E2E Logistics Manager

City: Johannesburg

The E2E Logistics Manager provides strategic and operational leadership over all logistics and warehousing activities, managing both inbound and outbound operations. The role ensures effective inventory control, efficient warehouse performance, and dependable distribution to customers and retail partners. Key priorities include optimizing inbound and outbound processes, reducing operational costs and inventory write offs, maintaining strong internal controls compliance, and ensuring full adherence to health, safety, environmental (HS&E), and quality standards.

1. Supply Chain Strategy and Leadership

• Develop and execute integrated logistics, warehousing, and inventory strategies while leading logistics and warehouse teams to meet business objectives
• Drive supply chain efficiency, cost optimisation, and continuous improvement through process excellence and the implementation of digital technologies such as ERP, WMS, and planning systems.

2. Warehouse Operations Management

• Oversee end to end warehouse operations, including receiving, storage, inventory control, order fulfilment, and dispatch, while ensuring FIFO/FEFO compliance and high stock accuracy.
• Optimise warehouse layout, space utilisation, and productivity through efficient processes and continuous operational improvements.
• Implement and leverage warehouse management systems (WMS) and best practices to drive accuracy, efficiency, and performance

3. Inventory Management

• Develop and implement inventory control strategies to optimise stock levels while ensuring accurate visibility across all warehouses and distribution centres.
• Monitor inventory performance indicators, including turnover, days of inventory on hand, and slow moving stock, to support informed decision making.
• Minimise stock losses, damage, and obsolescence by aligning inventory availability with demand through close collaboration with sales and production teams

4. Distribution and Transportation Management

• Manage outbound distribution to ensure efficient, cost effective delivery to customers and retail partners, including oversight of fleet operations and third party logistics providers.
• Monitor transport performance and costs while negotiating and managing logistics contracts to drive service excellence and efficiency.

5. Financial and Cost Management

• Develop and manage logistics and warehousing budgets while monitoring transportation, storage, and inventory costs relative to sales.
• Drive cost reduction and optimal resource utilisation across the supply chain through efficiency and effective financial control.

6. Compliance, Safety and Risk Management

• Ensure full compliance with occupational health, safety, and regulatory requirements across warehousing, logistics, storage, and distribution operations.
• Implement safety, risk mitigation, and business continuity plans to protect people, products, and supply chain continuity.

7. Performance Management and Reporting

• Establish, track, and monitor key supply chain performance indicators, including service levels, inventory accuracy, production adherence, and logistics performance.
• Deliver regular performance reporting to executive leadership and leverage analytics to identify improvement opportunities.

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Industrial Engineering, Operations Management, or Business Administration
• Postgraduate qualification (Honours or Masters) in Supply Chain Management or Operations Management will be advantageous.
• Minimum 10-15 years of experience across supply chain, logistics, production planning, or operations, including at least 5 years in a senior leadership role.
• Strong FMCG manufacturing experience within multinational environments, managing high volume inventory and complex distribution networks.
• Proven capability in managing third party logistics (3PL) partners and leading large scale warehousing and distribution operations.
• Demonstrated expertise in supply chain systems and methodologies, including SAP ERP, WMS, MRP, inventory optimisation, forecasting, production scheduling, analytics, and lean continuous improvement.

Supply Chain Management, Business Partnership, Collaboration and partnership building, Relationship Management, Business acumen, Productivity management, Improve business processes, Advanced Analytics, Data Analytics, Supply Chain Planning, Logistics Management.

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. We invest in the wellbeing of our people through parental benefits, an Employee Assistance Program to promote mental health, and life insurance for all employees globally. We have a range of other benefits in line with the local market. Through our global share plans we offer the opportunity to save and share in Reckitt's potential future successes. For eligible roles, we also offer short term incentives to recognise, appreciate and reward your work for delivering outstanding results. You will be rewarded in line with Reckitt's pay for performance philosophy.

We recognise that in real life, great people don't always 'tick all the boxes'. That's why we hire for potential as well as experience. Even if you don't meet every point on the job description, if this role and our company feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, disability or medical condition; colour, ethnicity, race, citizenship, and national origin; religion, faith; pregnancy, family status and caring responsibilities; sexual orientation; sex, gender identity, gender expression, and transgender identity; protected veteran status; size or any other basis protected by appropriate law.