Transport Manager
Al Arabia Land Transport Compamy
Total years of experience :8 years, 9 Months
Planning routes and load scheduling for multi-drop deliveries.
Booking in deliveries and liaising with customers.
Allocating and recording resources and movements on the transport planning system.
Ensuring all partners in the supply chain are working effectively and efficiently to ensure smooth operations.
Communicating effectively with clients and responding to their requirements.
Booking sub-contractors and ensuring they deliver within agreed terms.
Transport management:
Directing all transportation activities.
Developing transportation relationships.
Monitoring transport costs.
Negotiating and bargaining transportation prices.
Dealing with the effects of congestion.
• Establish strong working relationships with carrier owners/operators.
• Contact local Cargill approved carriers in order to confirm availability and capacity for individual shipments.
• Provide all necessary shipment information to freight carrier and receive and record confirmation that carrier has accepted each shipment.
• Contact Logistics Manager when the approved carriers do not have capacity for a shipment.
• Provide updates on shipment planning status to supply chain as required or requested.
MONITORING OF SHIPMENTS
• Follow up with the execution of the shipments. Monitors the status of the loading and shipment and performs track and trace activities to confirm status of shipment throughout the shipment execution process.
• Provide timely communication with carrier owners and operators, Operations, and maintains daily contact with Agriculture, Operations, and Supply Chain teams and carriers on order/shipment information.
• Address service incidents and prioritizes activities and take fast decisions to cope with a lot of variations due to - change in pick up location, bad quality of a product, truck rejections by the customer, re-routing of a traveling truck.
Operate within the transport strategy and resolve day to day issues in resourceful and effective ways and provide recommendations to support improved or cost-beneficial transport movements.
• Provides necessary information in regards to the transportation of shipment
Sorting out the post
Answering the phones
Ordering office stationery supplies
Greeting clients
Typing
Filing
Managing diaries
Providing administrative support to ensure efficient operation of the office.
Support managers and employees through a variety of tasks related to organization and communication.
Responsible for confidential and time sensitive material.
Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices and procedures.
Ability to effectively communicate via phone and email ensuring that all Administrative Assistant duties are completed accurately and delivered with high quality and in a timely manner.
Rely on experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals and a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected. Typically reports to a manager or head of a unit/department.