The Inventory Lead role at M-KOPA Solar is critical for maintaining high stock accuracy and overseeing the efficient movement of materials across assigned locations. This role involves coordinating operations between material rooms and work areas, ensuring the smooth flow of thousands of smartphones and solar products from receipt through to customer deployment. The Inventory Lead is also responsible for leading and managing a team of inventory associates and officers, driving operational excellence, and providing strategic insights to management.
Key Responsibilities/Impact
- Material and Stock Management: Oversee material movement, stock accuracy, and resupply operations across assigned locations, coordinating between material rooms and work areas while leading a team of inventory associates and officers.
- Cross-Location Coordination: Coordinate cross-location inventory operations ensuring thousands of smartphones and solar products move smoothly from receipt to customer deployment.
- Reporting and Visibility: Develop reporting frameworks that provide management with real-time visibility into inventory accuracy and warehouse performance—data that directly informs scaling decisions.
- Stock Strategy Planning: Plan stock movement strategies that anticipate demand spikes when launching in new territories or introducing new products.
- Auditing and Reconciliation: Lead cycle counts and monthly stock takes, involving coordinating multiple team members, validating complex reconciliations, and ensuring every discrepancy is investigated and resolved.
- Continuous Improvement: Champion continuous improvement initiatives, including implementing 6S methodologies, recommending warehouse layout optimizations, and driving process enhancements that improve efficiency as the company scales.
- Quality Control & Escalation: Validate patterns in returns or defective items, escalate issues to the right stakeholders, and recommend process improvements to prevent future occurrences.
- Team Leadership & Insight: Coordinate task allocation for the team, ensuring deadlines are met even during busy periods, and provide management with insights and recommendations on warehouse performance, risks, and optimization opportunities.
Qualifications and Requirements
- Education: BA/BSc/HND qualification.
- Experience & Leadership: Demonstrable progressive experience in inventory and material handling operations, including proven success in a supervisory or team lead capacity where you've coordinated multiple people and improved operational outcomes.
- Technical Proficiency: Established expertise in ERP systems and advanced Excel proficiency, with the ability to build reporting frameworks, analyze stock data, and translate inventory metrics into actionable business insights.
- Operational Excellence: Strong track record in leading operational improvement initiatives, including experience championing process optimization, implementing quality standards (such as 6S), and driving measurable improvements in accuracy and efficiency.
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