Manager - Store

Role Overview and Responsibilities

The Manager - Store will be in charge of establishing and managing the stores and warehouse for a Greenfield solar cell manufacturing plant in Nagpur. This role involves setting up the entire store infrastructure and ensuring smooth inventory and warehouse operations aligned with project requirements.

Greenfield Project Setup

• Design and implement the entire warehouse and store facilities for the new plant.
• Develop layouts, storage techniques, materials flow plans, and warehouse zoning strategies.
• Plan and organize racking systems, storage containers, material handling devices, and identification protocols.
• Create and enforce Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), work instructions, and inventory control methodologies.
• Collaborate effectively with project, procurement, engineering teams, and contractors throughout plant construction and commissioning phases.

Inventory and Warehouse Management

• Oversee proper receiving, inspection, preservation, storage, and issuance of materials.
• Maintain optimal inventory balances to prevent shortages or excess stock.
• Track inventory status such as ageing, slow-moving, obsolete and inactive materials.
• Conduct periodic physical stock counts and reconcile them with ERP data.
• Ensure implementation of FIFO/FEFO wherever applicable to inventory processes.

Material Planning and Coordination

• Coordinate seamlessly with Procurement, Planning, Production, Quality Assurance, Maintenance, and Project teams to ensure uninterrupted material supply.
• Manage timely inward and outward material movements.
• Monitor consumption of project materials maintaining full traceability.

ERP System and Documentation

• Implement and sustain ERP-based inventory management control.
• Ensure accuracy of Goods Receipt Notes, material issue, stock transfers, returns, and other inventory transactions.
• Generate regular Management Information System reports for inventory, stock valuation, usage, and warehouse efficiency.
• Maintain thorough documentation to comply with audits and statutory inspections.

Team Leadership

• Build and lead a competent stores team during project implementation and ongoing plant operations.
• Delegate responsibilities and monitor team performance.
• Provide regular training on warehouse safety, ERP systems, and effective inventory management practices.

Compliance and Safety Management

• Ensure adherence to company policies, statutory regulations, and internal audit compliances.
• Maintain warehouse cleanliness and organization through 5S methodology.
• Manage safe storage protocols for hazardous, electrical, mechanical, and vital spare parts.
• Support internal, external, and statutory audits as required.

Continuous Improvement

• Lead initiatives for warehouse automation and process enhancement.
• Optimize utilization of warehouse space and improve material handling workflows.
• Develop and track KPIs such as inventory accuracy, material availability, inventory turnover, and warehouse productivity.
• Implement Lean Warehouse practices and Kaizen for continual improvements.

Preferred Qualifications and Outcomes

• Prior experience successfully establishing Greenfield store operations before plant commissioning.
• Achievement of complete inventory accuracy via strong control mechanisms.
• Ensuring punctual availability of project and production materials.
• Reduction of inventory carrying costs and minimization of ageing stock.
• Strict compliance with ERP protocols and audit standards.
• Effective optimization of warehouse space.
• Zero material loss due to safe storage and handling practices.
• Maintaining exemplary safety standards and housekeeping.

Eligibility

Applicants with a minimum qualification of any graduate degree are eligible for this position.