- Ensure adherence to Health & Safety and Quality Standards, including management of fork lift truck and van driving standards.
- Management of site finished goods warehouse, utilising in house and customer IT systems.
- Ensure service delivery and cost efficiency work hand in hand to deliver optimal levels of service.
- Resource planning to ensure high levels of flexibility and product security.
- Establish relevant KPI’s ensuring that your team meet the required targets for performance and accuracy.
- Logistics carrier planning ensuring selection of carriers are available to support changing business needs.
- Development of effective storage solutions, stock integrity and governance processes to ensure compliance.
- Processing defective material returns within defined timescales and to strict supplier guidelines.
- Establish relevant KPI’s ensuring that your team meet the required targets for performance and accuracy and customer demands.
- Develop and promote the ability to complete 3rd and 4th party logistics loops.
- Effectively present to and develop for customers the logistic services and benefits on offer.
- Negotiate continuous improvements in logistic costs and service.
- Facilitate development of system interfaces between supplier's systems and in-house systems.
- Development of packaging solutions.
- Effective claims management for transit losses/damages
- Verify and approve all freight related invoices.
- Ensure all inbound/outbound deliveries are complaint with latest tariffs.
- Perform Customs Compliance and clearance management ensuring all shipments adhere to relevant governing body H&S standards, (lithium batteries etc)
- Identify, manage, and implement any necessary customer accreditations.
- Management of site finished goods warehouse & outbound logistics.
- Through utilisation of logistics team and be responsible for planning & selection of carriers.
- Strong commercial appreciation preferred.
- Ability to work well under pressure and within strict deadlines
- Highly structured working approach, with proven ability in ensuring all key metrics are managed and delivered within an agreed framework.
- Understanding of customs and excise
- Demonstrable experience working in a reverse logistics environment is beneficial.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement skills and ability to influence both internal and external stakeholders.
- Ability to effectively communicate at all levels. Internal and external.
- Proven ability to build relationships with and develop new logistic partners'
- Strong presentation skills.
- Occasional travel to other locations at short notice is essential.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Proven track record of improving KPI, operational and financial.
- Self-motivated
- Excellent team player
- Continuous improvement mindset.
- Strong influencing and negotiating skills
- Highly motivated and results driven
- Able to identify success and deliver relevant team objectives
- Confident and willing to contribute
- Flexible and able to provide support if required
- Drive and determination, sees tasks through to completion
- Positive, energetic approach to any task given
- Good communicator with outstanding organisation skills.
- Desire and ability to identify and develop internal talent.
- Ambition and desire to learn multi discipline functions and lead multi discipline teams.