Job Description

Join Lactalis at our plant in Parow, Cape Town Ice Cream Plant and take on an exciting opportunity to gain valuable knowledge and experience in an FMCG operational environment. You will be responsible for organizing and looking after the products/goods received, stored and dispatched.
Required Skills

• Diploma in Warehouse/Distribution/Supply Chain Management

• Experience within the FMCG environment.

• Computer literacy with working knowledge of integrated warehouse optimisation

• Management systems, and working knowledge of MSOffice (Excel, PowerPoint).

• BPCS (advantageous)

• Working knowledge of an ERP System.

• Good interpersonal skills.

• Internal and external service orientated individual.

• Willingness to embrace and drive positive change in the organisation.

• Willingness to work long hours producing exceptional results while working under pressure.

• Good decision making skills with strong leadership skills.

• Assertive, disciplined individual with strong communication (written and verbal) skills who can communicate within the matrix of different levels of all stakeholders.

• Ability to work independent as well as part of a team.

• Good understanding of Budget management and implementation

• Accountability to accept mistakes and performance improvement required from within and not blame others

• Entrepreneurship in driving results within warehousing with personal pride

• Accessibility/modesty fitting for an employee within this Logistics function of a multi-national company

• Pragmatic approach towards execution of agreed principles

• Continuous improvement mind-set in driving better results

• Transparency in support of continuous awareness of improvement area

• Loyalty towards the company and its objectives

• Tenacity to follow through with initiatives

• Maturity in building relationships and managing your functional area

• Compliance driven to keep our staff safe and protecting the companyxe2x80x99s reputation

• Very responsive in nature with high levels of urgency

• Knowledge of WM9(advantageous)

• Knowledge of and/or experience in the Dairy industry

• Advanced level of MSOffice (Excel, PowerPoint).

• Working knowledge of BPCS.

• Experience within logistics/supply chain in the dairy industry

• Knowledge and experience of Food Safety systems.

• Plan and coordinate the daily activities of the warehouse team through an optimised operational structure, agreed job descriptions and established measures of success.

• On a daily basis analyse operational execution results, understand the reason for deviations and action corrective measures in a collaborative manner

• Continuously develop and drive strategies in collaboration with all internal and external stakeholders to achieve all required performance indicators

• Ensure adherence to Food safety systems, OHS ACT, BCEA legislations and use the companyxe2x80x99s disciplinary guidelines as a medium to drive improved results

• Ensure that the company is professionally represented by its ambassadors (warehouse staff relevance) through training, dress code rules and other relevant interventions

• Nurture a mature and motivated staff complement through continuous training and engagement forums, interacting with staff at all organisational levels

• Build a collaborative relationship with the regional and national sales teams to ensure the relationship drive the companyxe2x80x99s customer service objectives with a mature ability in finding the balance between customer service and a highly cost and efficiency driven environment

• Build and maintain sustainable relationships with all customers to ensure warehouse efficiency measures and cost achievement results are at optimal levels

• Manage and control cost through analysing daily, weekly and monthly performance measurements and management reports

• Monitoring and management of product storageand waste (losses, obsolescence, dumps, and related costs)

• Ensure customer service excellence by storing and loading quality products through proper cold chain management.

• General site maintenance , preventative maintenance and housekeeping

• Statistically analyse movement per SKU to optimize storage location and warehouse utilization and xe2x80x93efficiencies

• Conduct studies/review to improve overall operational efficiency

• Develop and review standard operating procedures for your area.

• Ensure Assets are maintained and accounted for at all time

• Assist in the successful roll out and management of the Lactalis Continuous Improvement program

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