Logistics Assistant Manager

Job Description

Company Profile:Every Day, Around the World, People Reach for Unilever Products. Our Brands Are Trusted Everywhere And, By Listening to The People Who Buy Them, Weve Grown into One of The Worlds Most Successful Consumer Goods Companies. In Fact, 150 Million Times A Day, Someone Somewhere Chooses a Unilever Product.Look in Your Fridge, Or on The Bathroom Shelf, And You?re Bound to See One of Our Well-Known Brands. We Create, Market and Distribute the Products That People Choose to Feed Their Families and Keep Themselves and Their Homes Clean and Fresh.Our Corporate Strategy Aims to Double the Size of Our Business While Reducing Our Impact on The Environment By 2020. As A Result, In the Months and Years to Come, We Envisage Many Opportunities for Our Staff to Progress and Gain Vital Experience. It?s Never Been Such an Exciting Time to Join the Unilever Team.Job Scope:Managing KSA Factory Logistics operations. Monitoring all Warehousing, transportations, BUL factory internal logistics, distribution cost governance, and leading logistics excellence agenda.You will be also responsible for building, developing, and reviewing the department KPIs and evaluate their outcomes.Also you will be responsible for developing the team capabilities and skills and discuss their future fit plans.In addition, accountable to deliver logistics safety, quality, cost savings, business waste reduction, customer service, continuous improvement projects and sustainability improvements.Roles & Responsibilities

• Drive logistics operational costs measured as %TO reduction regardless of volume, through efficiency, network optimizations, innovative ways of working across the transport and warehousing space.
• Drive service to customers (warehousing and Primary transport)
• Drive sustainability within logistics.
• Manage relationships with 3PLs in the country.
• Identify opportunities to improve key performance metrics, develop proposals to develop these opportunities, and implement where feasible.
• Distribution cost governance.

• Leading Internal logistics excellence agenda ( WCM ).
• Team Leadership & Mentoring ? to develop, coach, mentor, and leverage skills,
• Strategy & Improvements ? to lead and drive Global Logistics initiatives to ensure effective deployment in local markets.

Stakeholder Management And Key Interfaces

• Responsible for (inbound) logistics between suppliers, ports, warehouses and factories
• Engagement with material planners to define service requirements
• Engagement with factories to define service requirements
• Reports to MU Logistics Lead and global control tower lead Monitoring of cost and performance KPIs,

Internal

• Sourcing units, Planning functions, Sales team, O2C team, other ekaterra?s Logistics units outside your geography

External

• 3PL suppliers, material suppliers, freight forwarders, Sourcing Units, customs brokers

Key Competencies & Skills ? Standards of LeadershipRole requirements:

• Supply Chain and/or Logistics experience in FMCG or other relevant industry (Retailer or 3PL environment)
• Fluent in English
• Strong project management skills
• Strong financial and business acumen
• Strong communication skill
• Proficiency in MS Office applications

Standards of Leadership:Purpose & ServicePersonal MasteryAgilityBusiness AcumenTalent CatalystConsumer LovePassion for High PerformanceUnilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ?Whole Self? to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.

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