Inventory Manager

**REQUIREMENTS**:

- Tertiary qualification in Production Management or any similar qualification
- 5 years of experience in a similar position with at least 3years in managing a team
- Knowledge within the Hardware or Retail sector would be advantageous.
- Knowledge of IQ Retail System would be advantageous.

**RESPONSIBILITIES**:
**Planning**:

- Liaise with Operations Manager re current projections vs. actual sales.
- Review/ adjust monthly Planning Schedule & Weekly Plans.
- Conduct weekly Production Meeting at Conversion & Daily Production meeting Extrusion, identify and action optimum programme to execute planned requirements.
- Discover trends in market demand vs. stock, on hand (Finished, WIP, Raw and Packaging), identify potential shortfalls, recommend remedial action.
- Review plant availability (condition, planned maintenance, schedule, etc).

**Organizing (Shift Initiation)**:

- Review throughput requirement for shift.
- Ensure all production inputs and resources are in place (Staff, machines, materials, dies, weighing scales).

**Controlling (Production)**:

- Plant & People declared safe to operate at start-up.
- Monitor production flow ito. Plant performance, compliance with safety and health standards, quality, and best-practice requirements.
- Identify deviations from required standards and their causes, initiate corrective action.
- Monitor production flow ito. Plant performance, compliance with safety and health standards, quality, and best-practice requirements.
- Identify deviations from required standards and their causes, initiate corrective action.
- Ensure optimum Control Room & Operator liaison - discover and address gaps.
- Monitor material batches, discover/ address nonconformances.
- Identify and mitigate potential hazards.
- Ensure physical security of negotiable items (products, etc).
- Oversee Process changes according to varying operating conditions - oversee manual interventions - log such changes and recommend changes.

**Documentation**:

- Produce reports on variable elements related to production e.g. daily/weekly production, maintenance, safety.
- Input production data into system (BOM).
- Produce statutory records as required.
- Ensure availability of documents.
- Procuring of Local Buyouts.

**Leadership**:

- Select and appoint team members.
- Enable delivery capacity of team members through training, communication and setting clear performance standards.
- Implement a performance-enabling environment through working conditions, feedback on actual delivery, support, recognition and reward, fostering teamwork, fairness and other best-practice leadership processes.
- Discover sources of workplace conflict and resolve proactively.

**SKILLS**:

- Microsoft Package
- Other Software Packages
- IT Skills
- Numeracy
- Business Acumen
- Relationship Building