Inventory Manager

South Africas leading online retailer is looking for a highly talented Inventory Manager join our team in Kwa-Zulu Natal.

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.

This position reports to the DC General Manager

Your responsibilities will include:

• Manage and ensure that Inventory is well organised and controlled to sufficiently support production and the goals of the business
• Implement improvement processes and maintain policies and procedures and systems to minimise costs and maximize working capital
• Ensuring all work areas are clean and tidy and safe for staff to work in (housekeeping)
• Manage and implement the Company Policies & Procedures within the Inventory department and ensure that they is strictly adhered to
• Manage stock takes cycle counts replenishments
• Ensure stock accuracy and pick able locations
• Control Pick fails & stock investigations
• Supervise stock movements
• Daily deal stock management
• Drive process improvement through data driven decisions
• Manage and implement inventory management strategies
• Optimize the customer experience by ensuring the right product quantities in the right places at the right time
• Perform audits of inventory management-related tools and systems ensuring settings are correct and optimized. Automate whenever possible
• Take ownership of all aspects of inventory reporting for the company: develop the inventory planning model plan product transitions and inventory exposure
• Produce daily reports to ensure key critical areas of the inventory processes are controlled
• Effective leadership and direction for the operations team through involvement and communication to deliver on the relevant key business drivers
• Measure and manage staff through formal staff appraisals development coaching and disciplinary procedures
• Conform to all Health Safety and Environmental (HSE) standards and legislation as set out by the business and the OHS Act
• Drive continuous improvement measures within your department
• Align all inventory report with financial reports
• Monitor LPN reports for all DC operations (Inbound put-away outbound returns recovery and RFC)
• Oversee the put away function stock filing
• Be responsible for all projects stock moves
• Ensure that all inventory is effectively managed by identifying slow moving stock dead stock expired dates and other critical factors
• Continuously monitor the stock density by location and devise appropriate action plans to reduce impact on production
• Develop appropriate inventory solutions for the variety of product types stored
• Align with finance on month end processes
• Clear all daily pick and pack not founds
• Conduct daily put away audit to evaluate the accuracy of the process
• Strategically align with risk management and highlight high risk areas and potential theft hot spots

Qualification & Experience:

• Relevant Inventory qualification (Degree or Diploma)
• 5-10 years previous experience in inventory management
• Preferably in the Logistics Supply Chain Warehousing and Distribution environment.
• A minimum of 5 years in a management role

Attributes Required:

• Excellent and proven data extraction and analytical ability and applying this data to drive inventory management decisions
• Organized and detailed oriented with proven experience of managing inventory
• A Self- starter who is tenacious at identifying and resolving challenges
• Passionate about customer service within the supply chain environment
• Proficient in MS Office (Word Excel MS Access and PowerPoint)
• Experience creating and setting annual operating plans and presenting to Senior Management
• Have a detailed understanding of inventory control / warehouse management systems (including reverse logistics)
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills
• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills for a demanding and customer focused working environment.
• Possess excellent personal organisation and business administration skills in accordance with modern best practice methods.
• Possess the ability to work productively efficiently & effectively with initiative and drive under tight timescales and pressure whilst maintaining attention to detail and quality.
• Possess the willingness to learn improve and adapt.
• Good team player hard worker willing to be flexible with a positive attitude
• Must be able to work as part of a multi-cultural team
• Must be willing to work overtime as and when required. This overtime will be unpaid due to the level of the position

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.