Transport Manager Job in Hazerswoude-Rijndijk 2394AJ, Zuid Holland Netherlands

Main Responsibilities:
The Transportation Manager has overall responsibility accountability of all outbound (and to a lesser degree inbound) transportation activities between sites and from sites to customers.

 

Tasks:

-       Establish a regional operational strategy for the development and management of the road freight network, both internal (between sites) and external (from sites to customers)

-       Create and manage the transport budget of € 50+ MM annualized

-       Develop Key Performance Measures to monitor success of road freight services, carrier performance and growth and efficiency of transport products.

-       Define communications processes that mandate dialogue between regional and/or country organisations and operational entities.

-       Define appropriate Management Info Systems, based on the IT system, to measure the effectiveness of Key Performance Indicators, carrier utilisation and service quality.

-       Establish policies for all of the above and put in place mechanisms to ensure that they are adhered to, while complying to SOX and other prescribed procedures

-       Initiate, manage execute optimization and cost reduction efforts to continuously reduce cost base

-       Ownership for freight cost reporting and provides improvement

-       Select and contract carriers to support our delivery reliability to our customers

-       Analyze and follow up on the execution and service-levels provided by the external carrier’s hubs that we have contracts with

-       Assist on upgrade of service levels and quality standards through implementation of continuous service improvement and sustainable efficiency increases and projects

-       Development and communication of standard performance metrics with all shipping locations;

-       Support implementation of new transport strategies in alignment with site, business and customer service requirements

Key result area’s:

-       Service Service consistency

-       Transport budget Transport Cost per unit

-       Safety

 

 

Experience:

-          Academic background or work experience at that level in related.

-          Proven track record of at least 8–10 years in the industry with 2-3 years at policy setting level

-          Strong entrepreneurial manager

-          Demonstrated continuous professional development by experience and education

-          Strategic insight and analytical strength

-          Excellent oral and written communications skills in English; other additional languages are an added value.

-          Proven assertiveness and impact in business challenges, tempered with empathy for persons and situations.

-          Experience in managing at a distance (geographically) and multi level experience.

-          Results driven, able to motivate diverse teams to achieve quality results.

-          Experience / affinity with Oracle / SAP order management implementations

-          Experience in managing transport outsourcing projects

-          5 years experience in PL responsibility

-          Personality based on a healthy sense of humour, flexibility and at the same time firmness; strong in character.

-          Willingness to spend up to 70% of time travelling

 

 

Avery offers:

-          An all-round and independent position within a multinational, modern organization that produces technically advanced and high-quality products

-          A position carrying heavy responsibility but with a great deal of freedom, where results show immediately

-          International travel and world-wide activities

-          Good primary and secondary terms of employment in keeping with the weight of the position

 

 
Acquisition to this vacancy by job agencies and headhunters is not appreciated.