Senior Warehouse Operations Leader — WMS & Expansion

Danzas Corporation; Manama; On-site; BHD 21,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Career development

Competitive salary

Job summary

DHL Global Forwarding in Manama, Bahrain is seeking a Manager Warehouse & Manual Handling to lead large-scale warehouse operations, design layouts, and oversee safety, quality, and compliance. You will drive end-to-end processes from inbound to outbound, implement WMS solutions, coordinate cross-functional teams, and deliver on SLAs while managing budgets and performance metrics.

The role demands strategic planning, people leadership, and a track record in scaling operations within contract

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, logistics, industrial engineering, operations management, business administration, or related field.
• Typically 8–12 years of warehouse, contract-logistics, or supply-chain experience, including at least 3–5 years in a warehouse management role.
• Proven experience managing an established warehouse operation with accountability for safety, inventory, service, productivity, budgets, and customer performance.
• Demonstrated experience in the design, setup, implementation, commissioning, or launch of at least one new warehouse operation.
• Hands-on experience in warehouse layout planning, capacity modelling, racking or storage-media design, and MHE selection.
• Proven involvement in WMS implementation or major optimization projects, including requirements definition, systems integration, testing, user acceptance, training, cutover, and stabilization.
• Experience leading customer onboarding, operational transition, or contract-logistics implementation projects.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams involving Operations, Sales, Finance, Procurement, IT, HSE, HR, Facilities, Engineering, suppliers, contractors, and customers.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end customer onboarding and implementation projects from operational solution validation and planning through go-live and stabilization.
• Partner with Sales, Solutions, Finance, IT, Procurement, HSE, and customers to validate operating models, resource assumptions, implementation costs, SLAs, controls, and operational feasibility.
• Develop implementation plans, milestones, budgets, risk registers, readiness criteria, governance routines, and stakeholder reporting.
• Manage customer transition, data and inventory migration, operational trials, issue resolution, and formal handover into business-as-usual operations.
• Act as the primary operational contact for assigned customers, review service performance, resolve concerns, and maintain clear action plans.
• Ensure activities outside agreed scope are identified, approved, documented, and communicated for billing.

Skills

Leadership

Project management

Warehouse operations

WMS implementation

Inventory control

Safety leadership

Cross-functional leadership

Tools

WMS

RF scanning

Job description

DHL Global Forwarding in Manama, Bahrain is seeking a Manager Warehouse & Manual Handling to lead large-scale warehouse operations, design layouts, and oversee safety, quality, and compliance. You will drive end-to-end processes from inbound to outbound, implement WMS solutions, coordinate cross-functional teams, and deliver on SLAs while managing budgets and performance metrics.

The role demands strategic planning, people leadership, and a track record in scaling operations within contract