Jr. Manager Warehousing

Mondelēz International; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

A global snacking leader is seeking a Warehouse Operations Manager in Cape Town. You will oversee logistics operations, ensuring efficiency, safety, and quality. The suitable candidate should have a bachelor's degree and 5 years of experience in a similar role within the FMCG sector. Strong leadership and communication skills are essential. This position offers opportunities for career advancement and engages with a collaborative team environment.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in warehouse management.
• Experience in leadership roles.
• Basic English required.

Responsibilities

• Lead and supervise all warehouse operations activities.
• Ensure compliance with safety and quality standards.
• Develop and maintain business continuity plans.

Skills

Logistics management

Team leadership

Collaboration

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or Business Administration

Job description

Overview

Are You Ready to Make It Happen at Mondelēz International?

Join our Mission to Lead the Future of Snacking. Make It Possible.

You will support end-to-end logistics (physical flows from plants to customers), including all warehouse, transport and co-packing operations, in terms of service, cost, health and safety, quality, food defense, sustainability, legal requirements and policies compliance. You will provide team leadership and direction for the logistics organization. In this role, you will implement logistics strategy and effectively execute operations to ensure optimum logistics solutions while supporting various routes-to-market, and balancing service and cost. You will work collaboratively with internal and external (third-party logistics vendors) business partners to ensure effective management, timely solutions and execution.

What you will contribute

You will:

• Be accountable for warehouse, transportation, international logistics (import/export) and co-packing operations
• Ensure the implementation of the business plan by delivering a consistent service level, adapting the supply chain to the demanding and changing customer environment and ensuring sufficient operational capacity to deliver business needs
• Be accountable for delivering logistics operational cost budget, ensuring that best-in-class controls and governance are in place
• Foster, initiate and lead continuous improvement programs that reduce cost and our carbon footprint and improve the service performance of the operation
• Ensure successful project implementation
• Select, manage and develop long-term relationships with third-party service providers
• Ensure adherence to health and safety, quality, food defense and legal requirements and policies
• Establish a business continuity plan for logistics operations.
• Support best-practices sharing and adoption

What you will bring

A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career and the following experience and knowledge:

• Solid background in logistics with experience leading operations in an FMCG/CPG environment
• Team leadership experience, with proven ability to build effective teams and develop people
• Drive for results with proactive, dynamic and action orientated approach, identifying areas where business change is required and excellence in project management
• Strong collaboration skills with strong business and financial acumen and the ability to forge senior level strategic partnerships with both internal and external stakeholders
• Strategic thinking plus excellent presentation, communication, influencing and motivational skills
• Strong negotiating skills with ability to negotiate in tough situations with both internal and external groups

Resumen del Puesto:

Responsable de liderar la operación integral del almacén, garantizando la eficiencia, seguridad y calidad en los procesos de inbound y outbound, así como la gestión efectiva del inventario y la implementación de planes de continuidad del negocio. Supervisa y dirige al personal a su cargo para asegurar el cumplimiento de los objetivos del área.

Responsabilidades Principales:

• Liderazgo de Operaciones: Dirigir y supervisar todas las actividades operativas del almacén, incluyendo recepción, almacenamiento, picking, packing y despacho de productos.
• Gestión de Inventario: Asegurar la exactitud y control del inventario a través de la implementación de procedimientos y auditorías regulares.
• Seguridad: Garantizar el cumplimiento de las normas de seguridad e higiene en el almacén, previniendo accidentes y creando un ambiente de trabajo seguro.
• Calidad: Implementar y mantener los estándares de calidad en todos los procesos del almacén, asegurando la integridad de los productos.
• Planes de Continuidad del Negocio: Desarrollar, implementar y mantener actualizados los planes de continuidad del negocio para asegurar la operación del almacén ante cualquier eventualidad.
• Gestión de Personal: Supervisar, capacitar y evaluar al personal a cargo, fomentando un ambiente de trabajo colaborativo y de alto rendimiento.
• Inbound y Outbound: Optimizar los procesos de recepción y despacho de mercancías para garantizar la eficiencia y la reducción de costos.

Requisitos:

• Formación: Título universitario en Ingeniería, Administración de Empresas o carrera afín.
• Experiencia:
  • 5 años de experiencia en gestión de almacenes.
  • Experiencia en roles similares de liderazgo.
  • Experiencia en transporte (deseable).
• Habilidades:
  • Sólidas habilidades de comunicación interpersonal.
  • Experiencia comprobada en manejo de personal.
• Idioma: Inglés básico.

No Relocation support available

Business Unit Summary

Mondelez México has been in the country since 1927 and currently employs 6,000 wonderful people. Our diverse portfolio includes iconic and mouth-watering global brands such as Trident, Oreo, Philadelphia, and local jewels like Clorets and Bubbaloo. We are leaders in the making of cream cheese, powdered beverages and confections—in fact, we make seven out of every 10 chewing gums consumed by Mexicans. Our growth is supported by our cutting-edge manufacturing facilities, such as our Puebla Plant and Nuevo León HUB, which are the largest gums, candies and biscuits factories in the world in terms of volume. You can buy our products in 900,000 places in Mexico. We are also home to one of the 11 technology centers Mondelez International has worldwide, a specialized gum and candy facility that places us at the forefront of innovation and development in the country and drives our purpose to lead the future of snacking.We are pioneers in the country in work-life balance practices such as extended maternity leave, open spaces, remote work and flexible working hours.

Mondelēz International is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or preference, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Job Type Regular Warehousing & Logistics Operations Management Customer Service & Logistics