Aldelia Group Job for a Transport Manager

Aldelia Group - An established Retail & Wholesales company that specializes in the importation and supply of high quality building materials and construction equipment in Nigeria, is recruiting to fill the below position: Job Title: Transport Manager (South/South) Location: Rivers Job Description We currently seek to fill this role for our client, a major multinational company. Job Description

• Responsible for optimizing workshop, warehouse and fleet wide inventory levels and the sharing of stock across all company offices and warehouses, developing relationships with principle suppliers of goods and services to minimize total cost of procurement.
• Ensuring that company vehicles/trucks are never delayed or faced with a health and safety risk through non-delivery of essential equipment.
• Managing & implementing actions plans against route deviation & stoppage, accidents and any complaint in product shortage at customer‘s site.
• Monitoring and management of partial delivery of goods and services, or non-conformances as well as fuel and truck turnaround times, FMS & GPS tracking.
• Identification of opportunities for improvement for the Company SMS.
• Harmonize relationships with suppliers.
• Planning moves, managing budgets, organizing schedules, ensuring that properties are safe and properly loaded and offloaded.
• Oversee the preparation of technical reports, statistics and other documents required for vehicle establishment review, regular and ad hoc reporting requirements related to surface transport operations

• A Degree from a reputable University. MBA/M.Sc is an added advantage.
• Project Management skills training.
• Capable to motivate and manage subordinates and colleagues.
• Perfect knowledge of English language both written and spoken.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in Transport Management( end to end ,not fleet).
• Experience in external transport company is an added advantage
• Must have experience working in the south/south region.
• Must have knowledge of warehouse management systems, FMS, ERP