Warehouse Manager DACH
Reckitt · Prague
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- Warehouse Manager DACH
- City: Prague
- We are Reckitt
- Home to the world's best loved and trusted hygiene, health, and nutrition brands. Our purpose defines why we exist: to protect, heal and nurture in the relentless pursuit of a cleaner, healthier world. We are a global team united by this purpose. Join us in our fight to make access to the highest quality hygiene, wellness, and nourishment a right and not a privilege.
- Supply
- Our supply chain is the backbone of our business. It's how we get our trusted products to people all over the world, safely and efficiently. And it's our talented and passionate teams that make this happen. If you're looking for a career in supply chain, there's no better place to be than Reckitt. We offer a variety of exciting opportunities in all areas of the supply chain, from planning and procurement to manufacturing and logistics. You could join our Global Supply Planning team to develop and implement our global supply strategy, or work with our Procurement Centre of Excellence team to negotiate and manage our supplier relationships. Our Manufacturing Excellence team help us improve the efficiency, quality and safety of our manufacturing operations, and our Logistics Excellence team develop new and innovative ways to distribute our products to customers.
- Your responsibilities
3 PL & Warehouse Management
- Act as the single point of contact between Reckitt and the 3PL.
- Monitor daily warehouse operations (inbound, storage, picking, packing, Embellishment (VAS), outbound).
- Ensure operations are executed in line with SOPs, SLAs, KPIs, and contractual scope
- Conduct daily/weekly/monthly performance reviews with the 3PL
- Ensure the 3PL is adequately prepared for peak periods and EMB campaigns
- Provide clear operational visibility on risks, constraints, and mitigation plans
- Lead on-site issue resolution for service failures, quality deviations, and delays
- Go-live and ramp up support by being on site and co-ordinate between 3 PL & Colleagues from German office.
Inventory & Storage management:
- Oversee inventory accuracy, traceability, and stock integrity
- Manage Cycle count procedure with 3 PL and monitor the inventory discrepancy & root cause (Warehouse damage, factory damage etc).
- Ensure optimum utilization of storage locations in warehouse in collaboration with 3 PL.
Inbound and Outbound
- Co-ordination & Prioritization of Inbound & Outbound including time slot management with colleagues from German office (Supply planning. Logistics and customer service).
- Freight out order consolidation asper agreement Reckitt control tower concept.
- Manage order consolidation across two companies operating from the same warehouse to maximize synergies
- Align closely with the 3PL, transport planners, and internal stakeholders to combine compatible orders into optimized loads
- On-site point of contact for hauliers for time slot management.
- Support logistics colleagues from German office related to claims made by hauliers (On time arrival, demurrage etc).
Embellishment or Value-added Services
- Ensure Embellishment production orders placed by Embellishment planner from german office is delivered by 3 PL on time & in full.
- On-Site support to manage Embellishment capacities & throughput.
- Control the Embellishment cost proposal made by 3 PL for each new EMB SKU.
Quality, Compliance & Safety
- Ensure compliance with quality standards, audit requirements, and company policies.
- Ensure health, safety, and housekeeping standards are maintained by the 3PL
- Support internal and external audits and closure of findings
KPI Reporting and Analysis
- Own and review daily, weekly, and monthly warehouse performance reports provided by the 3PL.
- Track, Analyse and validate key KPIs such as productivity, service level, inventory accuracy, order fulfilment, EMB throughput
- Prepare root-cause analysis for service failures, backlogs, and missed SLAs, ensuring actions address underlying issues.
- Prepare Ad-hoc reports asper line-managers request. 3 PL Collaboration and Improvements
- Identify performance gaps and agree on corrective and preventive actions (CAPAs)
- Support joint improvement projects with clear ownership and benefits tracking.
- Strengthen the partnership while ensuring accountability remains with the 3PL
- Track and report progress on continuous improvement initiatives and agreed action plans.
- The experience we're looking for
- At least Bachelor Degree in Business Administration, Logistics or Engineering.
- At least. 5-7 years of experience in Warehouse management & Transport.
- Work Experience ideally in FMCG industry or similar work environment.
- Work experience in engaging Freight forwarders.
- Knowledge of dangerous goods & customs.
- Excellent MS-Office Skills. Especially Excel skills.
- Working Experience in SAP or Similar ERP system.
- Working experience in Blue Yonder or Similar WMS system.
- Experience in Oracle Transport management (OTM) or similar transport management tools.
- Experience in dealing with logistic service providers.
- Deep understanding of Processes in Warehouse and Transport.
- Basic understanding of budget management.
- Leadership & Stakeholder management Skills.
- Analytical and conceptional competencies.
- Cross-functional thinking.
- Goal-oriented working style.
- Language skills: English & Czech fluent (must), German (nice to have).
- The skills for success
- Supply Chain Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration, Partnership building, Relationship management, Business accumen, Productivity management, Logistics management, Project management, Improve business processes, Advanced analytics, Data analytics, Manufacturing excellence, Ecommerce.
- What we offer
- With inclusion at the heart of everything we do, working alongside our four global Employee Resource Groups, we support our people at every step of their career journey, helping them to succeed in their own individual way.