Assistant Manager Operations

• Bachelor s degree in business administration, logistics, supply chain, or relevant field.

Experiences :

• 6+ years
• In-depth knowledge of the consumer goods industry.
• Solid understanding of logistics and inventory management software.
• Outstanding analytical, problem solving and organizational abilities.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills.

Roles and Responsibilities

Strategic Roles & Responsibilities

• Geographical understanding of the various alternate routes and destinations on each route
• Gathering of market intelligence w. r. t. sectorial availability of fleet, prevailing market freights that may impact availability & cost.
• Ability to handle dynamic and contingency situations by taking logical decisions balancing between Organization/ Vendor and the Customer objective
• Having a system for monitoring cluster developments and ability to insulate the logistic operations from cluster dynamics and in situations respond with speed, post assessing and validating variables in cluster which are likely to impact operations.
• Anticipate emerging transport operations parameters to determine future resource requirements.
• Formulate vehicle fleet management strategy across different plans.
• Improve asset utilization of own and dedicated fleet.
• Improve cost efficiency for operating company own trucks by analyzing individual & aggregated data streams, identifying & driving best practices in the terminal level by engaging with the stakeholders

Operational Responsibilities

• Overall responsibility of truck yard Management System including truck registration, prioritization of movement of truck to plant, loading prioritization in the plant etc. as per customer requirement.
• Align resource management (manpower and asset) strategy with business strategy across different business activities.
• Develop the strategic positioning of transportation operation processes within warehousing or freight forwarding operations.
• Review cargo consolidation plans to identify savings in space, cost and efficiency.
• Review effectiveness of risk management plan and resources for transport execution.
• Review incident or crisis management plans to mitigate gaps.
• Analysis of GPS output for lead validation to optimize cost and also areas of improvement by analyzing truck turnaround cycles.
• To do the cost benefit analysis sector wise & push maximum dispatches by road, wherever road is more economical.
• Creating and updating vendor profiles operating in the cluster w. r. t own trucks / attached truck / fleet size, financial credentials etc.
• Review data & organizing the data in a standard format for easy analysis & quick decision making.
• Monitor asset utilization of fleets and improve the dedication level resulting a control on primary freight.
• Analyzing the terminal/trip level data & identifying the areas of cost improvement for company operated trucks & engaging with the relevant stakeholders for timely resolution of issues

Cost Management

• Market intelligence on freight trends of peer units, commodity freights and arrival patterns.
• Analysis of various inputs and recommendation to PLH for desired freight corrections and duration of freight hike to minimize impact of incremental freights based on market demand of fleet.

• Recommendation for swapping of modes/ use of multi modes to optimize logistic cost.
• Monitoring of fleet efficiencies as agreed in Cost plus calculations and discussion with vendors to control cost by improving fleet efficiencies and vendor profitability.
• Analysis of GPS output for lead validation to optimize cost and areas of improvement by analyzing truck turnaround cycles.
• To do the cost benefit analysis sector wise & push maximum dispatches by road, wherever road is more economical.
• Evaluate the options of inbound and outbound integration.

Achievement of desired Customer Service Levels

• Timely responses for mobilization of defined quantity and achieve capacity utilization of the plant.
• Providing the visibility to vendor w. r. t qty, delivery window schedule & prioritization and scheduling for loading and giving desired inputs to shift for maintaining the desired service level.

Developmental Activities

• Evaluation of infrastructure available for truck movement and allocating a loading time window sector wise depending upon transit time and other barriers.

Performance Indices

• Updating & analysis of performance of road logistics operations & improvement trends w. r. t freight, vendor lifting sector wise, type of fleet used, order pattern etc. & providing necessary inputs for further corrective steps.

People Management

• Work closely with different functions and collaborate as a team member
• Develop talent and capabilities of team members
• Motivate colleagues at organizational level to develop innovative solutions for driving change.
• Support peers and leadership team for growth

Key Interactions