Inventory Manager

**Position Summary**:
**Industry**:Pharmaceutical Sector
- **Job category**:Other: FMCG, Retail, Wholesale and Supply Chain**Location**:Roodepoort
- **Contract**:Permanent**Remuneration**:Market Related
- **EE position**:Yes**Brand**:Clicks Group**Introduction**:
We are looking to recruit a permanent Inventory Manager to work within the Operations department of United Pharmaceutical Distributors. The role will be based at UPD Roodepoort (Rand Lease) branch and will report to the Operations Manager: Distributions.

**Job description**:
**Job Purpose**:

- Responsible for the effective and accurate management and control of inventory within the warehouse ensuring good corporate governance is applied, analysing the movement of stock and stock adjustments to ensure financial and operation effectiveness protecting the inventory from damage, loss and theft.

**Job Objectives**:

- To effectively manage and control inventory systems and processes, as well as reports according to set deadlines
- Effectively manage stock returns process, credit processing for shorts and picking errors, and returned goods put away.
- To manage destruction process.
- To ensure the accurate valuation and count of inventory through, bin checks, cycle count analysis, investigation of variances and accurate stock takes
- Investigate deviations between actual stock and the system to analyse shrinkage in the business.
- To ensure the accurate valuation and reporting of shrinkage.
- Keeping inventory control systems up to date and plan future capacity requirements
- Resolution of suspended lines in accordance with requirements, manage stock obsolescence and redundancy in line with requirement
- To provide Inventory specific financial information as and when required and review standard and actual costs for inaccuracies
- To ensure proper let downs, replenishment and assist picking strategies to ensure low level picks. Including setup dynamic bins on top 200.
- The achievement of budgeted and agreed financial targets
- To control and ensure accountability for damage and poor maintenance of company assets (scanners, machines, racking, etc.)
- To analyse, interpret and report business information in order to facilitate process improvement and improved financial performance
- To engage, network and communicate with internal and external stakeholders, principals and customers to ensure swift query resolution and ensure improved business performance
- To lead and direct the department to achieve consistent process compliance and adherence to all relevant company SOPs, cut-offs and daily reports
- To ensure effective utilisation of all people resources to drive productivity to targets
- To ensure weekly meetings with labour brokers to address poor performance, damage to property and or stock, short supply of labour, scheduling issues and control and approval of costs
- Ensuring CRM resolutions within the 15 day period.
- Complete deviations and CAPA's for Inventory related issues.
- Close working relationship with other Department Managers ensuring goals of distribution department are met.

**Minimum requirements**:
**Qualification Required**:

- Matric
- Degree/diploma in Warehousing / Transport/ Distribution/ FMCG/ Supply Chain/ Logistics - **Essential**

**Job Experience**:

- Essential: 3 years’ experience in receiving, inventory, order assembly, checking and dispatching
- 3 Years People /Industrial relationship management (**Desirable**)
- Risk control management

**Job Related Skills**
- Good people management skills
- Ability to motivate staff
- Computer skills
- Delegate work efficiently
- Teamwork ability
- Conflict and Dispute management skills
- Communications skills
- Analytical management skills
- Excellent communications skills and telephone etiquette

**Job Related Knowledge**:

- Good Knowledge of warehouse operational procedures.
- Knowledge of industrial relation management
- Knowledge of Pharmaceutical industry
- Knowledge of GWP/GDP
- Knowledge of SAP
- Knowledge of IR/HR Processes and Procedures

**Job Related Competencies**
- Leading and Supervising
- Delivering Results and Meeting Customer Expectations
- Deciding and Initiating Action
- Planning and Organising
- Coping with Pressures and Setbacks