Warehouse & Inventory Coordinator

Simplot Australia is a food manufacturing and agriculture business encompassing potato, vegetable, seafood, and sauce operations that supply a wide range of frozen, shelf-stable and chilled products to Australia and New Zealand’s major retail and food service customers.

As a leading provider of quality, nourishing and sustainable food, we are focused on creating food Australians and New Zealanders love by maximising value from the best Australian-grown produce and global seafood. Our iconic brands have been an integral part of Australian life for generations, and include the likes of Leggo’s, Birds Eye, Edgell, John West and Chiko.

We have five manufacturing sites in Australia and six sales sites and employ almost 2000 people across these operations. We are an integral part of the global J.R. Simplot Company.

**Culture and Benefits**:
At Simplot, we are fuelled by our purpose: We Contribute to Feeding Our World. We imagine a better future and set goals to reach it. We are committed to working as one Simplot and are guided by our shared values:

- Respect for Resources
- Spirit of Innovation
- Passion for People

We embrace diversity, equity, and inclusion. We care about creating an environment that promotes safety and wellbeing and where our people feel supported, respected and empowered. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and are committed to providing equal opportunities for all our team members.

Simplot is passionate about cultivating a future where good ideas and inspiring possibilities have the chance to grow. We want our team members to build exciting and fulfilling careers with us and offer professional and personal growth opportunities.

**The Perks**:

- Flexible working arrangements and a variety of engaging Health and Wellbeing programs
- Diverse Leadership Development Programs and Professional Development Support
- Employee Reward and Recognition Program
- Discounted Health Insurance and Gym Memberships
- Sensory Club Program - Enjoy and taste our new product launches and access to our Culinary cooking sessions
- Novated Car Leasing Agreements
- Income Protection Insurance
- Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave

Simplot Australia values the innovation and relationship building that comes from face to face connection but also recognises the need for flexibility in the lives of our team members. This is why we have a hybrid work environment, with one dedicated day per week where we all come together to maintain our successful culture of innovation, connection and collaboration.

**About our role**:

- ** 14-month Fixed Term Contract**:

- ** Reconcile stock variances and action disputes daily**:

- ** Based at our corporate head office in Mentone/Moorabbin**

We now have an opportunity for a **Warehouse & Inventory Coordinator **to join our team based at our corporate head office in Mentone / Moorabbin. This is a **14-month Fixed Term / Maternity Leave contract.**

**What you will do**:
Reporting to the Logistics Warehouse & Inventory Manager you will ensure that all finished goods warehouses perform and maintain the standards as set out by Simplot Australia to deliver operational excellence, data integrity, and supply reliability to Simplot’s customer base. You will ensure controls are in place to ensure only product approved for distribution enters the marketplace and customer fulfilment requirements are met, as well as support ensuring that customer orders are fulfilled in full and on time:

- You will support the Supply Chain & Customer fulfilment department to maintain inventory accuracy & warehouse operations at 3PL warehouses nationally.
- You will work alongside our 3PL partners to work through daily operational issues and challenges as well as identify CI opportunities across both businesses to operate more efficiently
- You will work with our production sites to improve work practices, correct EDI errors when required to ensure customer orders are not impacted as well as resolve delivery disputes to ensure no disruption to customer supplies.
- Further to this you will answer daily queries around stock balances and availability to support business operations. Key to this role also includes interacting with the Logistics team (Operations, Transport & International) Deployment, Customer Service, QA and our Sales and Marketing teams as well as our external 3PL & Transport teams.

Most importantly you will ensure quality held and out-of-spec products do not enter the marketplace, monitor daily transactions and detect and fix discrepancies to prevent data integrity issues. Your continuous improvement mindset will assist projects to manage inventory & operations more effectively and efficiently.

**About you**:

- Energetic, motivated and highly organised individual with a continuous improvement mindset.
- Ability to work autonomously as well as part of a team.
- The ability to make well considered decisions’ and prioritise tasks balancing business imperatives