About This Role
This role involves developing, overseeing, and maximizing the efficiency of the transportation network to ensure end-to-end supply chains. The manager will focus on logistics planning, carrier management, process improvement, and cost tracking.
Responsibilities
- Analyze and develop logistics plans that affect production, distribution, and inventory specific to the area of responsibility
- Oversee carrier selection and renewals
- Participate in contract negotiations and interface with selected carriers necessary to maintain expected levels of service
- Improve logistics processes through process improvement, prioritization, and project planning
- Develop and maintain cost estimates, forecasts, and cost models
- Track costs and savings for all transportation modes
Requirements
- 13-14 years of experience
- Qualification: B.E./B.Tech in any stream
- Accuracy and Attention to Detail: Understanding the necessity and value of accuracy; ability to complete tasks with high levels of precision
- Decision Making and Critical Thinking: Knowledge of the decision-making process and associated tools and techniques; ability to accurately analyze situations and reach productive decisions based on informed judgment
- Effective Communications: Understanding of effective communication concepts, tools and techniques; ability to effectively transmit, receive, and accurately interpret ideas, information, and needs through the application of appropriate communication behaviors
- Performance Management: Knowledge of successful performance management techniques; ability to apply organizations performance management system, practices, and tools to developing and improving individual, team, and organizational performance
- Planning and Organizing: Knowledge of the process of planning and arranging tasks and resources; ability to plan and organize both time and resources to get things completed while structuring and maintaining work in a systematic and highly methodical way
- Problem Solving: Knowledge of approaches, tools, techniques for recognizing, anticipating, and resolving organizational, operational or process problems; ability to apply knowledge of problem solving appropriately to diverse situations
- Supplier Management - MFG: Knowledge of processes and methods to effectively manage business relationships and transactions with suppliers of raw materials or product components; ability to apply related knowledge, experience and skills into real practice
- Transportation - MFG: Knowledge of transportation; ability to transport materials and goods to and from suppliers, distribution centers, manufacturing facilities and customers
