Warehouse Manager
- Pulau Pinang
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Liable for the overall warehouse, 3PL and logistics operations including receiving, warehousing/inventory control, pick-pack-ship, and distribution of raw material, components, supplies, and finished goods inventory.
- Manages daily site logistics operations, processes, workflows, and escalation through proactive reporting and compliancy to governmental classification & regulatory licensing requirements.
- Accountable to monitor and approve site logistics spend involving freight payment.
- Plan and organize daily or near-term workload to maximize productivity and on time delivery target while supporting the broader organization.
- Collaborates and coordinates with inter-departmental to meet or exceed all KPIs, goals, and objectives.
- Site focal point on escalations involving transportation, warehousing, brokerage operations, and packaging, and crating issue resolution.
- You are responsible to ensure a safe working environment by keeping track of work areas, equipment and tools such as PPE are correctly used.
- Oversee direct reports career growth and development by leading, developing and mentoring, as a contribution to support the development of a strong leadership team and warehouse operation.
- Effective communication with all levels of leadership; internally and externally (customer & vendors).
- interaction with key stakeholders including production, planning, order fulfilment, materials management, and other supply chain teams.
- Maintain inventory accuracy with appropriate materials transactions and effective communication schedules release data or all other logistics/materials requirement information to buyers, planners, manufacturing, and relevant teams.
- Maintains a high standard of warehouse housekeeping/sanitation, supporting a lean work environment by promoting and delivers continuous improvement processes and programs.
- Administers and accountable for government import & export customs policies, tools, statistical
- Demonstrated leading experience of a warehouse that includes successfully driving a site warehouse's physical inventory, cycle counts and companywide stock take.
- Experience in leading warehouse in supporting production e.g. like receiving, kitting, outgoing and material handling.
- Experience in leading operational teams involved receiving, warehousing/inventory management, and distribution of materials, supplies, components, equipment, and finished goods.
- Understand warehouse and material handling operational discipline principles and techniques involving warehouse layout, picking, inventory counting, variance resolution and discrepant receipt management.
- Strong leadership and people management.
- Knowledge in WMS, ERP, SAP and Microsoft office (especially excel).
- Ability to manage individual contributors (internal and external) performing site logistics operations.
- Fluent in English language and primary local language (written and verbal).
- Proficiency in Mandarin is an added advantage.