Warehouse & Distribution Manager -India

With over 85 years as an industrial technology leader, Kennametal Inc. delivers productivity to customers through materials science, tooling and wear-resistant solutions. Customers across aerospace and defence, earthworks, energy, general engineering and transportation turn to Kennametal to help them manufacture with precision and efficiency. Learn more at www.kennametal.com. Follow @Kennametal: Instagram, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube.

Title: Warehouse & Distribution Manager

Location: Bangalore, India

Qualification

• Bachelor or higher degree, major in logistics, business administration or international trade is
  
  

Preferred

• Has 10+ years working experience in logistics operation (warehouse, transportation, import and
  
  

export) with minimum 5 years as supervisor or manager.

• Good English speaking and writing
• Good windows office skill (excel, word, PPT, etc.)
• Has SAP experience is preferred
• Compliance, hard working with strong responsibility
• Good team leader and player, open and self-driven.
  
  

Responsibilities

• Manage the Distribution Center warehouse, in our Bangalore plant, including the daily operation
  
  

(receiving, storage, shipping, return & scrap, etc.,), security, system (SAP & KIS) and 5S.

• The Distribution center manager is also responsible for managing the operations of the Central
  
  

Stores for Bangalore Mfg Plants (Raw Material/Consumables/Packaging/Spares) and the Vender

Cell.

• Lead whole warehouse team and manage their performance, training, hiring and dismissing.
• Manage the import, export and local delivery to customers in India.
• Manage the logistics vendor performance for 3PL warehouse, brokers, local and corporate
  
  

carriers.

• Responsible for the warehouse budget planning and actual spending.
• Responsible for the best safety, EHS and trade compliance of warehouse and logistics in India.
• Closely follow and work with corporate and regional logistics team.
• Closely interact with internal (Mfg plant, Sales, CSR, QA, Finance, Legal, EHS, HR) and external
  
  

stakeholders (customs, customers, suppliers, suppliers, etc.,) as logistics leader in India.

• Main KPI (include but not limited): Safety, On time Delivery, Productivity (line processed
  
  

/hour/operator), Quality (error per million lines shipped), Cost (actual spending vs Plan), Stock

accuracy (cycle count bin accuracy).

As part of our core values, Kennametal is committed to providing an inclusive and welcoming environment for all people. We are an Equal Opportunity employer.