Warehouse Manager (temp)

Apollo Tyres Ltd is an international tyre manufacturer and the leading tyre brand in India. The company has multiple manufacturing units in India and a unit each in The Netherlands and Hungary. The company markets its products under its two global brands – Apollo and Vredestein, and its products are available in over 100 countries through a vast network of branded, exclusive and multi-product outlets.

Job Title: Warehouse Manager (temp)
Location: Herstal, Belgium
Reports to (Position): Divisional Head - Logistics (EMEA)
Department/Function: Supply Chain

Purpose of the Job: The warehouse manager ensures a (cost) efficient, flexible design and organization of all warehouse processes. To this end, s/he organizes, coordinates and stimulates in such a way that the right products are delivered to customers at the desired moment at the lowest possible costs and with efficient and effective use of available resources (space, equipment and people).

Major Responsibilities: 

(1) Warehouse management
- Lead, plan and motivate the work related to logistics related activities.
- Set priorities, monitor progress so that the right products are delivered to customers at the desired moment at the lowest possible costs
- Switch on and off qualified personnel
- Monitor the qualitative and quantitative execution of the work, both in operational and in stock technical area

(2) Budget management
- Translate organizational strategy into departmental objectives, and then into critical success factors and performance indicators
- Propose, prepare and monitor departmental budgets and investment budgets
- Prepare an investment or replacement budget

(3) Process improvement
- Search for new developments, machines, processes and methods to indicate opportunities and threats.
- Optimizing studies of existing logistics processes
- Participate in and manage multidisciplinary cross-departmental projects (these can be both adaptation, expansion and renewal projects) to support the (supply chain) processes of the company to run as efficiently as possible
- Remain up to date with (legal) rules of working conditions and environmental regulations
Requirements:

- Bachelor degree in Logistics or Business administration
- 5-8 years of experience manufacturing organizations in automotive or similar industry.
- 2 years of experiences in managing warehouse and working with 3PL, especially with setting up a new warehouse.

- Good stakeholder management skill,
- Strong project management and planning skills,
- Proven track of continuous improvement implementation
- Knowledge or experience with SAP, Power BI, or any other Supply Chain tools is an advantage
- Available on site 5 days/week