POSITION : Regional Head Logistics - East

Description

• Manage the value chain from movement of raw materials, warehousing, and distribution to customers to optimize costs, improve efficiency and profitability, customer service and safety.
• existing procedures or opportunities for streamlining activities to meet product distribution needs.
• Direct the movement, storage, monitoring of inventory costs and keep key productivity ratios above competitors’.
• The position is based in Calabar/Mfamosing and requires frequent travel within the South East region.

 Responsibilities

• Drive the company’s safety standards within logistics and transportation activities
• Manage and develop local resources
• Achieve optimized contractors and fleet size
• Keep end to end pipeline costs to optimum defined level
• Manage Transporters safety and drivers unions
• Logistics planning and optimized cost distribution
• Road transport contractors’ management
• Customer service management
• Depots/warehousing and inventory management
• Logistics staff management and development
• Continuous logistics processes improvement & change management

Qualifications

• Masters in Supply chain, Engineering or BA
• At least 5 years’ experience in Supply Chain or logistics preferably at management level
• Organizing and planning skills
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Negotiation skills
• Good communication and influencing skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Working without supervision, in remote locations and able to deliver under pressure
• Experience of managing teams
• Knowledge of manufacturing industry
• Knowledge of supply chain core processes and logistics business
• Customer service
• Knowledge of basic finance fundamentals
• Good supervisory and people management skills