Operations and Inventory Lead

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At DHL Supply Chain South Africa we’re looking for…

Vacancy

Operations and Inventory Lead

Business Overview

This is a busy, fast paced operation which offers many challenges and opportunities for the right person. This position is based at DSC Heineken Boksburg

Role Outline

To ensure a high quality of Stock Control within the operation and keep stock loss to a minimal. To ensure the procedures pertaining to all functions within the Stock Control department of the Distribution Centre is carried out with the utmost professionalism to ensure smooth transition between principals and the Company. To continuously strive to improve the physical inventory process.. Providing leadership, motivation, training and development of the workplace, executing against customer requirements, operational performance and "making DHL a great place to work".

Key areas of responsibility include:

• Consistently achieve established key performance indicators for productivity, accuracy and housekeeping.
• Drive and develop team culture.
  
  
  

Encourage and reward constructive internal competitiveness to the benefit of client, DHL and individual employees.

• To ensure stock losses are minimized
• Compliance with statutory, company policies and procedures with management team to ensure compliance on:
  
  
  

Health and Safety

Employment Equity

Labour relations

Legislative

Environmental issues

Including regular monitoring to ensure these areas are maintained at a high level of compliance.

• Through a principled, professional approach ensure and co-ordinate interaction with the Client and Customers in order to achieve a maximum benefit to all.
• Human Resources
  
  
  

Ensure appropriate staffing levels to meet business needs

Ensure high level of competence in staff

Manage Industrial relations by ensuring that appropriate disciplinary actions is taken.

Performance management

Training and development

Employee productivity

Recruitment and retention of staff.

• Change Management
• Delivery of KPI's (Key Performance Indicators)
• Budget Management
• Daily monitoring of stock procedures.
• Team Building and Moral Management
• Ensure compliance to SOP's (Standard Operating Procedures)
• Liaise with clients on stock control issues.
• Translate, analyze and deliver customer needs through effective operations
• Ensure daily or weekly workload planning and volume forecasting routines are accomplished
• Investigate all stock losses and adjustments.
• Compile and submit relevant reports and statistics to Senior Management on a daily, weekly / monthly basis.
• Assist in the preparation of and control of direct expenses budget by investigating variances with a focus on overtime and other variable costs {stock losses}
• Ensure accurate inventory administration of all aspects of the warehouse.
• Full responsibility of stock take i.e. Planning, preparation and physical counting of stock
• Ensure Maintenance of product traceability
• Establish control system for maintenance of stock
• Maintain appropriate information / reporting systems to monitor Depot performance on an ongoing basis
  
  
  

Qualifications And Experience

Matric

Educated to university degree level or equivalent professional qualifications in conjunction with relevant experience

3-5 years experience of working in Warehouse/Logistics environment

2-3 years experience in a managerial role

Knowledge of logistics market trends, opportunities and challenges

Commercial breadth, i.e. general management experience

Sound knowledge and understanding of a PC and the inherent controls. Proficiency in Windows, Excel, Word, Power Point and SAP.

Good understanding of distribution and transport methods

Skills And Competencies

Envisioned powerful strategies and goals to support all three bottom lines, broke ambitious goals down into tangible ones, empowered people and the organization to achieve them;

Good written and communication skills and understand basic arithmetical principles

Good understanding of quality as a key value

Knowledge of clients requirements and customer needs

React to customers in a courteous and professional manner and maintain at the highest level

Operational knowledge and understanding of service delivery

Person should be able to propose different solutions to problems - must be able to act of their own without being urged to do so

Awareness of importance of security

Able to enforce health and safety procedures and identify hazards

Know What Products Are Handled By The Company

Ability to co-ordinate all staff and assets in warehouse department

Communicated strategies and goals clearly, fully equipped and supported people to work towards them, and regularly reviewed progress against them;

Ensured sustainability of results and consideration of people involved in and impacted by the organization;

Understood and used the strengths of the organization and its people, allocated tasks based on strengths, provided continuous and specific feedback, and supported personal and career development;

Made strengths and success visible, recognized and rewarded individual and team achievements;

Did not deny own and others‘ mistakes and weaknesses but worked around them successfully;

Created a sense of purpose in what the organization does, and brought people together to achieve a common goal (‘Connecting people, improving lives‘);

Explained the rationale why something has to be done and provided context and dependencies so that everyone could contribute to the overall success;

Inspired others by showing them a purpose in their work and making their job meaningful to them;

Nurtured mutual trust, promoted reliability, fairness and openness for close collaboration and a strong corporate community;

Promoted ‘walking the talk‘, took actions against the misuse of trust, and managed to rebuild trust;

Trusted the expertise of others, encouraged critical questions, and valued working with all different kinds of people;

Maintained the number of priorities at a level which could be executed effectively and focused work and resources around them;

Encouraged skipping of non-priority topics and reduced complexity so that everyone could work in a focused way

Ensured that everyone knew the core business and the strategy in order to set the right priorities in their daily work

Saw challenges as opportunities, sustained a positive attitude and enabled others to be constructive and solution oriented

Motivated others to be innovative and entrepreneurial and took on controlled risks

Gave confidence when facing uncertainty, motivated to stand up again when things went wrong, and encouraged others to be open for change

Languages

English - verbal and written.