Purpose: This role requires cross-functional interation and involves implementing and maintaining the overall fleet, safety protocols, ensuring customer service levels are set and achieved and optimizing distribution processes, e.g. overtime, route optimization and communication to various BUs, with reporting to illustrate such. Measuring, tracking and reporting on progress against objectives. Delivering through scorecard, tracking and optimization.
Duties include:
Oversee the activities of distribution staff to ensure efficient workflow and adherence to company policies
Score Card distribution activities and communicate efficiencies to Depot Manager
Ensure timely and accurate delivery of products to customers by coordinating transportation and logistics:
- Ensure route optimization
- Ensure fleet is in excellent working condition
- Build relationship with vendors for fleet management
Enforce safety protocols and procedures to comply with regulations and protect employees:
- Check daily fleet inspection sheet and address issues reported
- Ensure team comply to regulations and resolve any issues that arise with Depot Manager
Provide training and development opportunities for new and existing employees to enhance productivity:
- Provide training and development where deemed necessary reporting from Expeditor to establish needs
- Ensure yearly workshops with team to refresh adherence and understanding of responsibilities, documentation as well as safety training usually year end
Assess employee performance, manage growth opportunity, and implement strategies for improvement:
- Understanding of issues reported and address any concerns, risks to ensure that team adherence to score card outputs
Work closely with other departments (e.g., sales, customer service) to optimize distribution processes:
- Compile daily, weekly as well as monthly reporting to be communicated to Bus, Call Centre as well as Debtors
Requirements: - Relevant Degree or studying towards
- Min 2 years experience
- Relevant Quality, Food Safety and Safety Systems knowledge preferred
- Knowledge of cold chain supply preferred
- Fluent in English
- Intermediate computer literacy
