About Your Workplace
At Miele we live by our promise “Immer Besser” – Forever Better. As part of our Logistics Cluster (VG), our warehouse operations play a critical role in ensuring premium products reach our customers efficiently, accurately, and safely.
As Warehouse Team Leader, you will take ownership of the day-to-day warehouse and inventory operations, leading a high-performing team while driving process excellence, safety, and continuous improvement across the supply chain.
Warehouse Operations Leadership: Lead and coordinate all warehouse activities including receiving, dispatch, inventory management, stock rotation, scrapping and OHSE compliance.
Inventory Accuracy & Control: Monitor stock levels, manage pick locations/bins, investigate stock discrepancies (RCA), and deliver high cycle count and stocktake accuracy.
Returns & Reporting: Oversee the returns process, ensuring accurate processing, reporting and timely resolution.
Performance & KPI Management: Monitor receiving/dispatch times, order completeness, inventory discrepancies and ensure KPIs and budget targets are achieved.
Stakeholder Coordination: Liaise with internal departments (Sales, Service, Projects, Accounts), 3PL partners and service providers to ensure seamless goods movement.
Stocktaking Leadership: Coordinate and actively participate in stocktakes, driving strong engagement and accountability within the team.
Safe & Efficient Workplace: Maintain a clean, safe and orderly warehouse environment, acting autonomously and modelling best practice behaviours.
Strong process and end-to-end thinking with a structured and methodical approach
Proven ability to lead daily warehouse operations with minimal supervision
High organisational skills with strong attention to detail
Experience managing inventory accuracy and investigating discrepancies
Strong communication skills across all organisational levels
Good IT proficiency (e.g. SAP, WMS, ASW or similar systems)
Relevant warehousing licences (forklift, manual handling, dangerous goods as applicable)
Certificate in Warehousing or similar qualification
1–2 years’ experience in supply chain or warehouse operations
SAP system experience
Experience working with 3PL providers
Accurate and efficient flow of goods in and out of the warehouse
Low inventory discrepancy and stock variation rates
High cycle count and stocktaking accuracy
Strong order completeness and on-time dispatch performance
High team engagement and a positive safety culture
Since being founded in 1899 Miele has followed its 'Immer Besser' brand promise.
As the world’s leading manufacturer of premium domestic appliances, we create delightful experiences – not only with regard to the quality of our products, but also in terms of performance, convenience, design and sustainability. For our customers, this means the peace of mind of knowing that choosing Miele is a good decision – and probably the decision of a lifetime.
Our product portfolio includes kitchen appliances such as ovens, steam ovens, refrigerators, coffee machines and dishwashers as well as vacuum cleaners, washing machines and dryers. Dishwashers, washer-extractors and tumble dryers for commercial use as well as washer-disinfectors and sterilisers for use in medical applications augment this line-up.
Miele is a family-run company in the fourth generation with eight production plants in Germany as well as one plant each in Austria, the Czech Republic, China and Romania. The company is represented with its own sales subsidiaries and via importers in almost 100 countries. In the 2020 fiscal year, the Miele Group achieved sales of 4.5 bn, 6.5% more than in 2019. Miele employs around 20,944 people worldwide.
