Warehouse Operations Manager at Seven Up Bottling Company

About the job

• General overseeing of warehouse end-to-end operations including but not limited to, ensuring customer order fulfillment by the efficient receipt, storage, value-adding servicing, and dispatch of a wide variety of products

Responsibilities

• Strategically manage warehouse operations in compliance with SBC’s policies.
• Initiate, coordinate, enforce, and review optimal operational policies and procedures.
• Oversee Just-In-Time delivery of packaging, raw and other materials.
• Manage day-to-day warehouse operations involved in product handling, storage solutions, loading and unloading, schedule of operations, and delivery of items
• Develop and implement and maintain clear and scalable warehousing strategy and control procedures to support the growth of the business.
• Monitoring inventory levels to gauge restocking needs.
• Management and reconciliation of stock.
• Carry out regular stock takes and report on results.
• Initiating and implementing cost reduction initiatives.
• Design and implement an inventory tracking system to

Essential Desired

• Minimum of a Bachelor's degree, preferably in logistics, supply chain management, supply chain management or social sciences.
• Minimum of 6 years experience
• Hands-on experience with warehouse management software and databases

Key Competencies / Skills

• Generic Functional
• Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Numerical Proficiency: Ability to access, use, interpret and communicate mathematical information and ideas quickly
• Stakeholder Management: Ability to engage with optimizing inventory control procedures; FIFO and LIFO, shelving principles etc.
• Responsible for investigating stock discrepancies, including negatives, unfound and sold out, overages and reporting the information to GM, Sourcing & Warehousing, Finance
• Responsible for inventory checks being in place (cycle count schedule)
• Ensuring stock variance at monthly stock count do not exceed 1%.
• Prepare detailed reports on inventory operations, stock levels, and adjustments, ensuring timely circulation to management monthly.
• Create forecasts on product volume to ensure that the warehouse is capable of housing the high volume of goods levels.