Warehouse Administrator - Join A Market Leader - Part-Time

PPD Limited is a pet speciality wholesaler within the New Zealand veterinary market. We are a NZ owned and operated business with one distribution centre (DC) based in Lower Hutt and a second distribution centre (DC) based in north Hamilton. The company has built a loyal customer base due to its strong focus on partnerships and delivering high value adding solutions to its customers. 

We live and breathe our values; Strong Relationships, Inclusive, Balance Lifestyle, Own It and Sustainability and focus on empowering our team through exclusive employee benefits, such as three free doctors’ visits per year, monthly awards and recognitions, wellbeing services, vitamins during winter, team accounts and discounts on animal products and ongoing training and development opportunities.

Our Warehouse team is growing and we are on the hunt for someone who has strong attention to detail, enjoys working as part of a team, has good computer skills, plenty of initiative, great communication and interpersonal skills, with a solutions-based approach.

This role will be reporting directly to the Warehouse Manager and will play an important part in our distribution centre team.

The hours of work will be Part Time – Monday to Friday 8.00am – 2.30pm (30 hours per week).

The work involves:

• Completing stock purchase orders for our vendors from beginning to end
• Receipting in inwards stock and accurately checking against paperwork 
• Ensuring inventory locations within the warehouse are accurate
• Completing regular audits, cyclical counts, stocktakes and escalating any variances
• Processing stock adjustments/ damaged stock in warehouse management system and physically sorting stock to be disposed of
• Recording and communicating credit claims in relation to stock variances and damages with a sense of urgency
• Ensure all stock discrepancies are investigated thoroughly and in a timely manner
• Ensure inventory management processes are streamlined with an aim of sustainable solutions and continuous improvement
• Producing, analysing and presenting reports and following up on any actions
• Assisting customer services with order processing and systems back up
• Assisting the warehouse manager with administration regarding dispatching sales orders
• Communicating with the centralised finance department when required
• Assisting with IT hardware set up and support
• Managing the accuracy of our computerised warehousing system
• Assisting the distribution team when needed
• Producing ad hoc reports when requested.

To be successful you need to:

• Have previous experience managing inventory (at least 2 years) and working with a computerised warehouse system (desired but not essential)
• Have a good understanding of inventory operations and analysis
• Great problem-solving skills
• Be dependable and reliable
• Be process driven
• Be organised and able to work to deadlines
• Work well under pressure
• Have a great can co attitude.

Applicants must have verifiable work rights and eligibility to work in New Zealand.

Applications close: Monday 10th June 2024

Please direct confidential enquiries to Maddy Towgood on 021 712 063.  Applications, accompanied by a current Cover Letter and CV are to be sent through Seek. For more information, visit our website www.svs.co.nz.