Country Logistics Lead

roomDar es Salaam

business_centerFull Time

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bookmark Senior Manager

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businessFMCG, Retail & Wholesale

Logistics

Summary

To ensure alignment to overall business strategy from a logistics and planning perspective. To deliver against customer service, volume, market share and profitability targets in an ethical, safe, and sustainable manner

Responsibilities

Safety & Quality

  • Ensures a safe and healthy working environment for internal and external stakeholders.

  • Ensures that legislative requirements are met and fully implemented.

  • Maintains a robust system of SIO generation and close out.

  • Weekly safety reviews are conducted with the teams and monthly safety reviews with the Logistics Director to identify risk trends and mitigation plans

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    Ensures that logistics teams adhere to quality guidelines specified by the Zone so that customers receive stock as per ABInbev’s quality guideline 

KPI’s, Routines & Reports

  • Ensures that Daily, Weekly and Monthly Meeting routines are adhered to in line with mandatory DPO, VPO, LCP & internal guidelines

  • Ensures that processes are standardized via SOP's and work standards are monitored and improved

  • Track KPI's on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis in line with requirements

Cost Management

  • Drives a strict adherence to flexed budgets with the delivery, warehouse, inventory management & planning teams.

  • Ensures that accountability is aligned to package owners

  • Assumes overall accountability for Country Logistics spend on both VLC, FLC and SCOH

  • Develop annually together with Zone team the bottom up budgets for all packages (VLC, people, retpack, capex etc.)

  • Develop annually the 1YP together with Zone

  • Annual Champions initiatives and tracking of the same

People Management

  •  Ensure that the Logistics and Planning Teams are aligned in terms of goals and meeting routines to drive continuous improvement.

  • Ensures that Monthly One on Ones are conducted in line with the target review process.

  • Follow up on Engagement Survey results with clear actions to correct areas of concern.

  • Recruitment of talent and building of pipeline

  • Capability building of the logistics team

  • Perform 180 reviews and address poor performance where required by means of improvement plans and or disciplinary hearings

     

Education and Qualifications

  • Logistics/Supply Chain degree or another 3-year degree in related field
  • Minimum 5 years manufacturing, distribution, and planning management experience within FMCG company

Requirements

  • Deep knowledge of supply chain processes both from operational and planning perspective

  • Proven experience with ability to influence and interface with senior stakeholders across various functions

  • Proven leadership experience with an ability to convert market opportunities into cost saving initiatives

  • Customer focused mind set and approach

  • Demonstrate problem solving skills with an ability to manage complexity and ambiguity

  • Ability to work under pressure and multitask

  • Good verbal and communication skills; must communicate across all levels in the organization with personal gravitas and credibility

  • Good self-management principles

  • Ability to adapt to and implement change effectively.

  • Strive for continuous improvement

  • Strong analytic and numerical skill

Reporting To

  • Logistics Director 

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FMCG, Retail & Wholesale: 5 Years

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Logistics: 5 Years

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