Warehouse Lead

About the Company

Filtrona is the only global, independent market leader in the design, testing and manufacturing of specialist filter solutions and related scientific services. With a head office in Singapore, Filtrona has 9 manufacturing facilities across Europe, America, and Asia, together with 2 innovation centers, an accredited laboratory and a Centre of Excellence focused on sustainability. The company has 2,000 employees serving customers across 120 countries. Our purpose is to support partners to transform and benefit from business growth; we succeed when they succeed. Our mission is to be a responsible, customer-focused innovation leader creating excellence in sustainable solutions for today and tomorrow.

For more information, please visit www.filtrona.com

About the Role

Supervise warehouse operations, employees, inventory, and distribution activities to ensure safe, accurate, efficient, and cost-effective warehouse performance while maintaining inventory accuracy, traceability, customer service, regulatory compliance, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

Warehouse Operations Management

• Coordinate and supervise receiving, storage, picking, packing, dispatch, and internal material movement activities.
• Ensure proper storage conditions and warehouse layout optimization.
• Ensure effective utilization of warehouse space, labor, and equipment.
• Maintain material identification, segregation, and traceability.

Inventory Accuracy & Control

• Ensure inventory accuracy between physical stock and SAP records.
• Coordinate cycle count, stock count, reconciliation, and variance investigations.
• Lead corrective actions for inventory discrepancies.
• Ensure stock integrity and inventory control processes.

SAP & Transaction Compliance

• Ensure all warehouse transactions are posted accurately and timely in SAP S/4HANA.
• Maintain batch traceability and transaction compliance.
• Support troubleshooting of warehouse transaction issues.

Material Availability & FIFO/FEFO

• Ensure availability of materials to support production plans.
• Monitor inventory levels and aging stock.
• Ensure FIFO/FEFO compliance for material issuance and shipment.
• Coordinate alternatives when required materials are unavailable.

Distribution & Customer Service

• Ensure accurate picking, packing, and shipment according to customer requirements.
• Coordinate transportation planning and shipment consolidation.
• Support on-time delivery and customer service performance.

Safety, Compliance & Operational Governance

• Ensure full compliance with Health, Safety, Environmental (HSE/LK3), company policies, warehouse procedures, and applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure all inbound, outbound, and internal material movement processes are executed in accordance with approved procedures, supported by complete and accurate documentation, and recorded correctly in SAP.
• Ensure all warehouse transactions are properly authorized, fully traceable, and supported by valid documentation to maintain inventory integrity, data accuracy, and audit readiness.
• Conduct routine compliance assessments of warehouse operations to verify adherence to standard operating procedures, documentation requirements, and internal control standards.
• Promote a strong culture of safety, compliance, accountability, operational discipline, integrity, and continuous improvement across all warehouse activities.

Team Leadership & Development

• Lead, coach, train, and develop team.
• Prepare shift schedules and manpower allocation.

Continuous Improvement

• Identify and implement improvement projects.
• Support Lean, IWS, FEM, and operational excellence initiatives.
• Support continuous improvement (Kaizen) initiatives by actively identifying improvement opportunities, implementing sustainable solutions, and encouraging team participation to achieve established Kaizen targets.
• Improve warehouse productivity, quality, and service performance.

Investigation & Corrective Actions

• Lead investigations related to stock discrepancies, shipment errors, damage, and complaints.
• Implement corrective and preventive actions.

Qualifications & requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Industrial Engineering, Management, Business Statistics, Business Administration, or other related disciplines.
• Minimum 5 years of experience in warehouse, logistics, inventory control, supply chain, or materials management within a manufacturing environment, including at least 2 years in a supervisory role.
• Strong knowledge of warehouse operations, inventory management, stock control, material handling, and FIFO/FEFO principles.
• Experience using ERP systems, preferably SAP S/4HANA, for warehouse and inventory transactions.
• Good understanding of Health, Safety & Environment (HSE/LK3), Integrated Management Systems (IMS), and operational compliance requirements.
• Strong leadership, communication, analytical, and problem-solving skills with the ability to lead teams and drive operational performance.

Required Skills

• Warehouse Operations Management
• Inventory Control, Stock Accuracy & Reconciliation
• SAP Warehouse & Inventory Management (SAP S/4HANA preferred)
• FIFO/FEFO Management & Batch Traceability
• Health, Safety, Environmental (HSE/LK3) & IMS Compliance
• Leadership, Team Development & Performance Management
• Continuous Improvement, Root Cause Analysis & CAPA