition of the Company.
- Ensures the implementation and maintenance of Lean warehouse principles.
- Representing the Company by maintaining relationships with clients and ensuring contractual and ongoing relationships.
- Maintaining the upkeep and maintenance of all assigned assets, both from RLX and the client.
- Ensuring standards for quality, client expectations, and operator performance are maintained and that cost-effective technology and processes are utilized to maximize productivity and profitability.
- Ensuring successful compliance and performance of all vendors and service providers.
- Developing, monitoring, and reporting operating costs within functional areas, alerting Senior Leadership of cost and labor overrun, recommending and implementing solutions to problems.
- Advising managers on labor issues including safety, security, employee relations, scheduling, training, grievances and the like, ensuring managers and supervisors comply with company policies and administer practices in a fair and equitable manner.
- Managing and maintaining budget and controls/expenses.
- Hiring, training, developing, and appraising staff effectively, taking corrective action as necessary on a timely basis and in accordance with company policies.
- Maintain a respectful and professional relationship with all vendors and service providers.
- Performing other work-related duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
- Bachelors degree in a relevant field of study or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Minimum of 5-7 years of warehouse, distribution, and/or supply chain operations with at least 3 years of managerial experience.
- Must be proficient in Microsoft Office suite, including Excel.
- Ability to complete work in a timely, accurate, and thorough manner.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills.
- Ability to exhibit a professional manner when dealing with conflict.
- Ability to coach and develop employees.
- Must have reliable transportation to commute to the workplace and attend client meetings as necessary. This may involve traveling to various locations within the specific region for the client.
Physical Demands and Work Environment
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully