Logistics Manager

Job description / Role

1) Recommend optimal transportation modes, routing, equipment, or frequency.

2) Establish or monitor specific supply chain-based performance measurement systems.

3) Create policies or procedures for logistics activities.

4) Plan or implement material flow management systems to meet production requirements.

5) Train shipping department personnel in roles or responsibilities regarding global logistics strategies.

6) Maintain metrics, reports, process documentation, customer service logs, or training or safety records.

7) Implement specific customer requirements, such as internal reporting or customized transportation metrics.

8) Resolve problems concerning transportation, logistics systems, imports or exports, or customer issues.

9) Participate in carrier management processes, such as selection, qualification, or performance evaluation.

10) Monitor product import or export processes to ensure compliance with regulatory or legal requirements.

11) Ensure carrier compliance with company policies or procedures for product transit or delivery.

12) Direct distribution center operation to ensure achievement of cost, productivity, accuracy, or timeliness objectives.

13) Negotiate transportation rates or services.

14) Design models for use in evaluating logistics programs or services.

15) Supervise the work of logistics specialists, planners, or schedulers.

Requirements

• Graduates with Min13+yrs of experience working as Logistics Manager, handled construction site logistics.

• Direct, manage and coordinate logistics, Storage, Distribution, transportation of all materials, plant and equipment.
• Lead and direct strategic planning (monthly, weekly and daily).
• Control site security.
• Manage the daily use of the 11km Access road.
• The logistics manager will be expected to liaise with the 4no Site teams and plan and control all the daily movements of delivery vehicles, including agreeing all offloading areas, removal of FOD from deliveries.
• Ensuring the easy flow of men and materials to the work face.
• The 11km road will be monitored and controlled by the logistics team .It is expected that this will be a very onerous operation as there are 4 No individual project sites all expecting material and plant deliveries .
• The logistics manager will co-ordinate with all the site teams to remove potential bottlenecks and over booking of materials .i.e. concrete deliveries required on the same day.
• Security of the site and the main access road will be under the control of the logistics manager.

About the Company

iQuest Consultants are the biggest IT, Telecom, Manufacturing and Engineering and BFSI recruiters in West India, started in 2000, working for clients like Deloitte, IBM, KPMG, E&Y, Goldman Sachs, RBS, Standard Chartered, Tech Mahindra, Cable & Wireless, Samsung, Nokia etc. We work aggressively at Middle, Senior and Top Management levels for the Manufacturing and Engineering Companies like L&T, Hindalco, Finolex, Thermax, M&M, John Deere, Mercedes Benz and many more. Our overseas division works actively for some of the very reputed names in the Gulf like Al Moosa, Al Aqili, BEC, Technip, Al Abbas, ETA, Al Basti, ArchGroup, etc.

Our different teams specialize in different industry verticals and technologies. The Executive Search team works only for VP, Directors and CXO levels across the globe. With 150 recruitment consultants in 9 offices in 6 different cities in India we have a pan India reach and can search out the best talent for our clients from anywhere in the country or abroad.