warehouse manager
Code 1324.3.4
The warehouse manager (encargado o supervisor de bodega / centro de distribución) runs receiving, storage, picking and dispatch with inventory control and safety. Use this Job Dictionary profile to profile warehouse leadership with Chilean language (bodega as well as warehouse).
Essential skills
Knowledge
- project management
- manage transport of goods from warehouse facilities
- safety regulations for warehouses
- warehousing regulations
- warehouse operations
Skills and competences
- create solutions to problems
- give instructions to staff
- build business relationships
- comprehend financial business terminology
- coach employees
- ensure stock storage safety
- ensure efficient utilisation of warehouse space
- manage dispatch software systems
- identify software for warehouse management
- maintain physical condition of warehouse
- maintain warehouse database
- improve business processes
- plan the stocking of products
- plan the dispatching of products
- plan future capacity requirements
- monitor storage space
- oversee freight-related financial documentation
- oversee warehouse value-added activities
- monitor security procedures in warehouse operations
- use different communication channels
- use a warehouse management system
Transversal competences
- apply safety management
- train employees
- maintain financial records
- create a work atmosphere of continuous improvement
- meet productivity targets
- ejercer con los colegas un rol de liderazgo orientado a los objetivos
- manage inventory
- manage warehouse organisation
- manage warehouse operations
- manage third-party logistics providers
- manage staff
- maintain stock control systems
- provide staff training in warehouse management
- programar turnos
- perform cost accounting activities
- work in a logistics team
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What to assess for this role
Assess operational order, shift leadership, fill-rate/accuracy KPI focus and safety.
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Common questions about this role when you are hiring or writing the job profile.
- What does a warehouse manager do?
- Organises layout and people, meets dispatches, protects inventory and applies safety rules on the floor.
- Why do Chileans say bodega?
- It is the dominant operational term in ads and on the floor; warehouse/almacén appears more in formal or European texts.
- What to measure when hiring?
- Ability to hold pace in peaks, shrink control and leadership of operational teams.
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Sources
This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission and the Mapha Taxonomy developed by OTIC SOFOFA (CC BY 4.0), in an adapted version. Group codes come from the ILO's ISCO-08. See sources and licences