Warehouse Manager

Position Title: Warehouse / Logistic Manager

Department: Supply Chain

Location: Al Manhal Water Factory - Dammam

Main Purpose of Job:

To ensure the management of NW operations related to warehouses / DC & be optimized with high levels of service, low cost & high quality following safe, sustainability & ongoing improvement. This includes management of all the interaction and product movement between NW and relevant sites. That role is expected to optimize the logistic Network within KSA (Factory warehouses, External WH and Remote area) to reduce overall cost of factory fixed overheads and cost of distribution.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Monitors all the Nestlé Health, Safety and Environmental standards in the warehouse and distribution environments in both the NW factories and External WH are compliant on a daily basis and reports incidents and improvement plans.
2. Performance & KPI's Improvement by:
1. Continuously monitor the effectiveness of warehouse-operations strategies aimed at reducing operating costs, including wages, and improvement of quality-control procedures.
2. Review the warehouse operation throughout the work process and at completion, including the daily “circle check” to ensure that all products are stored safely.
3. Analyze the workflow in raw and packaging, finished goods warehouses including receiving, storing, and shipping goods to maximize utilization.
4. Solving day to day issues.
5. Motivating the team to continuously improve performance.
3. Management responsibility for the logistics operations with the WH, Factories and DC's, working closely with the factory management teams, planners and transport team to ensure the end-to-end operations are working as required, and there is a continuous improvement mindset approach to all operations.
4. Ensure communication and collaboration with other functional departments (Planning, Sales, transport, DC, Factories) for a quick reaction to urgencies or issues.
5. Assist Value Stream Design which will identify areas of improvement. Support and help the NCE and LEAN roll out, ensuring that a continuous improvement culture is developed and sustained.
6. Ensure raw & packaging materials, and finished goods used in the production of various goods are easily located and transported efficiently from where they are to where they need to be.
7. Developing people by ensuring the team alignment with business objectives and strategies to meet the requirement in each area to cover any competency gaps.

Key Experiences:

1. At least 5 years relevant and successful operational experience at market/business level in one or more of the following:
1. Warehouse Management
2. Transportation
3. Raw and Packaging materials Control and movement
4. Physical Logistics Projects
5. SAP experience
2. Relevant operational experience at market/business level, in the following areas is beneficial:
1. Import / export operations
2. Demand & Supply Planning
3. Transportation
4. Technical
5. Finance: Business Planning, budget control, cost management, opex
3. Experience in the management of projects such as:
1. Distribution Network Redesign and optimization
2. High Performance Logistics
3. Cost reduction (opex savings)
4. Desirable to have had experience implementing NCE-Goal alignment concepts and tools.

Personal Qualities:

Strong service mindset. Leadership Skills.