Depot Manager

Our client is looking for a experienced Depot Manager to join and manage a dynamic team.

**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, working in
- alignment with Linbro and Printers Way Distribution Centres and various outsourced Primary Transport Service Providers including the outsourced partner CONCARGO Pty Ltd.
- 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
- Assist in the recruitment, selection, orientation, training and development of warehouse staff
- Assist in the development and implementation of individual performance scorecards
- Maintain and enhance professional and technical knowledge
- To ensure that personal behavior reflects the Rialto values
- Prepare relevant correspondence, reports and manuals covering operations, maintenance, safety and security
- Co-ordinate warehousing and distribution activities through liaison with procurement, inventory planning, production, 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, allergen management,
- Ensure adherence to safe materials handling practices
- Constantly monitor stock health and ensure adherence to stock rotation policies
- Assess requirement for additional temporary storage, whether containers or third party warehouses. Assist in planning, rate and service negotiation
- Optimize fleet composition, utilization and routing to best meet agreed service levels and customer requirements at lowest total cost
- Analyze routes and customers serviced and report on the viability of such service
- Minimize failed and/or rejected orders by ensuring adherence to delivery time and remaining shelf life requirements
- Track and analyze reverse logistics requirements at lowest possible cost
- Estimate peak delivery periods from available information
- Ensure that service levels are maintained during peak periods and / or in the event of vehicle or equipmen failure
- Assist in managing replenishment of product at third party distribution providers
- Assist 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 warehouses, vehicle fleets and equipment through planned testing, maintenance, repair and replacement

**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 self-motivated
- 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
- 5 - 10 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

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent

**Education**:

- Bachelors (required)

**Experience**:

- management: 10 years (required)