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JOB PURPOSE
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WHAT WILL YOUR MAIN RESPONSIBILITIES BE
Transportation Management
- Coordinate and oversee all transportation activities, ensuring timely delivery of goods.
- Develop and implement efficient routing plans to optimize transportation costs.
- Ensure compliance with transportation regulations and safety standards.
Warehousing Operations
- Oversee warehousing activities including inventory management, order fulfillment, and storage optimization
- Implement best practices for warehousing processes to enhance efficiency and reduce costs.
- Collaborate with the warehouse team to maintain accurate inventory records and minimize discrepancies.
- Ensure compliance with safety regulations & quality standards within the warehouse environment
Import/Export Coordination
- Facilitate all import/export activities in compliance with international trade regulations.
- Liaise with freight forwarders, customs brokers, and regulatory agencies to resolve any issues related to shipments.
- Monitor shipment status and communicate updates to relevant stakeholders.
Registration Management
- Ensure proper registration of products as required by local regulations
- Maintain up-to-date knowledge of regulatory changes affecting logistics operations.
- Collaborate with legal teams to ensure compliance with all applicable laws regarding product registration.
Team Leadership
- Assist in managing a team of logistics professionals, providing guidance and support as needed.
- Foster a collaborative work environment that encourages continuous improvement and innovation.
Cost & Savings Projects: Identify areas for process improvement and cost optimization within logistics operations.
WHAT YOU NEED TO SUCCEED
Experiences & Qualifications
- Educational Background: A bachelor’s degree in Logistics /Supply Chain is preferred.
- Experience Requirement: 4 to 6 years of experience in logistics or customer service roles is essential.
Skills
- Analytical Skills: Strong analytical abilities to assess data and make informed decisions regarding logistics processes.
- Communication Skills: Excellent communication skills are necessary for effective interaction with stakeholders, including customers, shipping lines, freight forwarders, and internal teams.
- Negotiation Skills: Proficiency in negotiation techniques to secure favorable terms with suppliers and partners.
- Organizational Skills: Strong organizational capabilities to manage multiple tasks efficiently while maintaining attention to detail.
Leadership
- You are energized by delivering fantastic results. You are an example to others – both your results and your resilience. You are constantly on the lookout for better ways to do things, engaging and collaborating with others along the way.
- As an individual you are the one responsible for your own wellbeing and delivering high standards of work. You must also focus on the Consumer and what they need. You are humble and have your head up, looking around to interpret evidence and data smartly, spot issues and opportunities to make things better.
- Critical SOL (Standards of Leadership) Behaviors
- PASSION FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE: Takes personal responsibility and accountability for execution and results. Has an owner’s mindset, using data and insight to make decisions.
- PERSONAL MASTERY: Sets high standards for themselves. Actively builds own wellbeing and resilience.
- CONSUMER LOVE: Whatever their role, always looks for better ways to serve consumers. Invests time inside and outside to understand the needs of consumers.
- PURPOSE & SERVICE: Has humility, understanding that leadership is service to others, inside and outside Unilever.
- AGILITY: Explores the world around them, continually learning and developing their skills.
Unilever embraces diversity and encourages applicants from all walks of life! This means giving full and fair consideration to all applicants and continuing development of all employees regardless of age, disability, gender reassignment, race, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, marriage and civil partnership, and pregnancy and maternity.
Unilever is an organisation committed to equity, inclusion and diversity to drive our business results and create a better future, every day, for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business. At Unilever we are interested in every individual bringing their ‘Whole Self’ to work and this includes you! Thus if you require any support or access requirements, we encourage you to advise us at the time of your application so that we can support you through your recruitment journey.
