Warehouse Team Leader
Summary
Oversee daily warehouse operations—receiving, storage, shipping, and inventory accuracy—to meet delivery targets and safety standards in a large brewery.
Dreaming big is in our DNA. It’s who we are as a company. It’s our culture. It’s our heritage. And more than ever, it’s our future. A future where we’re always looking forward. Always serving up new ways to meet life’s moments. A future where we keep dreaming bigger. We look for people with passion, talent, and curiosity, and provide them with the teammates, resources and opportunities to unleash their full potential. The power we create together – when we combine your strengths with ours – is unstoppable. Are you ready to join a team that dreams as big as you do?
The key purpose of this position is to directly supervise, manage and optimize warehouse operations (Receipt, Storage, Replenishment, Shipping and Returns) to meet and exceed set goals. This function oversees and coordinates daily warehousing activities by implementing quality, productivity, production, and customer service standards.
Key Roles and Responsibilities:
Manage and drive improvements in daily warehouse operations – Receipt, Storage, Offloading, Loading
Optimize all warehouse processes to ensure satisfactory and on-time delivery to customers
Manage warehouse Inventory with focus on driving inventory accuracy
Process customer receipts and pass customer credit
Process inter-depot and inter-warehouse transfer
Manage all critical products affecting Downtime Caused by Logistics e.g. Sorting and FLT availability
Manage the inflow and outflow of products (Full Products and Containers)
Drive achievement of warehouse PI’s and KPI’s
Participate in annual target setting and cascading
Cascade Team and Individual Goals and Manage Team Performance (Daily Performance Tracking, Monthly One on One’s)
Develop and Implement process standards: SOPs, OPL’s OWDs etc.
Manage Warehouse stock to ensure quality and availability to customers (Internal and External)
Maintain and improve safety by driving the correct safety behaviors on the shop-floor
Ensure optimal asset utilization (Warehouse, Forklifts, Human Resources
Ensure accuracy of inventory and shipments
Facilitate Team dynamics
Supervise Daily Stock Counts
Manage internal and external customer complaints
Own and Drive Implementation of VPO/DPO
- Engage with the Plant regarding their VPO/DPO dream by driving VPO/DPO on the shop floor. Representation during milestone audits will be necessary to support the Plant’s VPO/DPO dream
Warehouse KPI Reporting
Collate and Submit daily PI/KPI data as per requirement by the Warehouse Controller
Key Attributes and Competences:
Computer Literate
MS Office/Excel
Strong and assertive
Compliance driven
Creativity
Strong work ethic: Setting and achieving goals
Dependable: Consistently following through
Positive attitude: Creating a good environment.
Self-motivated: Working effectively with little direction Team-oriented: Making the most out of collaboration
Min. of B.Sc./ B.Tech /HND in a related field
2 years’ experience in Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Band: VIII
AB InBev is an equal opportunity employer, and all appointments will be made in-line with AB InBev employment equity plan and talent requirements. We are a company that promotes gender equality. Internal applicants require Line manager approval. Please note that only short-listed applicants will be contacted.