Warehouse Manager at Nextzon Business Services Limited

Nextzon Business Services Limited - Our mission at NEXTZON is to help entrepreneurs build and transform businesses for phenomenal success. Our intent is to leverage Africa's emerging markets, rising growth, value creation opportunities, latent entrepreneurial talent and overall innovative drive for the creation of wealth for all our stake holders as well as add value to the Nigerian economy through the creation of jobs. Our clients include start-ups, small and medium enterprises as well as multinationals and industry leaders in key sectors of the Nigerian and African regional economies.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Warehouse Manager

Location: Anambra

Purpose

• Providing materials, equipment, and supplies by directing receiving, warehousing, and distribution services.
• Supervising warehouse staff and ensuring compliance to every regulatory standard.

Key Roles and Responsibilities

• Liaising with customers, suppliers and transport companies;
• Planning, coordinating and monitoring the receipt, order assembly and dispatch of goods;
• Using space and mechanical handling equipment efficiently and making sure quality, budgetary targets and environmental objectives are met;
• Having a clear understanding of the company's policies and vision and how the warehouse contributes to these;
• Coordinating the use of automated and computerised systems where necessary;
• Responding to and dealing with customer communication by email and telephone;
• Keeping stock control systems up to date and making sure inventories are accurate;
• Planning future capacity requirements;
• Organising the recruitment and training of staff, as well as monitoring staff performance and progress;
• Motivating, organising and encouraging teamwork within the workforce to ensure productivity targets are met or exceeded;
• Producing regular reports and statistics on a daily, weekly and monthly basis;
• Briefing team leaders on a daily basis;
• Visiting customers to monitor the quality of service they are receiving;
• Maintaining standards of health and safety, hygiene and security in the work environment, for example, ensuring that stock such as chemicals and perishables are stored safely;
• Overseeing the planned maintenance of vehicles, machinery and equipment meant for warehouse use.

Qualifications and Experience

• A good first Degree in Logistics, Supply Chain Management or Business Administration
• An second Degree in a relevant course is required
• Membership of relevant professional bodies
• Age between 30-40 years
• Minimum of 5 years sales experience in a Warehouse supervision
• Demonstrated proficiency managing analytically rigorous initiatives.
• Track record in organisation management and leadership at a supervisory level

Required Skills and Competencies

• Proven warehouse management experience
• Expertise in warehouse management procedures and best practices
• Proven ability to implement process improvement initiatives
• Strong knowledge of warehousing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Hands on experience with warehouse management software and databases
• Leadership skills and ability manage staff
• Strong decision making and problem solving skills
• Excellent communication skills.

Attributes:

• Good team working skills
• Managerial skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Verbal and written communication skills
• Logical reasoning
• Numerical skills
• Technical skills
• IT skills

Application Closing Date
19th February, 2016.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Resumes (as an attachment), stating the reference code WHMGR0010 as the subject of the email, to: jobs@nextzon.com

Note: All applications will be treated in strict confidence. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.