Warehouse Control Manager
IndiaOn-site
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Manages end-to-end warehouse operations across India and Africa, ensuring inventory integrity, safety, and team performance while leveraging SAP and WMS systems.
About this role
Job location: Mumbai, India
About the role:
We are seeking a dynamic and motivated Warehouse Control Manager to join our team. The Warehouse Control Manager will lead The Warehouse Control Manager owns end-to-end accountability for inventory integrity, safety, and team performance across a multi-country warehouse network spanning India and Africa (if required). It offers direct, visible impact on business outcomes, hands-on exposure to SAP/WMS-driven operations, and the chance to build the operational and people-leadership skills that are the foundation for senior supply chain roles. For someone who wants ownership rather than a checklist, this role delivers it from day one.
Warehousing is where inventory risk, cost leakage, and compliance exposure concentrate. The right Warehouse Control Manager protects the business from stock loss, failed audits, safety incidents, and fulfillment delays, while ensuring the inventory data that Finance, Sales, and Planning rely on stays accurate. Because this role spans multiple geographies, getting the hire right materially reduces operational and compliance risk across the entire warehouse network.
About the role:
We are seeking a dynamic and motivated Warehouse Control Manager to join our team. The Warehouse Control Manager will lead The Warehouse Control Manager owns end-to-end accountability for inventory integrity, safety, and team performance across a multi-country warehouse network spanning India and Africa (if required). It offers direct, visible impact on business outcomes, hands-on exposure to SAP/WMS-driven operations, and the chance to build the operational and people-leadership skills that are the foundation for senior supply chain roles. For someone who wants ownership rather than a checklist, this role delivers it from day one.
Warehousing is where inventory risk, cost leakage, and compliance exposure concentrate. The right Warehouse Control Manager protects the business from stock loss, failed audits, safety incidents, and fulfillment delays, while ensuring the inventory data that Finance, Sales, and Planning rely on stays accurate. Because this role spans multiple geographies, getting the hire right materially reduces operational and compliance risk across the entire warehouse network.
Key Responsibilities
- Operations: Handle day-to-day operations in the warehouse, ensuring smooth and efficient workflows with a pro-active approach.
- Tracking KPI’s: Track and report key warehouse KPIs (order accuracy, dispatch turnaround time, inventory accuracy, etc.
- Inventory Control: Track stock levels, prevent loss, and run routine audits.
- Inventory Audits: Conduct inventory audits on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis across all warehouses in India and, where required, in Africa.
- SOP: Creating warehouse SOP’s as per global standards and implementing it across all the warehouses.
- Team Leadership: Hire, train, schedule, and evaluate warehouse staff.
- Safety & Compliance: Enforce health, safety, and security regulations.
- Facility Maintenance: Inspect tools, machinery, and the overall warehouse layout.
- Accurate, audit-ready inventory records across all warehouses; a trained and accountable warehouse team; zero major safety or compliance incidents; and warehouse facilities maintained to a standard that supports uninterrupted operations.
- Good working knowledge of SAP & google docs
- Good negotiation skills and understanding of financial impact.
- In-bound out-bound packaging & logistics control management
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
- A bachelor's degree in any field, MBA preferred.
- 10-15 years of experience in warehouse operations, with at least 4 years in a managerial role(team management)
- Familiarity with C&F (Carrying & Forwarding) agent arrangements
- Working proficiency in SAP and Warehouse Management Systems (WMS).
- Strong command of MS Office (Excel in particular, for stock and audit reporting).
- Good communication and negotiation skills.
- Language proficiency of English and Hindi.
- Comfortable with extensive field travel.
Benefits
- Professional growth in a dynamic, rapidly expanding, high-social-impact industry
- An open-minded, collaborative culture made up of enthusiastic colleagues who are driven by the challenge of innovation towards profound impact on people and the planet.
- A truly multicultural experience: you will have the chance to work with and learn from people from different geographies, nationalities, and backgrounds.
- Structured, tailored learning and development programs that help you become a better leader, manager, and professional through the Sun King Center for Leadership.
Skills
C&F Agent ManagementExcelGoogle DocsInbound/outbound LogisticsInventory AuditsKPI TrackingMicrosoft OfficeSAPSOP DevelopmentWMS
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