A Warehouse Supervisor is responsible to lead and evolve our warehouse operations – both in house and with third party logistics providers to streamline operations, enhancing 3PL performance, and delivering outstanding results. In this role, you’ll play a key part in driving efficiency, ensuring inventory accuracy, and delivering high standards in quality, safety, and performance. You’ll also work closely with cross-functional department, collaborating and influencing across various levels to drive operations excellency.
Your Challenge:
- Lead and supervise a team of warehouse assistants to manage day-to-day warehouse operations efficiently, including inbound and outbound shipments, transportation, and warehousing.
- Plan warehouse activities to operate at optimum levels, working towards efficiency and productivity.
- Plan and balance deliveries between internal delivery team as well as outsourced delivery providers; to ensure stocks get to our customers in time.
- Lead team to maintain accurate inventory through planned cycle counts, monthly reconciliations, inventory analysis, and related reporting.
- Maintain an organized, safe, and efficient warehouse environment, upholding 5S principles
- Ensure compliance with all warehouse/operations related government regulations and WSH safety standards
- Ensure regular maintenance of warehouse equipment.
- Ensure all warehouse activities and transactions are accurately updated in SAP.
- Verify that all inbound and outbound deliveries are properly documented.
- Supervise and evaluate warehouse team’s performance to ensure team productivity, ensuring adherence to best practices and proper handling of equipment, materials, and supplies.
Specifications:
- Professional Certificate / NiTEC
- Minimum 6 years of experience in a warehouse management in logistics / manufacturing industry with minimum 3 years track record in supervisory role
- Strong leadership and people management skills
- Strong understanding of warehouse operations, including inventory management
- Forklift license will be advantageous
- Excellent problem-solving, decision-making, and time management skills
- Able to work under stress, fast pace environment, flexible and adaptive to change, dynamic and pragmatic
- Proficient in using warehouse management systems (e.g. SAP WMS) and data analysis tools
- Able to move loads and carton boxes of up to 20 kg.
- Able to commit to shift work and overtime
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office
- Good communication and interpersonal skills
- Familiarity with health, safety, and environmental regulations applicable to warehouse operations will be an added advantage