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What you will do [Key Responsibilities]
Strategic Leadership
- Develop and execute a national transport strategy aligned with organizational objectives
- Develop strategic fleet and infrastructure plans to support business growth and expansion initiatives
- Drive transport excellence and continuous improvement initiatives
- Manage capital expenditure for transport fleet and infrastructure
- Lead national standardization of transport operations across all business units
- Develop transport fleet maintenance programs
- Lead a Safety Culture pertaining to transport
- Collaborate with internal stakeholders to achieve organizational grow strategies
Operational Management
- Optimize route planning and fleet utilization
- Oversee national transport operations
- Establish and monitor transport KPIs to drive performance and efficiency
- Ensure awareness and compliance with all transport regulations
- Develop organizational safety and compliance programs pertaining to transport
Team Leadership
- Foster a culture of safety and operational excellence
- Coach high-performing transport teams across the Business Units
- Mentor driver safe driver performance and culture
- Develop and mentor direct report and Business Unit Transport Managers
Business Improvement and Growth
- Identify and facilitate fleet management and routing improvements to improve DIFOT
- Collaborate with Sales and to ensure capacity in line with new business opportunities pipeline
- Collaborate with National Director Plant and Operational Excellence to improve centroid positioning, improving access to market opportunities and reducing average mile per route
- Develop internal strategic partnerships and coordinate with key stakeholders (P&C, Sales, National support roles across the business) to deploy business learnings within the business unit, accelerate improvement and growth opportunities
- Develop national business plans to drive and facilitate new business roll out initiatives to enable growth opportunities
- Integrate and optimize new business roll out within existing routes
What are you responsible for [Role Mandate]
Strategic Objectives
- Develop and deploy fleet strategies to ensure transport capacity in line with projected opportunity pipeline
- Support business growth and expansion initiatives
- Drive strategic planning in line with business development objectives
- Align transport fleet capacity and routing strategies enable service requirements
- Continuously optimize fleet and routing to minimize cost and improve service performance
- Drive safety performance improvement strategies
- Develop and improve transport efficiency metrics
- Implement standardized transport operations processes in line with national objectives
- Implement fleet management and maintenance strategies
- Implement new, and manage and improve existing transport related optimization and management systems
- Develop transport policies, procedures, and best practices
Team Leadership
- Provide direction and coordinate Transport Supervisors, Dispatches and Drivers
- Coordinate staff onboarding, training and development programs
- Lead performance evaluations and team development initiatives
- Foster a culture of safety and transport excellence
- Build strong relationships with key stakeholders
- Coordinate with National Functional Teams (National Plant Operations, Sales, and P&C)
Performance Management
- Monitor and manage the 4 pillars of operation management Safety, Compliance, Service, and Efficiency
- Develop key transport performance indicators (KPIs)
- Analyze and improve transport metrics (fleet and route)
- Analyze and improve customer service metrics (DIFOT)
- Implement cost reduction and efficiency improvements
- Manage fleet resource allocation
- Manage fleet related vendor relationships and contracts
- Report on transport operations performance to leadership
Key Performance Indicators
- On-time in-full delivery metrics
- New business fleet capacity
- Route efficiency metrics
- Fleet utilization metrics
- Safety and compliance performance indicators
- Team engagement and retention rates
Candidate Profile
Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Mathematics, Operations Management, or related field preferred
- 10+ years of senior transport experience at management level
- Transport systems implementation experience
- Business growth experience
- Transport capital budgeting experience
- Strong understanding of transport safety regulations
- Proven leadership and team development capabilities
Core Competencies
- Strategic planning and execution
- Complex business analytics
- Systems, process and technology implementation
- Change management
- Exceptional multistakeholder management
- Team leadership, influence and inspiration
- Team mentoring and development
- Transport capital planning and budgeting
- Risk and compliance management…
