Inventory Shift Manager at takealot.com

Your responsibilities can include:

• Manage and ensure that Inventory is well organized and controlled to sufficiently support production and the goals of the business
• Implement improvement processes and maintain policies and procedures and systems to minimize costs and maximize working capital
• Ensuring all work areas are clean and tidy and safe for staff to work in (housekeeping)
• Manage and implement the Company Policies & Procedures within the Inventory department and ensure that they is strictly adhered to
• Manage stock takes, cycle counts, replenishments
• Ensure stock accuracy and pickable locations
• Conduct Pick Fail investigations
• Supervise stock movements
• Drive process improvement through data driven decisions
• Manage and implement inventory management strategies
• Optimize the customer experience by ensuring the right product quantities, in the right places, at the right time
• Perform audits of inventory management-related tools and systems ensuring settings are correct and optimized
• Automate whenever possible
• Take ownership of all aspects of inventory reporting for the company: develop the inventory planning model,
  plan product transitions and inventory exposure
• Produce daily reports to ensure key critical areas of the inventory processes are controlled
• Effective leadership and direction for the operations team through involvement and communication to deliver on the relevant key business drivers Measure and manage staff through formal staff appraisals, development, coaching and disciplinary procedures
• Conform to all Health, Safety and Environmental (HSE) standards and legislation as set out by the business and the OHS Act
• Monitor, maintain and manage all inventory related reports
• Be responsible for all projects stock moves
• Ensure that all inventory is effectively managed by
• identifying slow moving stock, dead stock, expired dates and other critical factors
• Continuously monitor the stock density by location and devise appropriate action plans to reduce impact on production
• Develop appropriate inventory solutions for the variety of product types stored
• Strategically align with risk management and highlight high risk areas and potential theft hot spots
• Expected to manage the Inventory holding and Integrity of the DC
• Collaborate with HOD's in order to streamline and achieve Inventory and DC KPI's
• Align Inventory policies with Finance
• Assist in maintaining and managing the compliance as set out by the various regulatory boards
• Liaise with Head Office to drive and execute Group strategies related to Inventory and compliance

Qualifications and experience:

• Relevant Inventory qualification (Degree or Diploma)
• 5 to 7 years previous experience in inventory management including minimum 3 years at management level
• Preferably in the Logistics, Supply Chain, Warehousing and Distribution environment
• Proficient in MS Office (Word, Excel, MS Access and PowerPoint) ,WMS systems