Warehouse Controller - East London, South Africa - Aspen Pharma Group

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Description

Overview
Responsible for a warehouse, their team's 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 nonproduction items
  • Create Requisitions for maintenance, services and nonproduction 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 minimise overstocks and remove redundant and obsolete raw materials
  • Perform regular cycle counts and assists in conducting yearly physical inventory counts
  • Review, authorise and implement SOP's and systems to ensure compliance

Organisational strategy, vision & values

  • Ensure that the vision and mission of the department/ organisation 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 daytoday 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 riskbased compliance systems

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 daytoday 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 riskbased compliance systems

Skills Required:


Background/experience

  • 35 years' experience in Logistics
  • Minimum of a Bachelor's Degree/ Diploma in Logistics or similar

Specific job skills

  • Logistics Management
  • ERP (BAAN) knowledge
  • Indepth inventory management knowledge
  • People management skills

Competencies

  • Interrogating Information
  • Planning and Organising
  • Meeting Deadlines

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