Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Our client is a leading corrugated packaging supplier in the Middle East serving a wide variety of multi-national and local businesses. They have 3 state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in the Kingdom catering to businesses in the FMCG, agriculture and packaging sectors among others.
They are looking for a Supply Chain Manager who will lead the logistics activities while maintaining strong relationship with key customers, suppliers, society and internal functions within the company. The successful candidate shall act as the link between sales and production in terms of coordination and delivery of the products to the sales and production team.

Duties and Responsibilities
• Member of the supply chain leadership team responsible for shaping up and communicating the department’s Organization /Goals /Strategies /Measures (OGSM)
• Ensure the implementation of logistics fundamentals i.e., warehousing, distribution, operations, transportation and replenishment
• Lead the logistics team into achieving assigned targets on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
• Effectively work with multi-functional resources (sales, customer service, production, HR, administration and accounting to best achieve the department’s targets.
• Lead the recruitment, training and evaluation (PDR) of his team in the aim of developing and retaining the best talents.
• Own the organizational structure for logistics to the best help talent develop while growing the business
• Conduct site visits to all warehouses/plants while seeking opportunities for improvement.
• Annual negotiation and contracts with 3 PL and Transporters for operations
• Conduct monthly, weekly and daily follows up with haulers’ performance vs. their targets and work on improvement
• Develop replenishment plans based on the customer orders with the aim of fully utilizing the available shipping capacity
• Define and update the shipment routes to the best utilization of the shipping capacity at the lowest cost possible.
• Control and navigate the operational cost as per the allocated budget.
• Ensure the strict respect of safe and on time delivery en route.
• Owner and parent of pallets’ life cycle and preserve those while issuing regular report.
• Owner and parent of the stock count of finished / raw materials / other than direct materials and create stock account report on a daily, weekly and monthly basis.
• Receive return from customers and suppliers their conformity and execution as per company policy.
• Own the customer service level measurement
• Represent the logistic department in the daily operational meeting while aligning with company objectives

Requirements

Qualifications and Experience Required

• EDUCATION: BE / MBA / BS/ Business Administration, Accounting, Management or equivalent degree.
• EXPERIENCE: Minimum experience of 10 years in logistics in FMCG /manufacturing environment with complex and large volume operations; of which 5 years in management positions.
• CERTIFICATIONS: APICS/ERP-WMS/Materials and Inventory Management

About the Company

Talent Dimensions Consulting is a privately owned company specializing in human resources advisory services. We offer total talent solutions packages focusing on organizational development, HR business partner and outsourcing, talent management and acquisition, HR communications and automation frameworks, training, conferences and events management.

We came to existence as a result of a brainstorm of highly creative and innovative individuals who know how to seize the opportunity when they see one. Our philosophy is to constantly re-educate and re-invent ourselves. We believe that in order to compete effectively and ultimately succeed – we must develop our minds, hone our skills and invest in developing our competencies. This is the culture that we want to share our clients.

We understand that the global markets and business scenarios change by the minute, by the second. Business leaders and their strategies need to cope and get quick results fast. Getting the right balance of meeting the demands with current capabilities becomes a greater need now more than ever. That is why at Talent Dimensions Consulting, we help our clients achieve the balance. We partner with our clients in their quest for solutions to their business challenges.

Our consultants have a wide-range of industry expertise, having over 25 years combined professional experience in the business.

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