Depot Manager

**Overview of the job**:
The position will be responsible for leading, managing and coordinating all activities within the warehouse facility of the company. The role is responsible for overseeing team performance, maintaining operations in line with regulatory and customer standards, and ensuring efficient, organised storage. The Depot Manager should strive to streamline warehouse and distribution activities in order to improve the achievement of operational targets and ultimately improve customer satisfaction.

**Key Job Functions**:
**Management and leadership**:

- 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 company 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

**Manage the receiving process**:

- Ensure the timely and accurate completion of receiving documentation and adherence to receiving procedures
- Minimize time and cost associated with container unloading

**Manage the storage and materials handling process**:

- 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

**Manage the distribution process**:

- 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 equipment 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

**Maintenace, housekeeping and repairs**:

- Maintain the physical condition of warehouses, vehicle fleets and equipment through planned testing, maintenance, repair and replacement.

**Knowledge and Experience Required**:

- 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

**Skills and Attitude Required**:

- 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.

**Key Competencies**:

- Managing Others/Leadership Ability
- Adapting to Change
- Quality Delivery
- Interpersonal Relations
- Planning and organising
- Analysing and Reporting
- Taking Initiative
- Decision Mak