Stock Controller

Job Description

Role Overview:

A career opportunity has arisen in the Admin Milling Department – Premier CDC Lords View – Depot. The position is responsible to ensure the efficient and accurate management of inventory, implementation of controls and processes for finished goods, raw material and packaging material.

Main Responsibilities:

• Ability to control stock and perform full stock-taking procedures
• Investigate and resolve stock discrepancies on the system and floor.
• Ensure timely and efficient stock movement by following the FIFO (first in first out) process.
• Optimize storage capacity.
• Minimize stock losses and damages.
• Identify areas for improvement.
• Inventory accuracy, all stock put away gets done on time and into the correct locations.
• Inventory levels, monitor buffers to prevent an oversupply on stock in the warehouse.
• Monitor and managing short dated and expired stock.
• Participation and coordination of monthly stock counts.
• Managing physical stock to ensure correct product code, batch number and best before dates are on the products.
• Ensure all pallets in racking have correct bin cards and information recorded correctly.
• Creating of Weekly / Monthly reports on excel for management.

Qualification Requirements

• Matric with Accountancy
• Accounting Certificate or any Inventory qualifications an advantage

Experience Requirements

• Experience in an FMCG environment
• 3 – 5 years’ stock control experience

Key Outputs

Job Related Competencies (Knowledge, skills and attributes):

• Working on Excel a must
• MS Office skills
• Attention to detail
• Teamwork
• Deadline Driven
• Ability to work under pressure.
• Sense of urgency
• Inventory management knowledge
• Analytical and problem-solving skills
• Communication and collaboration skills

Other Requirements

• Ad-hoc warehouse functions may be required from time to time
• Extra working hours required at month end, financial year end and at managements discretion.