Safety & Quality

• Ensures a safe and healthy working environment for internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensures that legislative requirements are met and fully  implemented.
• Weekly safety reviews are conducted with the teams and monthly safety reviews with the Supply Chain Director to identify risk trends and mitigation plans
• Ensures that logistics teams adhere to quality guidelines specified by the Zone so that customers receive stock as per quality guidelines

Routines & Reports

• Ensures that Daily, Weekly and Monthly Meeting routines are adhered to in line with mandatory 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
• Ensures that appropriate problem-solving tools are applied for out of range KPI's in line with methodology.
• Publish reports on time as per  guidelines and internal processes

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 systems
• Develop annually together with Zone team the bottom up budgets for all
• 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

Procurement

• Developing procurement strategies that are inventive and cost-effective.
• Support the sourcing and engagement of reliable suppliers and vendors.
• Participate in supplier negotiations and vendors to secure advantageous terms.
• Review existing contracts with suppliers and vendors to ensure on-going feasibility.
• Build and maintain long-term relationships with vendors and suppliers.
• Approve purchase orders and organize and confirm delivery of goods and services.
• Perform risk assessments on potential contracts and agreements.