Key Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
Stock Management:
- Oversee and manage stock levels across several branches, ensuring optimal balance between supply and demand to prevent overstocking or understocking.
- Ensure accurate records of stock movements, updating the inventory management system, and tracking stock from receipt to dispatch.
Stock Audits:
- Conduct regular physical stock counts and reconcile discrepancies between system records and actual stock.
- Maintain orderly storage, with periodic travel to branches for stock audits.
Purchasing:
- Monitor and manage reorder and purchase orders to maintain adequate stock levels.
Receiving & Dispatch:
- Coordinate with suppliers to manage receiving and dispatch of goods, ensuring accuracy in deliveries and shipments, both local and overseas.
- Create new items, calculate and verify product costs and sales prices.
Manufacturing Orders:
- Work with the factory to manage the receiving and dispatch of goods, ensuring accuracy in deliveries and outgoing shipments.
- Create new items, calculate and update costs and sales prices for factory products.
Stock Rotation:
- Enforce stock rotation procedures to minimize product obsolescence or expiration.
Reporting:
- Generate regular reports on inventory levels, stock variances, and key performance indicators (KPIs) for management.
Branch & Parts Reordering:
- Run monthly reordering reports for the parts department and coordinate stock replenishments for branches.
Quality Control:
- Ensure products are stored under appropriate conditions and manage damaged or expired stock promptly.
Compliance:
- Ensure stock handling, safety, and storage practices comply with organisational standards and regulatory requirements.
Staff Management:
- Lead, manage, and motivate the warehouse or inventory team, ensuring daily tasks and operational goals are met.
- Provide ongoing training on inventory procedures, safety protocols, and the use of inventory systems.
- Assign tasks based on priority and staff expertise to ensure efficient workflow.
- Track and evaluate team performance, providing feedback, setting targets, and conducting regular performance reviews.
- Resolve team conflicts to maintain a productive and collaborative work environment.
- Ensure staff adherence to health and safety protocols and report any concerns to management.
General Operations:
- Assist and cover other areas of operations as needed, contributing to a collaborative team environment within a small managerial structure.
The Successful Applicant:
Skills and Qualifications:
- Education: High school diploma or equivalent; a degree in supply chain management, logistics, or a related field is highly preferred.
- Experience: Demonstrated experience in stock control, inventory management, and team supervision.
- Leadership Skills: Proven ability to lead and motivate a team, with excellent communication and conflict resolution skills.
- Technical Proficiency: Skilled in using inventory management systems (e.g., Odoo, SAP, Oracle, Microsoft Dynamics) and advanced Excel.
- Attention to Detail: Strong organisational skills with a keen eye for accuracy in stock records and data management.
- Problem-Solving: Capable of identifying and resolving inventory and staff-related issues efficiently in a fast-paced environment, with a focus on completing tasks from start to finish.
- Time Management: Excellent ability to manage multiple tasks, prioritise effectively, and consistently meet deadlines.
- Physical Requirements: Ability to lift and move stock, as well as work in a warehouse and boat-building factory environment. Comfortable working in hot, humid conditions and dusty environments.
What's on Offer:
Attractive USD salary on offer.
Contact:
Ryan Olver
Quote job ref JN-112024-6603087
Phone number +27113038310
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