Head - Warehousing Operations - Retail

Position : Head-Warehousing Operations (Leading Retail Company)

Role :

- Manage the current Pan India Warehouses, Distribution Centres and Cold Storage facilities and strategically plan for new facilities to improve productivity

- Lead the development and delivery of Distribution planning

- Develop Distribution processes and management capability to ensure adequate Distribution forecasting

- Work with Property and IT to design and develop all buildings, equipment and systems required to fulfil Distribution Plans

- Lead the team to plan and manage service levels and stockholding to deliver agreed targets, particularly during critical trading periods

- Develop transport operations to deliver a cost effective, high quality service to stores aligned to local transport regulations and accommodating the variables in demand

- Develop local talent pools for filling Distribution vacancies

- Develop business cases that facilitates capital expenditure within Distribution and warehousing

- Build operating budgets that control costs and income

- Identify Distribution efficiencies to reduce costs

- Forecast and manage cost centre expenditure within budget ensuring effective use and control

- Negotiate with suppliers

- The role requires around 10-15 days of travel every month

Requirements :

- Ideally an Engg + MBA

- 12+ yrs of experience. Should have experience in setting up and managing multiple warehousing and distribution facilities ideally in the Food Retail/ FMCG Industry

- Strong Distribution Management experience with a successful track record of developing people, spotting talent and managing a remote team at senior level

- Extensive operations Experience

- A broad business leader able to develop balanced plans, which the business can afford to deliver

- Strong people management skills with experience of managing large teams with operational job activities

- Experience in managing large high throughput Distribution Centres

- Should have experience in dealing with labour issues

- Should have experience in working on Productivity based projects, process improvement projects

- Should be a Strategic Manager, being proactive, continuously planning ahead and ability to communicate the plans

- Good communication and Team building skills

- Collaborative and problem solving skills in resolving long and short term problems through cross functional coordination

- High level of customer orientation

Location : Mumbai

This position is with a Client of Vertex Corporate Services which is a Leading Retail Company