KSA Logistics Manager

Job Title: KSA Logistics Manager
Location: Jeddah - BUL Factory / UHJ
Company Profile:
Every Day, Around the World, People Reach for Unilever Products. Our Brands
Are Trusted Everywhere And, By Listening to The People Who Buy Them, We've
Grown into One of The World's Most Successful Consumer Goods Companies. In
Fact, ‎150 Million Times A Day, Someone Somewhere Chooses a Unilever Product.
Look in Your Fridge, Or on The Bathroom Shelf, And You're Bound to See One of
Our Well-Known Brands. We Create, Market and Distribute the Products That
People Choose to Feed Their Families and Keep Themselves and Their Homes Clean
and Fresh.
Our Corporate Strategy Aims to Double the Size of Our Business While Reducing
Our Impact on The Environment By ‎2020. As A Result, In the Months and Years to
Come, We Envisage Many Opportunities for Our Staff to Progress and Gain Vital
Experience. It's Never Been Such an Exciting Time to Join the Unilever Team.
Job Scope:
Managing full KSA logistics operations including primary and secondary
covering both warehousing, transportation, distribution cost governance, and
leading logistics excellence agenda.
You will be also responsible for building, developing, and reviewing the
department KPIs and evaluate their outcomes.
Also you will be responsible for developing the team capabilities and skills
and discuss their future fit plans.
In addition, accountable to deliver logistics safety, quality, cost savings,
business waste reduction, customer service, continuous improvement projects
and sustainability improvements.
Roles & Responsibilities
* Drive logistics operational costs measured as %TO reduction, through efficiency, network optimizations, innovative ways of working across the transport and warehousing space.
* Drive service to customers (warehousing and Primary transport)
* Drive sustainability within logistics.
* Manage relationships with 3PLs in the country.
* Identify opportunities to improve key performance metrics, develop proposals to develop these opportunities, and implement where feasible.
* Distribution cost governance.
* Leading Internal logistics excellence agenda
* Team Leadership & Mentoring - to develop, coach, mentor, and leverage skills,
* Strategy & Improvements - to lead and drive Global Logistics initiatives to ensure effective deployment in local markets
* Setting up controls and guardrails within operation
* Lead operation efficiency and improvement projects through Logistics operations.
Stakeholder Management And Key Interfaces

Internal
* Sourcing units, Planning functions, Sales team, O2C team, other ekaterra's Logistics units outside your geography, Finance, IOPs
External
* 3PL suppliers, material suppliers, freight forwarders, Sourcing Units, customs brokers and customers
Key Competencies & Skills - Standards of Leadership
Role requirements:
* Supply Chain and/or Logistics experience in FMCG or other relevant industry (Retailer or 3PL environment)
* Fluent in English
* Strong project management skills
* Strong financial and business acumen
* Strong communication skill
* Proficiency in MS Office applications
* Planning background
Standards of Leadership:
Purpose & Service
Personal Mastery
Agility
Business Acumen
Talent Catalyst
Consumer Love
Passion for High Performance
Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to
drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our
diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a
diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion
across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual
bringing their 'Whole Self' to work and this includes you! Thus if you require
any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time
of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment
journey.