Lead – Material Stores

Position Summary: The Lead – Material Stores will be responsible for managing day-to-day material stores and warehouse operations, ensuring accurate receipt, storage, preservation, issue, and control of materials. The role will maintain inventory accuracy, ensure material availability to internal users, optimize storage and material movement, and ensure compliance with established procedures, safety standards, and inventory controls. Work You’ll Do: Job Description Primary Objective ·   Lead daily material stores and warehouse operations, including material receipt, inspection coordination, put-away, storage, preservation, and issue. ·   Ensure materials are received against purchase orders and relevant documents, and coordinate with Purchase and Quality for discrepancies or inspection requirements. ·   Maintain accurate inventory records and ensure timely system transactions for receipts, transfers, issues, and returns. ·   Monitor stock levels, identify shortages, excess, non-moving, and obsolete inventory, and initiate appropriate actions. ·   Conduct periodic cycle counts and physical stock verification; investigate and resolve inventory variances. ·   Ensure proper identification, labeling, segregation, and storage of materials to prevent damage, loss, or mix-ups. ·   Coordinate with Production, Planning, Purchase, Quality, and other departments to ensure timely material availability. ·   Manage material issuing activities against authorized requests and maintain proper documentation and traceability. ·   Ensure orderly warehouse layout, space utilization, housekeeping, and adherence to safety requirements. ·   Monitor stores performance and prepare periodic reports on inventory, stock accuracy, shortages, and other key activities. ·   Guide stores personnel, allocate daily work, and ensure adherence to standard operating procedures. Specific Objective ·   Maintain inventory accuracy and ensure timely system updates for all material movements. ·   Ensure uninterrupted material availability to support production and business requirements. ·   Minimize inventory discrepancies, material damage, and losses through effective controls. ·   Improve warehouse utilization, material traceability, housekeeping, and safety. ·   Ensure timely completion of cycle counts, physical verification, and inventory reporting. Basic Qualifications: ·   Bachelor’s degree or diploma in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, or a related discipline. ·   Relevant experience in stores, warehouse, or inventory management, preferably in a manufacturing environment. ·   Knowledge of material receipt, storage, preservation, issuing, stock control, and physical verification. ·   Proficiency in MS Office; working knowledge of ERP inventory / stores modules in SAP ·   Good organizational, communication, coordination, and problem-solving skills. Preferred Qualifications: