Assistant Plant Manager (Warehouse and Inventory)

East-West Seed (Nonthaburi, Thailand)

Nonthaburi, Thailand

East-West Seed breeds and produces high quality vegetable seeds for tropical conditions.East-West Seed breeds and produces high quality vegetable seeds for tropical conditions.

About this position

We're seeking for a Assistant Plant Manager (Warehouse and Inventory) to oversee daily warehouse, inventory, and logistics operations. Key responsibilities include managing third-party logistics, optimizing inventory, ensuring packing material processes, enforcing safety standards, and achieving KPIs. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, proactive, and skilled in team management, driving alignment with supply chain objectives and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Assist Plant Manager in organizing and managing day-to-day activities of Warehouse and Inventory
• Manage receiving, warehousing, distribution, and maintenance operations
• Analyses excess and obsolete/aging inventory. Takes appropriate action for optimizing inventory performance, in collaboration with sales, marketing, manufacturing, procurement and logistics
• Responsible for managing the 3rd party logistics partners, warehouses and ensuring that they achieve their set key performance indicators
• Collaborate closely with the supply chain team to align warehouse operations with broader supply chain objectives
• Ensure the packing materials available in the warehouse as per the alignment with the planner
• Ensure to maintain complete control on the packing materials rejections from the plant and to ensure that rejected packing materials returns to the supplier on time and align with the finance and procurement to have the recovery from the supply
• Overall alignment with the plant for the packing, processing planning
• Implement and enforce standard Work Instruction (WI) for receiving, storage, and distribution activities
• Setup and maintain protection plan for security of all property
• Keep good corporate and communication to all parties for smooth operational and team working
• Ensure key activities for such productivity tools are implement and maintained
• Fully supports, accurately completes, maintains, instills, and reinforces Health, Safety, and Environmental policies/ procedures and relevant the government the government rules and regulation
• Prepare and monitor the monthly KPIs, as described by the management and ensure that those are being achieved

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in supply chain, Logistics, Business Administration or related fields
• Minimum 3 years of experience in warehouse operations/logistics & supply chain management
• Strong knowledge of warehousing Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
• Good analytical skills, good with numbers and attention to detail
• Proactive, detail-oriented, and possessing strong problem-solving skills
• Strong people management skill and self-motivation and ability to build teamwork
• Good computer skills and can communicate in English
• Knowledge of safety regulations and best practices in warehouse operations