About The Team
The Workforce Management Executive is a critical role responsible for ensuring optimal labor availability and performance across the entire warehouse network, specifically managing relationships and metrics for external manpower agencies. This role drives efficiency and cost-effectiveness by proactively monitoring agency performance, ensuring agreed-upon standards are met, and strategically re-allocating labor resources to maintain target fill rates.
Job Description
- Manpower Agency Performance Management
- Monitor and Evaluate: Continuously monitor the performance of existing manpower agencies against pre-defined, measurable metrics (e.g., fill rate, quality of hire, time-to-fill, attrition rate, compliance).
- Reporting: Generate regular performance reports and scorecards for all agencies, highlighting achievements, trends, and areas of concern.
- Corrective Action: Implement formal corrective action plans and performance improvement initiatives for under-performing agencies. Escalate issues and recommend termination of contracts for agencies failing to meet critical, sustained standards.
- Relationship Management: Act as the primary point of contact for external manpower agencies, conducting regular performance review meetings to ensure alignment and address operational challenges.
- Labor Planning and Fill Rate Optimization
- Fill Rate Oversight: Monitor fill rates across the warehouse network in real-time or near-real-time to identify immediate and emerging staffing gaps or surpluses.
- Labor Allocation: Strategically analyze staffing needs and proactively re-allocate manpower (contract and/or internal float pool) between different warehouse locations as required to meet fluctuating demand and maintain operational service levels.
- Collaboration: Work closely and collaboratively with relevant warehouse leads (e.g., Warehouse Managers, Site Supervisors) to understand local operational needs, communicate staffing plans, and coordinate the swift deployment and onboarding of re-allocated or new personnel.
- Forecasting: Assist in short-term labor demand forecasting based on operational data (e.g., volume projections, planned promotions, seasonal peaks) to inform agency requirements.
- Compliance and Process Improvement
- Compliance: Ensure all manpower agency operations and personnel adhere to company policies, safety regulations, and all relevant labor laws.
- Process Optimization: Identify and recommend improvements to the end-to-end workforce management and agency engagement process to enhance efficiency, quality, and cost control.
Requirements
- 15 years of experience in Workforce Management, Operations Management, or Labor Planning, preferably within a large warehouse or logistics network.
- Analytical Skills: Exceptional data analysis skills with proven ability to interpret performance metrics (KPIs) and make data-driven decisions on labor allocation and vendor performance.
- WFM Software Proficiency: Proficiency in Workforce Management (WFM) software/systems and advanced skills in MS Excel for reporting and analysis.
- Communication: Strong interpersonal and communication skills to effectively manage external vendor relationships and influence internal stakeholders (Warehouse Leads, Senior Management).
- Proficient in verbal and written English communication, with the ability to document layout plans and collaborate with international teams if needed.
