Inventory Shift Manager

7 months ago

Cape Town, South Africa takealot.com Full time

We are a young, dynamic, hyper growth company looking for smart, creative, hardworking people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related, Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs, a great work environment and a promise that you won't be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.

This role requires a highly analytical, talented self-starter with a solid understanding of data and Inventory Management strategies to maximize customer experience, sales, margin and turns, as well as end to end business ownership of all supply chain processes.

**This position reports to the Department Manager**:
**In this role you will**:

- Manage and ensure that Inventory is well organised and controlled to sufficiently support production and the goals of the business
- Implement improvement processes and maintain policies and procedures and systems to minimise costs and maximize working capital
- Ensuring optimal house keeping levels
- Implement and maintain 5S systems
- Manage and implement the Company Policies & Procedures within the Inventory department and ensure that they is strictly adhered to
- Manage stock takes, cycle counts, replenishment
- Ensure stock accuracy
- Control Pick fails & stock investigations
- Supervise stock movements
- Daily deal stock management
- Drive process improvement through data driven decisions
- Manage and implement inventory management strategies
- Optimize the customer experience by ensuring the right product quantities, in the right places, at the right time
- Perform audits of inventory management-related tools and systems ensuring settings are correct and optimized. Automate whenever possible
- Take ownership of all aspects of inventory reporting for the company: develop the inventory planning model, plan product transitions and inventory exposure
- Produce daily reports to ensure key critical areas of the inventory processes are controlled
- Effective leadership and direction for the operations team through involvement and communication to deliver on the relevant key business drivers
- Measure and manage staff through formal staff appraisals, development, coaching and disciplinary procedures
- Conform to all Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) standards and legislation as set out by the business and the OHS Act
- Drive continuous improvement measures within your department

**Qualifications and Attributes**:

- Grade 12 and,
- Relevant Inventory qualification
- 5-10 years previous experience the Logistics, Supply Chain, Warehousing and Distribution environment.
- 2+ years in a management role would be advantageous
- Organized and detailed oriented with proven experience of managing inventory
- A Self
- starter who is tenacious at identifying and resolving challenges
- Passionate about customer service within the supply chain environment
- Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, MS Access and PowerPoint)
- Experience creating and setting annual operating plans and presenting to Senior Management
- Have a detailed understanding of inventory control / warehouse management systems (including reverse logistics)
- Strong analytical and problem solving skills
- Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills for a demanding and customer focused working environment.
- Possess excellent personal organisation and business administration skills in accordance with modern best practice methods.
- Possess the ability to work productively, efficiently & effectively with initiative and drive under tight timescales and pressure whilst maintaining attention to detail and quality.
- Possess the willingness to learn, improve and adapt.
- Good team player, hard worker, willing to be flexible with a positive attitude
- Must be able to work as part of a multi-cultural team

**The Environment**:

- We have fun, work hard, take ownership, work in teams to create solutions, and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
- We are short on ego and high on output.
- We are doers and not only thinkers, it's all in the execution after all.
- We love what we do and what we are creating.

We seek to Employ an **Extra Ordinary Mind** who:

- is respectful but forthright
- is an expert at doing, who can not only design but also execute
- is analytical, able to use data to make decisions
- is competitive, self-directed and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours
- is **passionate about the potential of e-commerce** and delivering a **world-class customer experience**:

- is **entrepreneurial**, **thrives under change** and accepts it is a constant and always **looks for solutions** to do something better and faster
- is business SMART. Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input;
- is curious and challenge the status quo
- is innovative and enjoys iteration
- is collaborative
- **thinks l

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