Your opportunity to join our team at Lytton!

Based at our Lytton distribution centre, you will lead a small team with overall responsibility for the coordination of Transport and Inventory Management processes, ensuring cost-effective freight execution, accurate stock control, and compliant Chep and Export documentation practices.

Key responsibilities:

Transport and Export Coordination:

• Oversee the scheduling, allocation and coordination of freight movements across the state
• Liaise with suppliers, carriers, and internal teams to manage bookings and resolve issues
• Identify routing and cost-saving opportunities through regular freight reviews
• Monitor vendor performance, KPIs, rate cards, fuel costs, and timeslot adherence
• Support contingency plans, including alternative transport and supplier engagement
• Ensure compliance with CoR, safety, and export/import regulations
• Manage POs for compliance and payment, resolving invoice issues, tracking spend and producing variance analysis
• Assist with audits, corrective actions, and transport improvement initiatives
• Execute export documentation and ensure customs/export law and federal transport regulation compliance

Inventory and Chep Controlling:

• Oversee inventory control processes, cycle counts and reconciliation to ensure accuracy
• Oversee investigation of inventory variances (QA holds, rejects, in-transit, aged stock) and implement corrective actions
• Manage manual adjustments, write-offs, and ledger reconciliations
• Generate and present inventory reports, trend analyses, and KPI dashboards
• Manage Chep usage, reconciliation, transactional accuracy and timely credit recovery
• Investigate discrepancies, liaise with carriers and third parties, and maintain accurate asset records

Team Management:

• Lead and mentor direct reports fostering collaboration, KPI achievement, and development
• Drive continuous improvement by analysing inventory and transport data to uncover efficiencies and cost-saving opportunities
• Develop and standardise SOPs for inventory, Chep and export/transport processes
• Generate and present inventory reports, trend analyses, and KPI dashboards.
• Serve as primary liaison for internal (supply chain, planning, production, sales, finance, QA/WHS) and external (customers, suppliers, freight forwarders, customs) stakeholders
• Ensure compliance with internal controls, export regulations, and safety standards

 Key requirements:

• Strong clerical skills with previous experience working in warehousing, logistics and/or transportation
• Superior leadership skills, able to build rapport quickly and effectively to create a highly collaborative working environment
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate cross functionally to build strong relationships and influence key stakeholders
• Ability to work under pressure to meet deadlines
• Ability to adapt in a dynamic and fast paced business environment

We’re looking for people who are curious, caring, courageous and committed to join us; people who want to contribute their best work every single day and continue delivering deliciously good food that’s…Always Good!