Warehouse and Distribution Manager

2 weeks ago

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa Recruitment Matters Africa Full time
Lead, manage and coordinate all activities within the warehouse facility at the client site.

The Warehouse & Distribution Manager is responsible for overseeing team performance, maintaining operations in line with regulatory and customer standards, and ensuring efficient, organised storage.

The incumbent should strive to streamline warehouse and distribution activities in order to improve on the achievement of operational targets and ultimately improve customer satisfaction.


Responsibilities

  • Ensure compliance with standard and emergency operating procedures for receiving, handling, storing and dispatching stock
  • Manage the warehouse and distribution team to optimise the trucking and warehousing costs
  • Deliver against the Operational Budget for the Warehousing and Distribution areas.
  • Manage warehousing and distribution department costs against budget, initiating corrective action as necessary
  • Assist in assessing warehousing and distribution needs and performance
  • Recruitment, selection, orientation, training and development of warehouse staff
  • Development and implementation of individual performance scorecards
  • Maintain and enhance professional and technical knowledge
  • To ensure that personal behavior reflects the values of the company
  • Prepare relevant correspondence, reports and manuals covering operations, maintenance, safety and security
  • Coordinate warehousing and distribution activities through liaison with procurement, inventory planning, and sales
  • Ensure the timely and accurate completion of receiving documentation and adherence to receiving procedures
  • Minimize time and cost associated with container unloading
  • Ensure that goods are safely and securely stored, including management of stock health / rotation
  • Ensure adherence to safe materials handling practices
  • Assess requirement for additional temporary storage, whether containers or third party warehouses. Assist in planning, rate and service negotiation
  • In conjunction with the Depot Manager, optimize fleet composition, utilization and routing to best meet agreed service levels and customer requirements at lowest total cost
  • Minimize failed and/or rejected orders by ensuring adherence to delivery time
  • Ensure that service levels are maintained during peak periods and / or in the event of vehicle or equipment failure
  • Assist the Depot Manager in planning, rate and service negotiation, and scheduling with third party transporters, including accurate estimation of transport requirements and load / cost optimization
  • Maintain the physical condition of the warehouse, vehicle fleets and equipment through planned testing, maintenance, repair

Key Skills

  • Able to build and maintain strong working relationships,
  • Excellent communication skills,
  • Accuracy and attention to detail,
  • Displays a concern for business values and ethical standards,
  • High sense of confidentiality,
  • Passion for achieving excellence,
  • Sets high personal standards, is focused and selfmotivated,
  • Valid driver's license,
  • Ability to work in a high pressured environment,
  • Understanding of Warehouse and Distribution terminology (warehouse geography, put away, picking sequence, payloads, drops, RF scanning etc,
  • Knowledge of Syspro/WMS system and computer literate,
  • Excellent customer service attitude,
  • Attention to detail essential which will include accuracy and speed in execution,

Qualifications

  • Relevant Degree/Diploma would be advantageous
years' management experience working within a FMCG or wholesale and retail environment

  • Knowledge of health and safety requirements in an FMCG or wholesale and retail environment
  • People leadership and management including planning, organizing, control, staffing
  • Numerical/ statistical analysis skills
  • Good understanding of supply chain processes
  • Excel: Intermediate to advanced skills

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