South Africas leading online retailer is looking for a highly talented Shift Manager - Inventory to join our team in our Johannesburg Distribution Centre.
We are a young dynamic hyper growth company looking for smart creative hard-working people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs a great work environment and a promise that you wont be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.
To effectively manage and oversee all operational activities during the shift to ensure inventory accuracy timely stock investigations and smooth supply chain processes within the Distribution Centre (DC). The role ensures service level agreements (SLAs) are met through accurate stock location and quantities improved operational efficiency and compliance with health and safety standards while developing the operational teams performance.
This position requires a candidate with the proven ability to drive process improvements and the ability to keep pace with TAKEALOT explosive growth while motivating others to meet the challenges of an extremely deadline-driven and fast-moving environment of E-commerce
This position reports to the Shift Manager.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Dispatch KPIs Customer orders to be placed on milkruns as per KPIs
- Cost control manage labour / heads on shift vs volumes and hours
- Housekeeping manage the team to ensure they keep areas within standards
- Goals ensure that each individual has a clear understanding of their goals
- Review internal processes and continue to iterate and innovate to improve department continuously
- Apply our company values into daily tasks
Attributes required:
- Strong communications skills
- A structured and disciplined management style
- Ability to motivate and inspire others is critical
- Strong problem solving skills
- Self-starter with high energy levels a must
- Well-developed business and operational acumen
- Analytically minded and able to find and use data to inform decision making
- Ability to work under pressure with strict deadlines
- Good attention to detail
- Strong Customer Service orientation
- Goal orientated and motivated to succeed
- Dynamic individual with proven experience in delivering change and innovative solutions
- Preferred experience in:
- E-commerce experience
- ERP systems knowledge
- Experience in working with budgets and cost analysis
- LEAN or continuous improvement
- Performance management skills knowledge of Industrial Relations and practices
Qualifications:
- Grade 12 National Senior Certificate
- Supply Chain or Logistics higher certificate is preferred.
- 3-5 years Supervisory experience in logistics or distribution environment
- People management experience good oral and written communication skills
- Decision making and problem solving ability
- Ability to manage change within a logistics operation
- Will commit and achieve targets and project timelines.
- Willing to work shifts including weekends if necessary in an operational 7/365 environment
- Self-starter with high energy levels a must
The Environment:
- employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic smart customer- centric fun and have the shared ambition of being the leading e- commerce company in Africa.
- We have fun work hard take ownership work in teams to create solutions and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
- We are short on ego and high on output.
- We are doers and not only thinkers its all in the execution after all.
- We love what we do and what we are creating.
- We seek to employ an Extra Ordinary Mind whois Smart has Integrityand is Hardworking.
If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us!
Takealot Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities to apply.