A nationally recognised organisation with a vertically integrated manufacturing and supply chain with locations across Australia. With renewed investment, the business is looking to improve operational maturity including systems and processes.
About the role
This hands-on leadership role owns inventory, demand planning, transport/shipping procurement and warehouse management systems across a high-complexity SKU base with an international manufacturing partner and a combined manufacture-to-delivery lead time of around 8 weeks.
This is a build-and-stabilise mandate - you'll be expected to deliver visible, measurable improvement within existing systems and constraints, not propose a green-field redesign.
What you'll be doing
- Owning inventory accuracy and rationalisation, and establishing min/max parameters and demand-planning discipline for top-selling and critical SKUs
- Managing transport and international shipping procurement, reducing cost-to-serve and improving reliability of inbound/outbound logistics
- Coaching and lifting the capability of your Warehouse Manager and Inventory Manager
- Improving WMS and bin/location discipline within the existing ERP and barcode infrastructure
- Establishing tripwire and exception-based reporting for early visibility of stock, service and cost issues
- Reporting supply chain performance directly to the CFO and executive team
- Proven supply chain/inventory leadership in a multi-site or high-SKU-count retail, manufacturing or distribution business
- Hands-on operating style - comfortable on the floor and working with imperfect or legacy systems
- International sourcing and freight experience, ideally with manufacture-to-delivery lead times of similar length and complexity
- A track record of pragmatic, fast wins rather than long-form transformation
- Direct, confident communicator used to reporting to senior stakeholders
- Resilient - comfortable operating with ambiguity and imperfect data
- Base + super, plus a bonus structure tied to inventory and cost-to-serve outcomes
- A genuine mandate to shape and fix a function, backed by supportive ownership
- Direct exposure to the C-suite
