Assistant Warehouse Manager

Job Summary

The Assistant Warehouse Manager will be responsible for the full day-to-day Warehousing Operations, steering the operational teams, ensuring high quality execution of all warehouse related activities along with daily liaising both with clients and internal stake holders, improving overall efficiency and increasing departmental profits while managing the warehousing performance.

The role will also be accountable for upholding the highest standards of Health, Safety, and Environmental (HSE) compliance across all warehouse operations, ensuring adherence to regulatory requirements, conducting regular risk assessments, and fostering a proactive safety culture throughout the team.

The Assistant Warehouse Manager oversees a wide variety of elements in the warehousing business, including hiring staff, operating within budget, reporting, and achieving challenging KPI's for growth and customer satisfaction. A key component of this is to build and ensure a highly motivated team that is productive, agile and customer centric.

Key Responsibilities

• Supervising and steering daily all warehousing activities and its staff.
• Supervising, evaluating, and reporting on warehouse productivity and efficiency to both customers and internal stake holders.
• Tracking and coordinating the secure receipt, storage, and timely delivery of goods and materials to and from the warehouse.
• Instill a HSE culture and behavioral mindset across the site.
• Checking orders, bills, items received, inventory, and deliveries for its accuracy.
• Maintaining records, reporting relevant information, and preparing any necessary documentation supporting its customers, DP World Logistics accounting, management, and operational teams.
• Ensuring high-end maintenance standards and compliance with all applicable health and safety regulations. Support, comply and ensure commitment to all company and authorities Health & Safety regulations, and all other relevant company policies and procedures.
• Coordinating and maintaining all warehouse equipment, ensuring daily MHE fitness checks to enable full operational capacity and achieve daily capability targets.
• Professional communication and coordinating with customers, logistics stake holders and relevant other DP World departments.
• Manage Manpower resources effectively and efficiently to support customer delivery requirements by planning and adjusting flexible staffing levels to meet daily operational requirements within the warehouse.
• Monitor and review operational methods to facilitate both qualitative and quantitative improvements within the operation whilst ensuring continuous high-end customer service and quality standards.
• Maintain training matrix and ensure warehouse employees are adequately trained and competent within their role to ensure operational flexibility.
• Liaise with customers, suppliers, and transport companies as and when required in a professional way to ensure a smooth execution of all warehouse-related activities.
• Ensure all warehousing activities are fully executed and administrated through our WMS system to capture all data and have it available to our customers and internal stakeholders.
• Hosting customers and internal + external delegations on their visit to the warehouse to display and explain DP World Logistics warehousing capabilities

Experience & Qualification

• 8+ years of experience in warehousing, logistics, or supply chain operations, with at least 3 years in a leadership or managerial role.
• Proven experience in managing end-to-end warehouse operations, including inbound, storage, inventory control, order fulfillment, and outbound logistics.
• In-depth knowledge of the warehousing and supply chain solutions industry
• Keen and strategic thinker and planner.
• Understanding of budget management and financial monitoring.