An extremely active (24hrs a day) fmcg retail/distribution huge warehouse client (a bit less than 10.000 square meters) is looking for:

2-3 WAREHOUSE MANAGERS/ MANAGERESSES

The warehouse manager/ess is responsible for ensuring the entire health and wellbeing of the warehouse.

Ideally you have experience in an active FMCG warehouse – this is highly desirable.

it is a MUST that you have worked in and managed warehouse spaces around 5-10.000 square meters (for candidates with smaller warehouse experiences, we have several Warehouse Section Supervisor roles…a section is circa 1000 m2 and like all roles, these are 8 hrs shift roles)

Key duties and responsibilities include:

  • Ensuring that the warehouse meets up to its required level of operations regarding its KPIs such as vehicle turnaround times, stock accuracy and picking accuracy
  • Ensuring that proper physical and system records are maintained for all warehouse transactions
  • Ensuring that the warehouse stock position is always correct
  • Ensuring that all stock movements are performed according to the FIFO method
  • Ensuring that all warehouse processes are performed according to standard operating procedure
  • Ensuring that daily stock reconciliation and end of day processes are performed at the warehouse
  • Ensuring that all areas of the warehouse and all stock are kept in clean and neat conditions with items properly stacked according to recommended guidelines
  • Ensuring that labour gang members meet up to the SLA definitions set up for them
  • Organising the stock count and management of bad and damaged items with the audit team

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Qualifications

  • Ideally an HND or  BSc degree or equivalent – although not a must
  • Minimum 3 years’ experience working in a similar role in the FMCG sector in a big warehouse (5-10.000+ square meters)
  • Committed to continuous education through workshops, seminars and conferences
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate, present and influence credibly and effectively at all levels of the organisation
    • Strong business sense and industry expertise
    • Excellent mentoring, coaching and people management skills
    • Has an excellent analytical skill.
    • Good commercial understanding, numerical skills, a high level of computer literacy
    • Good interpersonal skills
    • Fully geographically mobile
    • Ability to work flexibly – the warehouse will be working in 3 shifts

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    Evening, weekend and unsocial hours’ work should be expected.

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    This is a 6-days a week job!!!

    Free Buses will be available to transfer personnel between Accra (eg Mall, Circle, etc) to Tema Free Trade Zone) and vice versa

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    SALARY

    Target Salary is 6000 net per month – for exceptional senior candidates with proven training abilities, it can go a bit higher.

    Benefits to be defined

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    HOW TO APPLY

    As a  professional, we expect you to properly follow these instructions please:

    1. Apply only if you really qualify – must have hands-on experience managing large active 5000-10.000+ square meters waterhousing operations
    2. This is a very senior role for the Client, so please: Make sure that all of the above is clearly stated/reflected throughout your CV – BE CLEAR please
    3. Your CV should have list of your personal accomplishments and not a mere list of duties that you copied from the relevant JD
    4. For each job that you had, add a line in your CV indicating how many people you managed directly and indirectly and the size of the warehouse space you were responsible for.
    5. Send us your HIGHLY CUSTOMIZED 2-4 page  CV (longer CVs will be rejected since they do not reflect the ability to communicate with brief focused clear sentences)  CV in Word (so NO PDF files please)  to: CV @ HIREgh . com (remove empty spaces) with the appropriate heading: ‘FMCG Warehouse Manager/ess – Tema FTZ’ (otherwise your CV will get ‘confused with otehr junior roles called Warehouse Manager’)  in your email’s subject/ Title line.
    6. Ideally, use Arial font No 10 for all of your CV and Arial font No 12 and capitals for your headings please
    7. Also, please indicate when is the earlier that you can start
    8. Once again: DO NOT SEND a CV that is 4+ pages long or a CV in PDF format or as GoogleDoc –our ATS is set to ignore CVs longer than 3 pages
    9. Please: No Google Docs either – we do not have permission to open them and getting one from you is too complex

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    We are looking forward to receiving your CV and meeting with you this week.

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    Thank you,

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    HIREghana

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