Regional Manager

Job description / Role

About the Client:
An international logistics & freight forwarding company that provides complex logistics solutions to customers in various industries around the world.

Job Role:
• Promote the company and its services by coordinating with Sales, Management, Finance, IT and Media Relations teams
• Create regional sales plans and quotas in alignment with business objectives
• Evaluate metrics and instruct Sales Managers to achieve the targets
• Prepare monthly, quarterly and annual sales reports and submit findings and analysis to senior management
• Strategically plan and manage logistics, warehouse, transportation and customer services
• Recommend optimal transportation modes, routing, equipment, or frequency
• Establish or monitor specific supply chain-based performance measurement systems
• Comply with industry laws, regulations and ISO requirements and develop policies or procedures for logistics activities based on the same
• Train shipping department personnel in roles or responsibilities regarding global logistics strategies
• Address potential problems and suggest prompt solutions
• Prepare and review the annual budget for the area of responsibility
• Analyze regional market trends and discover new opportunities for growth and participate in decisions for business growth and development
• Suggest new and innovative sales techniques to increase customer satisfaction, meet cost, productivity, accuracy and timeliness targets
• Serve as the point Identify hiring needs, select and train new salespeople
• Direct, optimize and coordinate full work cycle and reinforce the business efficiency by being the point of contact to report and communicate all achievements, inefficiencies or requirement between operations, sales, accounting and warehouse department in region and with the management in the head office

Requirements

Requirements:
• 33 years old and above
• Bachelor’s Degree in Marketing, or any relevant field
• With at least 6 years of experience in the same role from logistics & freight forwarding industry
• Retail background is an advantage
• In-depth understanding of logistics and operations process
• Ability to cope with pressure and work to tight deadlines
• Must be excellent in attention detail and commercial awareness
• Ability to read and generate reports, ledgers and market analyses
• Outstanding written, verbal communication, negotiation, and motivational skills

About the Company

RTC-1 Employment Services is a licensed recruitment firm based in Dubai, UAE. Our team has been in the market since 2004 and we are supporting various industries with their staffing needs across the Middle East and Africa.