What are the Key Deliverables in this role?

Financial Outcomes

• Evaluation and Validation: Understanding the financial impact of procurement and stores activities.

Internal Processes

• Experience in the stores management activities such as receipt and issue posting of the store’s materials in the Stock ledger.
• Space Utilization, Fumigation Planning and Control activity, Mini-Max, ABC Analysis, Non-Moving Items Control and maintaining the personal records for employees for issue of equipment, laptops, etc.
• Managing the physical loading, unloading, storage and Identification and preservation of the stores.
• Periodic physical stock verification of the stores from time to time and annual stock verification.
• Liaison with the purchase for the low stock and over stock items and follow up for the same.
• The capability of handling stores with very large number of items like Raw material, packing material and general stores shall be preferred. Manage the team to achieve the institute’s expected response. Work together with the indenter / user departments to ensure that required materials are made available to user departments.
• Scrap disposal, E Waste & Hazardous waste regulations where relevant, Used Oil, and Bio Waste.
• Work as part of the Central Stores team to share ideas and improve operation, recommending, supporting, and implementing continuous improvement activities and process and procedure improvements to optimize results and improve quality of delivery.
• Develop and maintain strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders to ensure optimal performance
• Creating and sharing purchase orders to the suppliers
• Bill submission to the Finance team for payment processing

What are the Critical success factors for the Role?

• Graduate in Commerce / Engineering. Preferably a Commerce graduate with Food industrial experience preferred
• Excellent leadership and man management skills. Preferably exposure to SAP based working Able to exercises some latitude and technical judgement in deciding work methods
• Ability to manage a variety of cross-functional team members. Excellent organizational and follow-up skills
• Computer proficiency (MS office, SAP, MIS reports)
• 2-3 years of experience in the Stores and Inventory Management – Inventory Control, Receipt, Issue and storage and maintain Store records

What are the Desirable success factors for the Role?

• Knowledge of Food industry preferably in Spice production, Ready to eat/cook
• Good communication skills (English, Telugu/Tamil).
• Proven experience in Stores departments within a factory
• Good in Manpower Management Skills