Vice President – Transportation and Supply Chain Partnerships (Africa)

Job ID:

2401

Durban

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You’ll lead our Strategic Partnerships (SP) practice in Africa and the Middle East. Our practice assists our emerging market clients solve complex supply chain, trade, and policy challenges. Blending strategic thinking with hands-on practicality, our consultants and experts work to develop and implement mutually beneficial strategies that solve our clients' most critical problems. Our Transportation and Supply Chain service is part of our SP and helps leading companies in all regional industries develop and implement future-oriented maritime logistics strategies. We do this by thinking outside the box, leveraging our network, developing genuine relationships, and transforming their supply chains to be reliable, cost-competitive, and ready for ocean transport.

What You'll Do

You will provide business executives and government officials with a holistic, end-to-end view of transportation and supply chain traditional levers (e.g., inventory, S&OP, planning, and segmentation) and logistics levers (e.g., warehousing, order processing, ocean transportation management, and delivery), and return (returns processing, refurbishing, recycling, and disposal). This includes gathering and analyzing local, regional, and international dynamics, formulating and testing hypotheses, and developing recommendations for presentation to client management. From there, you will implement those recommendations with client team members and report to GMS management as needed. Typical projects may involve upgrading line and staff skills, changing the reporting relationship structure, developing improved processes and procedures, and instituting rigorous target-setting, and working with local embassies or consulates. You will work with the client to realize immediate savings by building and executing network strategies and leveraging networks to achieve higher levels of effectiveness and efficiency. In this position, you will advise both senior individuals at client organizations and existing client service teams on driving transformational change toward a resilient international supply chain.

Qualifications

Master’s degree in international trade and commerce, international development, international relations, global supply chain management, marine transportation, maritime logistics and security, or a similar advanced degree is preferred.

10+ years of Supply Chain Management and/or consulting experience

Professional experience in negotiation, business development, Automotive, Industrial/Consumer Goods, Retail or General Merchandising, Project Cargo, Bulk Commodities, and Terminal Operations.

Led or had a core role in projects in one of the following areas: design and implementation of logistics strategy, network design and optimization, transportation, warehouse design and optimization, supply chain planning and management processes, supply chain modeling and optimization, and customs clearance.

Hands-on experience collaborating with foreign diplomatic officials, economic development agencies, port authorities and terminal operations, warehousing, cold-chain, and optimizing all value chain stages.

Excellent communication and interpersonal skills and fostering a can-do, collaborative team environment.

Willingness to work and live overseas.

Local language proficiency is a plus.

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