Logistics Manager

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Our client is a Tier One Automotive Supplier boasting World famous household names as it's customers.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">They are seeking a driven, pragmatic Logistics Manager to join them at an exciting time in their development, having won millions of pounds worth of new business and secured current contracts that will carry the business through the next phase of their growth.</p>

<h5 class="fw-bold text-success mt-4 mb-3">Role and Responsibilities</h5>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Strategy and Development</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Contribute to the creation and implementation of best practice logistics vision, strategy, policies, processes and procedures to aid and improve operational performance</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">General and Task Management</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Plan, manage and evaluate logistics operations liaising with internal stakeholders, suppliers, logistics providers, and customers</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Create and implement best practice logistics principles, policies and processes across the organisation to improve operational and financial performance</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Deliver solutions to logistics problems while maintaining high levels of quality and service within budgetary</p>

<h5 class="fw-bold text-success mt-4 mb-3">requirements</h5>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Monitor quality, quantity, delivery times, and transport costs</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Negotiate rates and contracts with transportation and logistics providers</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Recommend optimal transport modes, routes or frequency</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Select carriers/suppliers and monitor service against performance criteria</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Ensure carrier compliance with company policies or procedures for product transit or delivery</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Resolve problems concerning transportation, logistics systems, imports or exports or customer issues</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Review impact of logistics changes, such as routing, shipping modes, product volumes or carriers and report results to others</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Assess and make recommendations for logistics processes in potential new facilities or plants and advise of cost implications and efficiency</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Support continuous improvement initiatives and identify inefficiencies and cost optimisation opportunities</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Ensure the integrity of inventory accuracy and manage stock movements with the help of direct reports</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Identify and resolve any inventory discrepancies and ensure inventory and system records are in agreement</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Keep track of slow moving and obsolete stock</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Identify savings by removing waste or unnecessary steps in the logistics process</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Interpret trends and analyse and review data. Provide meaningful logistics data to others in the organisation to aid customer service and cost improvements</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Ensure IT systems in place are effective, maintained and accurate</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Ensure metrics, reports, and process documentation is available</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Comply with the storage location and material condition procedures</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">People Management</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Manage, coach and develop a high performing team that meets agreed objectives and delivers best practice results, added value and continuous improvements</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Set departmental objectives/KPIs and review and assess ongoing</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·performance of direct reports</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Report on achievement of targets and identify any actions required</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Ensure that all functions under supervision operate in accordance with health, safety and environmental policies and procedures to ensure the safety and wellbeing of staff and visitors</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Skills & Qualifications</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Proven management skills with the ability to optimise team performance and development</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Highly skilled communicator with the ability to form and maintain good relationships internally and externally</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Strong interpersonal, negotiation and influencing skills</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Customer focussed</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Proven analytical, problem solving and organisational skills</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Strong planning skills with the ability to handle multiple projects through to completion and to manage competing priorities</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Project management skills</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Commercial and financial acumen with a full understanding of the impact of failure in terms of business cost, production schedules and customer order fulfilment</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Excellent attention to detail skills</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">Qualifications and Experience Levels:</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Relevant business/commercial or manufacturing/engineering degree is preferred, HND, BTec Professional Level 5 Award or equivalent NVQ Level 5 qualifications.</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·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</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Expert knowledge of technical regulations related to logistics such as import/export and customs regulations, including security</p>

<h5 class="fw-bold text-success mt-4 mb-3">requirements to include certification in dangerous goods handling and aviation security</h5>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·High degree of knowledge and understanding of a variety of manufacturing and automotive processes and components and of supply chain management</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·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</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Advanced Excel user</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Ability to analyse and manipulate technical and complex data and provide meaningful information</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Membership of an appropriate professional body such as the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport would be advantageous</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">·Knowledge of lean techniques may be advantageous</p>

<p class="text-muted mb-3">SwiftTemps are operating as an Employment Agency with respect to this role</p>