Warehouse Operations Manager
inMusic, Germany
Job Description
About Us:
inMusic is a family of leading music technology and consumer electronic brands. We live and breathe music. We incorporate and build upon the latest engineering, design, and technology in the DJ, Music Production, Pro Audio, Musical Instrument, and Consumer Electronics industries. Some of our leading brands are: Akai Professional, Alesis, Alto Professional, Denon DJ, Denon Professional, ION Audio, Marantz Professional, M-Audio, MixMeister, Moog, Rane, Numark and Sonivox.
About The Role:
As a Warehouse Operations Manager, you lead the entire operational team in the warehouse. You are end-to-end responsible for warehouse operations and quality control. You coach and lead your team in the achievement of daily objectives whilst monitoring performance and development of KPIs. You are always striving to improve the current way of working.
Your Responsibilities:
- Strategically manage warehouse in compliance with company’s policies and vision.
- Provide strong leadership to the warehousing team, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
- Implement and enforce best practices in inventory management, order fulfillment, and shipping/receiving processes.
- Ensure efficient space utilization and continuously improve operations efficiency based on KPI measurement and management.
- Manage stock control and reconcile with data storage system.
- Liaise with international logistics and service departments and transport companies, conduct negotiation on Terms and Conditions with forwarders.
- Plan work routines, assign tasks appropriately and appraise results.
- Recruit, select, coach, and motivate employees, prepare annual plan regarding costs and manpower.
- Plan and manage temporarywork agency requirements
- Leading a team of approx. 15-20 people
- Produce reports and statistics regularly in order to manage operational performance and utilization
- Implementing measures to standardize and increase logistics efficiency in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams
- Inventory management and physical stock take ownership
- Maintain standards of health and safety, hygiene, and security, adhere to all warehousing, handling and shipping legislation requirements.
- Appling subject matter expert knowledge to solve common business issues.
Requirements
- Minimum 5 years work experience as a logistics or warehouse manager.
- Expertise in warehouse management procedures, software databases, and best practices.
- Fluent in German and English.
- Proven ability to implement process improvement initiatives.
- Strong knowledge of warehousing Key Performance Indicators, Objectives and Key Results
- Excellent communicator and decision maker, sympathy, and sound leadership.
- Understanding the overall nature of the business and the interdependencies between own and other functions.
- Experience with Warehouse Management Systems.
Benefits
Why Join Us:
- Innovative Environment: Be part of a forward-thinking company that values creativity and innovative solutions.
- Collaborative Culture: Join a team of passionate professionals, working together to achieve remarkable goals.
- Total Rewards: We offer an excellent Total Rewards package that includes generous time off, employee support programs, and employee discounts on inMusic products.
inMusic celebrates diversity. We are an equal opportunity employer, recognizing that future success in a highly competitive marketplace depends on our employees and their development.
All applicants will receive equal consideration for employment at inMusic and we encourage everyone to apply regardless of color, race, nationality, ethnic or national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, religion or belief or disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.