Warehouse Management Associate

The Warehouse Management Associate is responsible for managing a range of warehouse activities including safeguarding commodities and supplies, ensuring well-organized warehousing and storage services in compliance with WFP guidelines. The role involves planning and managing warehouse operations, coordinating commodity receipt and dispatch, inventory management, and supervising warehouse staff.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for the effective planning and management of warehouse operations, to ensure safe and efficient warehousing and storage of all commodities and supplies.
• Contribute to review of WFP corporate warehouse standards and procedures, to support efficiency and changing business needs.
• Coordinate the receipt/dispatch of commodities, to ensure accurate recording, accounting, and reporting is available at all times to support decision-making.
• Responsible for the accuracy of warehouse transaction records including identification of discrepancies, to ensure immediate and accurate reporting on commodity movements in line with the corporate requirements.
• Responsible for inventory management (e.g., physical stock verification, reporting, etc.), to ensure any existing and developing issues with regards to proper stocks management are timely addressed and WFP standard procedures for commodity handling and storage are strictly followed.
• Supervise preparation and/or prepare regular and ad hoc reports and statistics on warehouse operations, to support informed planning and decision-making.
• Oversee safeguarding of commodities through providing guidance on and taking initiative towards implementation of preventive measures, to ensure that commodities are preserved in good condition and that quality control actions are initiated as appropriate following WFP established procedures.
• Review on periodic basis warehouse space availability, plan and implement new design layouts to support business needs and ensure cost-efficiency.
• Work in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders, in order to deliver aligned and coherent warehouse services.
• Identify training needs and efficiently plan trainings, to ensure that all staff have required knowledge and skills to carry out their responsibilities.
• Supervise warehouse staff, to ensure high performance standards.
• Perform other related duties or assignments in line with the position level and expertise as assigned by activity manager.

Requirements

• Completion of secondary school education. A Bachelor’s degree in Logistics, Supply Chain, Business Administration, Economics, Engineering, Information technology, Mathematics, Data Science, Operational Research, and Business Analytics or any other related functional area is desirable.
• Minimum 6 years of experience in Supply Chain-related industry, Logistics, Warehousing, Material distribution Procurement, Contracting or Administration is required.
• Experience maintaining a logistics database and running queries on ongoing shipments, pipeline information, insurance claims, and food stock.
• Experience in administering third party service providers’ contracts.
• Experience in compiling contract documentation.
• Experience in contract execution.
• Experience in budget monitoring and reporting.
• Fluency in both oral and written communication in English and Urdu.

Skills

• Warehouse Operations
• Inventory Management
• Logistics Database Management
• Supply Chain Management
• Contract Administration
• Contract documentation handling
• Contract Execution
• Budget Monitoring
• Budget Reporting
• Third Party Service Provider Management
• Material Distribution
• Procurement
• Data Querying
• Commodity Receipt Coordination
• Commodity Dispatch Coordination

Languages

English, Urdu