Western Cape: Warehouse Manager posted by The Talent Room

Duties & Responsibilities

• Proactively seeks out new opportunities to reduce warehousing costs.
• Effectively manages raw material, finished goods and consignment stock.
• Conducts monthly stock take to ensure stock levels remain at optimum levels.
• Implement 5s and GMP systems.
• Identifies and implements practical, user-friendly systems to assist with OTIF deliveries and stock control.
• Tenaciously follows through on opportunities to improve how to store and distribute to customers.
• Collaborate effectively as part of a team to deliver customer commitments.
• Evaluates and reports on progress against targets and provides solutions to problems or obstacles that may arise.
• Plans and organizes the smooth integration between production and distribution.
• Manages a team of logistics and warehouse staff.

Role Requirements: 

Education & Qualifications

• Holds a degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, Operations Management, or Industrial Engineering.
• Demonstrates a proven track record of at least five years in warehousing/stock control including at least two years in a management role.

Technical Skills

• Demonstrates strong systems aptitude and ability to think on their feet.
• Utilises advanced computer literacy, including Excel (pivot tables and advanced features).
• Manages export and import containerised loading and destuffing, adhering to internationally accepted shipping criteria
• Experience in working with and optimising ERP systems, preferably Syspro, to extract information and improve stock management and customer delivery turnaround time.
• Experience in optimising warehouse layout to reduce wasteful movement of stock and establish stock kanban systems.
• Experienced in warehousing in a GMP-controlled environment (food/ product safety) will be an advantage.
• Demonstrates strong numeracy skills for accurate working-capital management and stock control.

Management & Leadership

• Demonstrates strong leadership ability with examples of taking ownership and leading a team effectively in challenging environments.
• Demonstrates strong management skills.
• Experienced in managing shift work in a unionised environment.
• Experienced in process improvements and change management, and guides teams through such challenges.
• Negotiate confidently and assertively to challenge and improve best practices.
• Shows initiative and continuously seeks innovative ways to identify cost-effective solutions that deliver customer expectations.

Interpersonal competencies

• Demonstrates strong planning and organising skills.
• Build strong relationships and communicate effectively at all levels, contributing actively to team success.
• Ability to communicate effectively with stakeholders.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills.
• Is goal-oriented and proactively seeks better ways to manage stock and deliver OTIF results to customers.
• Follows up tenaciously on leads and opportunities to secure a competitive advantage.