Assistant Manager – Warehouse Operations

DP World; Abu Dhabi; On-site; AED 120,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in global trade is seeking a Warehouse Operations Manager to oversee the day-to-day warehousing operations. The role involves steering operational teams, ensuring high-quality execution of activities, and improving efficiency while managing budget and KPI's. Ideal candidates will have substantial logistics experience and the ability to motivate a large team.

Qualifications

• 7-10 years of logistics experience in a 3PL company.
• Experience supervising a large operational team in logistics.
• Ability to effectively coach and motivate warehousing staff.

Responsibilities

• Supervising and steering daily warehousing activities and staff.
• Tracking and coordinating secure receipt, storage, and timely delivery of goods.
• Maintaining records and ensuring compliance with health and safety regulations.

Skills

Logistics Management

Team Leadership

Communication

Problem-Solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

Job description

Location : KEZAD, Abu Dhabi

Job Description

The job holder will be responsible for the full day-to-day Warehousing Operations, steering the operational teams, ensuring high quality execution of all warehouse related activities. Daily liaising both with clients and internal stake holders, improving overall efficiency and increasing departmental profits while managing the warehousing performance.

The job holder oversees a wide variety of elements in the warehousing business, including hiring staff, operating within budget, reporting, and setting plus beating challenging KPI’s for growth and customer satisfaction. Key element to achieve these goals and parameters, is to build and ensure a highly motivated team that is productive, agile and customer centric.

Your Responsibilities

• Supervising and steering daily all warehousing activities and its staff.
• Supervising, evaluating, and reporting on warehouse productivity and efficiency to both customers and internal stake holders.
• Tracking and coordinating the secure receipt, storage, and timely delivery of goods and materials to and from the warehouse.
• Checking orders, bills, items received, inventory, and deliveries for its accuracy.
• Maintaining records, reporting relevant information, and preparing any necessary documentation supporting its customers, DP World Logistics accounting, management, and operational teams.
• Ensuring high-end maintenance standards and compliance with all applicable health and safety regulations. Support, comply and ensure commitment to all company and authorities Health & Safety regulations, and all other relevant company policies and procedures.
• Coordinating and maintaining all warehouse equipment, ensuring daily MHE fitness checks to enable full operational capacity and achieve daily capability targets.
• Professional communication and coordinating with customers, logistics stake holders and relevant other DP World departments.
• Manage Manpower resources effectively and efficiently to support customer delivery requirements by planning and adjusting flexible staffing levels to meet daily operational requirements within the warehouse.
• Monitor and review operational methods to facilitate both qualitative and quantitative improvements within the operation whilst ensuring continuous high-end customer service and quality standards.
• Maintain training matrix and ensure warehouse employees are adequately trained and competent within their role to ensure operational flexibility
• Liaise with customers, suppliers, and transport companies as and when required in a professional way to ensure a smooth execution of all warehouse related activities.
• Ensure all warehousing activities are fully executed and administrated through our WMS system to capture all data and have it available to our customers and internal stake holders.
• Hosting customers and internal + external delegations on their visit to the warehouse to display and explain DP World Logistics warehousing capabilities.
• Instill a HSE culture and behavioral mindset across the site.

Your Profile

• Essential Qualification: bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Desirable Qualification: Certificate/Graduate
• Work Experience: 7-10 years of logistics experience in a 3PL company.
• Experience supervising a large operational team in a logistics-based industry.
• Proficiency in working with logistics staff and associated functional departments.
• Proficiency in working with customers.
• Ability to effectively coach/mentor and motivate all warehousing staff.
• High understanding of the entire operations in a high-end warehouse environment.

About DP World

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, creating opportunities and improving the quality of life for people around the world. DP World exists to make the world’s trade flow better, changing what’s possible for the customers and communities we serve globally.

With a dedicated, diverse and professional team of more than 115,000 employees from 160 nationalities, spanning 78 countries on six continents, DP World is pushing trade further and faster towards a seamless supply chain that’s fit for the future.

We’re rapidly transforming and integrating our businesses -- Ports and Terminals, Marine Services, Logistics and Technology – and uniting our global infrastructure with local expertise to create stronger, more efficient end-to-end supply chain solutions that can change the way the world trades.

What's more, we're reshaping the future by investing in innovation. From intelligent delivery systems to automated warehouse stacking, we’re at the cutting edge of disruptive technology, pushing the sector towards better ways to trade, minimising disruptions from the factory floor to the customer’s door.

DP World is on a mission to transcend boundaries and bridge the gap between all nations and cultures – not just in what we do but also in how we behave.

We are dedicated to creating a culture where everyone feels respected, supported, and empowered to reach their full potential. We believe that embracing inclusion and diversity, drives innovation and growth and helps us connect people, businesses, and societies. Free minds and different perspectives are changing our world, and together we can change what’s possible.

WE MAKE TRADE FLOW