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Warehouse Manager – Athlone

My client a leading retail business with over 50 stores nationwide is seeking a Warehouse Manager for their central distribution site in Athlone.

This is a great role for an experienced Warehouse Manager to take charge of a large team, in a very busy warehouse containing large volumes of bulky stock.

Reporting to the Operations Manager, the successful candidate will lead a team of 36 to include operatives and transport.

As Warehouse Manager you will oversee all warehouse operations to include goods-in, picking and packing, branch fulfilment, home delivery, and delivery direct to key trade customers.

Salary and Package:

• €65k – €75k
• Bonus
• Pension
• Life Assurance

Key Responsibilities for the job of Warehouse Manager:

• Oversight of all Warehouse functions; goods-in, put-away, replenishment, picking, order assembly, consolidation, packing, and dispatching
• Planning and ensuring of all daily replenishments to all branches, trade customers, and home deliveries
• Management of warehouse layouts in order to most effectively store heavy product, such as boilers, radiators, etc.
• Ensuring the warehouse is kept to a high standard in all regards, such as equipment condition and racking safety.
• Completing training, and performance reviews, aligned with compliance standards.
• Fostering a culture of safety and excellence to further organisational ambitions.
• Facilitating strong collaboration between warehouse and office-based teams through functional and cross-functional governance.
• Oversight of safe Materials Handling Equipment operation and ensuring compliance with national legislation in relation to all health and safety practices.
• Maintaining stock accuracy through location audits, cycle counting, and proactive discrepancy investigations.
• Collaborating with different department teams to decide how best to manage slow-moving, damaged, or obsolete stock.
• Supporting regularly scheduled stocktakes.
• Collaborating with Transport to ensure targets are met by guaranteeing efficient routing, loading accuracy, and quickly resolving any transport issues that do arise.
• Resolving any order picking or order fulfilment issues highlighted by the branches, sales, or customer service.
• Utilising the ERP system to drive productivity and identify continuous improvement opportunities.
• Developing KPI’s, dashboards and reporting these daily and weekly.

Skills and Experience Required for the job of Warehouse Manager:

• Proven experience leading a large warehouse or distribution centre team as a senior manager, with the ideal candidate having worked in a multi-branch trade environment.
• A strong understanding of Branch, Site and Home Delivery fulfilment service requirements and logistics operations.
• Practical knowledge of warehouse compliance obligations and the implementation of Health and Safety practices across a workforce.
• Microsoft Excel proficiency and a good working knowledge of WMS/ERP
• Hands-on Leadership skills with the ability to communicate and collaborate across a wide range of teams, throughout the fulfilment process.

Should you be interested in this job opportunity please apply or contact Ambyr 086 8487740

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