Operations and Inventory Lead needed at DHL Supply Chain

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