Warehousing & Distribution Manager

**Warehousing & Distribution Manager**

Richmond, VIC, AU, 3121

**About us**:
We’re a team that cares about you and your community. CitiPower and Powercor Australia is an essential service, supplying reliable, safe and affordable electricity vital for our customers and a clean energy future.

In designing and delivering these services, our people are united by a real sense of purpose to empower customer choices in ways that are important for our communities and the environment. We value inclusive leadership and teams and celebrate the results of succeeding together. But our greatest priority is the health, safety and wellbeing of our people and the communities we operate within. This includes their physical safety - ensuring everyone gets home safely everyday - as well as their psychological safety by ensuring everyone has the resources and support needed to achieve a work-life balance and be the best they can be.

**About the Role**:
A rare permanent opportunity for a Warehouse and Distribution Manager to lead and manage all physical activities for Network Services materials including distribution centre, field distribution centres and transportation.

To manage key supply chain stakeholders including warehouse and distribution, supply chain field officers, outsourced warehousing and logistics contractors and liaise with other stakeholders in the supply chain.

**What you’ll deliver**:

- Manage inventory, warehousing and logistics management in accordance with prescribed Powercor network Services(PNS) policies and procedures including demand, forecasting, inventory costs, stock availability, aged stock, process alignment, stock leakage and meet internal and external customer needs for supply chain
- Liaise with key business stakeholders to understand potential changes in material usage patterns in order to ensure stock levels are sufficient to cater for business requirements
- Manage compliance to HSEQ standards for supply chain and logistics operations across network services and including contractors
- Manage and lead PNS warehousing and distribution functions and personnel
- Manage logistics contracts including the provision of third party logistics (3PL) for distribution centre (DC), scraping and refurbishment
- Manage field distribution centres (FDC) operations including resource and inventory to achieve target service levels
- Ensure timely goods receipting of inventory in order to update stock holdings and facilitate invoice payment
- Work with Procurement as a Subject Matter Expert in negotiating changes to warehousing or logistics contracts to improve value for money or meet changing customer and business needs
- Develop the capabilities, skills and behaviours of team to meet current and future requirements in line with business’s values and behaviours

**To succeed in this role you’ll have**:

- Tertiary qualification in Logistics or Supply Chain Management or, relevant Business, Management or Finance degree
- Detailed knowledge of supply chain and logistics practices
- Sound knowledge of SAP Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) in relation to logistics and Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)
- Leadership and management of an end-to-end delivery function
- Electrical distribution construction or design experience would be desirable
- Experience in managing an outsource distribution centre arrangement would be advantageous
- Experience in leading, coaching and driving a high performance workgroup

**Your career with us**:
When you join our business, your work-life balance and career development are high priorities. We place emphasis on your development through diverse training programs, leadership courses and internal opportunities.

We have a diversity of teams across our business, all contributing to great customer and community outcomes. Our people are our most important asset, and we continually invest in nurturing their capability.

We proudly strive to provide a safe, inclusive and sustainable environment where all our people feel respected, valued and supported to bring their whole selves to work and be the best they can be.

With an embedded Inclusion & Diversity Strategy and initiatives like our Women in Power networking group, and Sparkle, our LGBTIQ+ allies pride network, we’re committed to equal opportunities for all employees.

**Some of our benefits**:

- Exposure to industry leading practices within a strong and stable company
- A great incentives package including an annual performance bonus, health and fitness subsidy, salary packaging options and much more.
- A supportive team culture

CitiPower and Powercor is an Equal Opportunity Employer
OUR VALUES: Live safely, Be Customer and Community Minded, Succeed Together, Be The Best You Can Be, Improve Our Business

**Job Segment**:Logistics, Supply Chain Manager, Supply Chain, ERP, Sustainability, Operations, Technology, Energy

**Job Type**: Permanent