Lead - Warehouse Operations

Roles & Responsibilities

To ensure the financial & customer service targets for the warehouse function:

- Achieve the budgeted sales by ensuring the optimal planning of resources and managing the skews and showcasing agility in supply chain

- Deliver cost efficiency by ensuring that the total cost of warehousing per piece is within the budget.

- Continuously look for ways to improve throughput, bring down the cost per piece & to reduce wastages in existing warehouses

Warehouse Business Solutions:

- Drive and design warehouse process to improve the productivity / accuracy / efficiency.

- Ensure process compliance in the unit.

- Ensure inwards and outwards are completed within the set timeline to meet the demands of the market

- Ensure deliveries in Warehouse are completed on time.

- Ensure returns accounting completed as per norms.

- Implement 5S & Kaizen at the workplace.

- Implement WM related process like Batch Mgmt, Flow through, HU mgmt., Cycle count and Physical Inventory, Inbound and Outbound process with integration of RF devices.

- Coordination with Statutory /internal auditors to conduct Process & Inventory Audit

Inventory control:

- Driving the reconciliation of system information flow.

- Control the system transaction for inward and outward.

- Ensure that warehouses have best in class stocks accuracy & visibility.

- Driving right control of WH Inventory - Improve Inventory Management Process & accuracy

Customers:

- Provide efficient warehousing & logistics services to customers by providing visibility of inventory as well as faster dispatches to stores.

- To improve supply chain efficiency & improve inventory management by better using & implementing best warehouse practices.

- Continuous interaction with Business with reference to their requirements.

- Ensure and maintain the desired OTIF and DIFOT targets.

- IT team to get required customization on time as well as to meet IT requirement of warehouse on time.

Warehousing Budget & Financial:

- Leading WH budgeting exercise in line with the scope & scale of the businesses across brands & facilities.

- Ensure warehouse expenses are in line with budget.

- Have a control on Capex, Stock Control at warehouse.

- Reduce working capital

Effective team management & leadership:

- Provide direction, empowerment and motivation to the warehouse team.

- Ensure the availability of top-quality talent to take up responsibilities in various roles

- Set up cross functional teams and project plans to realize opportunities.

- Ensure processes are in place to coach, develop and nurture talent so as to create a succession pipeline

- Set and monitor processes to evaluate and reward people effectively and objectively