This progressive logistics/forwarding company based Heathrow requires an experienced manager for their logistics & fulfilment operations.
Tasks:
- Plan, manage and evaluate logistics operations liaising with internal stakeholders, suppliers, logistics providers, transportation companies and customers
- Create and implement best practice logistics principles, policies and processes across the organisation to improve operational and financial performance
- Deliver solutions to logistics problems while maintaining high levels of quality and service within budgetary requirements
- Monitor quality, quantity, delivery times, and transport costs
- Negotiate rates and contracts with transportation and logistics providers
- Recommend optimal transport modes, routes or frequency
- Select carriers/suppliers and monitor service against performance criteria
- Ensure carrier compliance with company policies or procedures for product transit or delivery
- Resolve problems concerning transportation, logistics systems, imports or exports or customer issues
- Review impact of logistics changes, such as routing, shipping modes, product volumes or carriers and report results to others
- Assess and make recommendations for logistics and warehouse processes in potential new facilities or plants and advise of cost implications and efficiency
- Support continuous improvement initiatives and identify inefficiencies and cost optimisation opportunities
- Ensure the integrity of inventory accuracy and manage stock movements with the help of direct reports
- Identify and resolve any inventory discrepancies and ensure inventory and system records are in agreement
- Keep track of slow moving and obsolete stock.
- Identify savings by removing waste or unnecessary steps in the logistics process
- Interpret trends and analyse and review data. Provide meaningful logistics data to others in the organisation to aid customer service and cost improvements
- Ensure IT systems in place are effective, maintained and accurate
- Ensure metrics, reports, and process documentation is available.
Health and Safety:
- Make sure all measures are taken to insure health and safety is key in the warehouse.
- Make sure all employees working in warehouse follow procedures and have the correct means to work in the environment safely and efficiently (courses/training, equipment)
- Make sure all logs (daily, weekly, monthly) are kept and done.
- Communicate on a regular basis with the Health and Safety representative and send monthly reports on any issues which needed to be highlighted.
Skills and Attributes:
- Proven management skills with the ability to optimise team performance and development
- Highly skilled communicator with the ability to form and maintain good relationships internally and externally
- Strong interpersonal, negotiation and influencing skills
- Customer focused
- Proven analytical, problem solving and organisational skills
- Strong planning skills with the ability to handle multiple projects through to completion and to manage competing priorities
- Project management skills
- Commercial and financial acumen with a full understanding of the impact of failure in terms of business cost, production schedules and customer order fulfilment
- Excellent attention to detail skills
Qualifications and Experience Levels:
- Min 3 years of warehousing and fulfilment managerial experience.
- Strong understanding of inventory management systems and WMS.
- Prior experience of working in logistics/supply chain/transportation function within the automotive or manufacturing environment with a comprehensive knowledge of logistics processes and procedures
- Expert knowledge of technical regulations related to logistics such as import/export and customs regulations, including security requirements to include certification in dangerous goods handling and aviation security
- High degree of knowledge and understanding of a variety of manufacturing and automotive processes and components and of supply chain management
- Strong IT systems knowledge and skills including knowledge and understanding of specialist systems such as Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Bill of Material (BOM) and customer data systems
- Advanced Excel user
- Ability to analyse and manipulate technical and complex data and provide meaningful information
- Membership of an appropriate professional body such as the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport would be advantageous
- For Health and Safety Management IOSH training is a MUST
Salary £50000 to £55000 aae
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