Job Description

Job Purpose

Responsible for a warehouse, their teams output, resource planning, and administrative activities.

Responsibilities

Manage the operations.

• Manage activities related to receipting.
• Manage activities related to testing.
• Manage activities related to stocking.
• Manage activities related to picking and dispatching.

Ordering

• Liaise with Buyers on ordering of non-production items.
• Create Requisitions for maintenance, services, and non-production items for their area of responsibility.

Administration

• Generate monthly inventory reports and maintaining accurate records.
• Control perpetual inventory stock counting and accuracy checks and investigates discrepancies and shortages to minimize overstocks and remove redundant and obsolete raw materials.
• Perform regular cycle counts and assists in conducting yearly physical inventory counts.
• Review, authorize and implement SOPs and systems to ensure compliance.

Organizational strategy, vision & values

• Ensure that the vision and mission of the department/ organization is visible in the activities of the team.

Planning & policy development/ Planning & processes

• Assess production needs and operational requirements against warehouse operating plan/ s.
• Execute and enforce adherence to policies and procedures.
• Inform the immediate superior of internal and external issues that may affect the team to deliver on their mandate.

Financial management

• Provide input to departmental leaders of operational requirements for budgetary purposes.
• Manage the budget, as delegated by the immediate superior.

People Management

• Provide staff with day-to-day direction and tasks, in alignment with departmental procedures.
• Manage staff in relation to overtime, absenteeism and IR matters.

Governance, risk & compliance

• Provide input to departmental leaders for improvement of risk-based compliance systems.

Skills Required

Background/experience

• 3 5 years experience in Logistics
• Minimum of a Bachelors Degree/ Diploma in Logistics or similar

Specific job skills

• Logistics Management
• ERP (BAAN) knowledge
• In depth inventory management knowledge
• People management skills.

Competencies

• Interrogating Information
• Planning and Organizing
• Meeting Deadlines

Aspen Pharmacare