Warehouse Assistant Manager

Miejsce pracy: Katowice

Your responsibilities

"Scope - European warehouses
Performance management for 50 Unilever Distribution Centres (DC) located across Europe (Unilever own and 3PL). Those DCs are responsible for intake of the goods delivered from factories (by primary transport), storage and preparation of deliveries (executed by 2Y transport).
Benchmarking and Best Practice sharing across the various warehouses and defining what gret looks like aligned to global operating standards.
Driving 5% Savings YOY on a total Spend of 250m € across these warehouses working closely with in market teams to find opportunities and driving execution with impeccable project management.
Continuous improvement agenda - ongoing process mapping across EU (internal and benchmark) for identification and reduction of inefficiencies (gap closure) and proposing best in class solutions for efficient warehouse management and cost control.
Locking Robotics and Automation Road map for every warehouse and optimizing throughput
Role is independent (owning execution of the change management progress) requires experience (proficient knowledge of the processes) and excellent communication with multiple stakeholders to catch dependencies within the process and than ensure the proposed solution will be implemented across EU and execute properly (i.e. process and its execution of standards for repalletization at all DC). Project management from understanding/identification the opportunity/gap to implementation and execution.
Role is being supervised by diect line manager (WL2) and is responsible for onboarding the new joiner and further mentoring (if needed)
Role is having contacts with external parties 3PL (transport and warehouse operators) conducting the performance review excluding contact with the final customer (as being done by Customer Experience / Customer Facing team.

Our requirements

Experiences & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in logistic is advantage

• Minimum 5 yrs of experience in warehouse management

• Comprehensive knowledge of logistics

• Business acumen and customer-centric mindset

• Non siloed approach / open minded

• Ability to leverage analytical skills to correlate insights across various data sets

• Strong analytical skills to identify improvement areas and bleeders

• Proper stakeholder management to establish European world class logistics

• Project lead experience

• Power BI and SQL working knowledge prefered

Skills

• Data Driven Decision Making

• Problem Solving

• Business Acumen

• Storytelling and Influencing

• Strong communication skills to articulate analysis and insights vs reporting data

• Proficient English skills (written and spoken)

Leadership

•You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.

•As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.

Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors

• PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.

• PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.

• CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.

• PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.

• AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.

What we offer

Hybrid work and flexibility
Opportunities for the development and improvement of qualifications
Sharing the cost of professional training & courses
Benefits: life insurance, private medical care, pension fund, sharing the cost of sports activities, Benefits System – Cafeteria and many others
Extra days off to take care of yourself and others
Unilever store - Our products at attractive prices

Benefits

sharing the costs of sports activities
private medical care
sharing the costs of foreign language classes
sharing the costs of professional training & courses
life insurance
remote work opportunities
fruits
corporate products and services at discounted prices
retirement pension plan
coffee / tea
parking space for employees
leisure zone
extra social benefits
christmas gifts
employee referral program
charity initiatives
extra leave
hybrid work

Purpose of Job

Unilever is the place where you can bring your purpose to life with the work that you do – creating a better business and a better world. If you are an aspiring supply chain professional with a passion for numbers, processes and a drive to make an impact, then this role is just for you!

Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.