Job Description

Responsible for: Order pickers, warehouseman keepers, service technicians

Function: Ongoing management and operation of the logistics site with the object of supplying orders to the Company’s customers their orders punctually, in the quantity, quality, on time and according to a defined budget.

What the candidate should be able to do: 

• Responsible for inventory, determining inventory policy, inventory design, equipping and subsequent daily follow-up of the various inventory items
• Responsibility for the warehouse, including operation and daily management control
• Responsibility for proper labour relations on the site according to the job descriptions of each of the employees, while maintaining employee safety and welfare
• Writing working procedures and work routines from the logistic and purchasing standpoint
• Professional assistance and direction of his direct subordinates
• Responsibility for the building, equipment and on-site inventory
• Close follow-up of the logistics budget and economy saving
• On-the-ground labor recruitment at the warehouse during pressure seasons.
• The job is to be carried out principally at the logistics site, and will be divided between 30% administration, 20% in the field at customers and suppliers, and 50% on the site.

Performance Duties:

Logistics: making daily site tours to check the following

• Visibility of the trucks
• Monitoring of the site appearance and good repair of the building and  equipment
• Visibility of site employees, punctual arrival, full attendance
• Holding express daily morning meetings
• Retaining a high quality of the site’s appearance during times of routine and at peak periods
• Daily compliance control with budget targets and order approvals in the SAP system
• Weekly reports on packing efficiency, efficiency of distribution, inventory
• Control of the service level provided by the site employees to internal and external customers of the Company
• Warehousing according to the Company’s procedures (no open-weather storage)
• Monthly stocktaking including checking on a test basis and control of FIFO management
• Recycling and destruction – no accumulation of products slated for destruction
• Site preparation for outside agencies and authorities: the municipality, firefighting department, police

Purchasing: Seeking local suppliers and signing working agreements with them

• Designing working procedures of the internal interfaces with purchasing (material and service orders procedure)
• Maintaining daily contact with the purchasing and planning in Israel and designing working procedures with them
• Handling the entire import chain

Success Indicators:

• Logistics Warehouse setup
• Compliance with budget targets
• Qualitative, quantitative and punctual order supply

Job skills

• University degree preferably in Economics and Logistics, Industrial Management
• Minimum 5 years’ of experience in managing a logistic site in FMCG
• Familiarity with purchasing and importing procedures
• Experience in management and negotiating procedures
• Capable of organization and management
• Ability to plan in the medium–and long-term, orderly, and authoritative
• Service-minded and able to cope with pressure
• Broad system overview
• Flexible and willing to work long and arduous hours, able to cope with awkward and diverse situations