Assistant General Manager - Logistics - Chemicals/Polymers Industry

Job Mission: To be a custodian and drive trade business delivery and documentation portfolio.

Principal Responsibility:

Transport Opportunity:

- Create opportunity through service providers namely shipping line, Airlines, Handling agents & forwarders for procuring competitive freight both long term and short term and services.

- File long term or short-term contract with shipping lines based on volumes projections.

- Monitor vendor documentation and service performance.

- Engage with vendors to create opportunity and freight benefits for the company

Supplier Management:

- Supplier deviations of shipments and document delivery be highlighted to sourcing teams.

- Engage with suppliers on service exceptions and drive corrective steps to facilitate inhouse documentation and delivery.

- Drive corrective actions on deviations of delivery caused by suppliers

Documentation Management:

- Monitor team's performance of supplier documents, pre-shipment, post shipment and Final documents accuracy and consistency.

- Manage error free LC documents.

- Drive Teams understanding and meet up to the compliance and destination country requirements.

- Time bound delivery of documents prior.

Banking Performance Management:

- Monitor Hongkong and London bank retirement time and documentation performance.

- Drive corrective actions on deviations.

Delivery Management:

- Supervise the delivery process management including materials and documents as per agreed terms

- Monitor performance deviations and drive corrective steps.

Team Management:

- Drive team performance to achieve individual objective.

- Conduct appraisal and team review.

- Recruit and develop team members.

- Create New logistics teams as per business needs

- Stakeholder and End Customer Engagement

- Engage with countries to capture the delivery/documentation challenges.

- Drive improvement through an engagement module.

- Circulate Performance and Deviation report on every fortnightly and monthly basis.

- Any other engagement which is required to boost improvement in process not limited to system developments, template creation, training, etc.

- Knowledge and Experience: 10 to 15 years of SCM experience

Key Competencies:

- Collaboration

- Innovation

- Problem Solving and Analytical Ability

- Judgement and Decision Making

- Impact and Influence

- Accountability

- Networking

- Interpersonal Communication

Other Requirements:

- SAP Knowledge

- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal

- Ability to handle a team and design and streamline processes within the team

- Ability to analyze problems and provide clear recommendations

- Able to collaborate with key users in different business units, and have a strong desire to excel

- Good interpersonal and communication skills

- Must be able to work independently as well as a team player and can manage own workload