Candidate Profile

• As a Transport Back Office Manager, you would be responsible for the following: 

Daily Activities:

1. Resource Planning:

• Responsible for the coordination and preparation of the road transport budget.
• Budgeting for transportation projects,
• Fleet scope development (Fuel, Lubricants and Special chemicals and NBE),
• Transport Network Planning and Optimization using LAMASOFT and ORTEC,
• Develop Profit and Liability models for transporter development programmes
• Responsible for BUDCOM preparation for the transport division.
• Forecasting of transport costs over the contractual period regarding economic indicators

Reporting:

• Conduct data analytics on key Transportation metrics –
• spend, monthly kilometres travelled, volumes delivered, long-distance trips per day, capacity utilisation, fleet utilisation, and rand per kilometre, drops/trip or cents per litre or rand/ton.
• Create reports and Power BI dashboards tgain and share business insights.
• Forecasting – using statistical tools such as regression and time series-based forecasting model
• Ensuring that SAP posting is done intthe correct budget codes for road transport
• Use SAP as the source for all above-mentioned reports, except those sourced from the KPI system.
• Management of Finance audit findings tcompletion
• Ensuring that PCA has correct transport costs for cost allocation tother departments

Performance Monitoring and Improvement:

• Monitor tensure that all information is captured by contractors and consolidated intthe KPI system
• Consolidate HSE information from Ramses intthe transport KPI system
• Lean Methodologies (Lean Six- Sigma) – Continuous Improvement Tools
• Problem Solving

Transport Rates system:

• Maintain and support Primary allocation tool, ensuring accurate transport rates and management of reports and KPIs.

People Management:

• Teffectively manage employees through applying the company people management principles and develop, coach and mentor subordinates.
• Interactions with Finance, B2B (Marketing), Retail

HSEQ and Technical

• Teffectively manage and minimise the risk associated with transport operations by ensuring:
• compliance with all HSE Policies, rules, guidelines and legal requirements within the area of responsibility;
• promotion of a safe working environment and positively contributing tthe company’s HSE KPIs and risk reduction strategies
• that HSE competency requirements are enforced within the area of responsibility

Activities

As a Transport Back Office Manager, you would possess the following: 

• Relevant Master’s Degree or Equivalent advisable (Finance, Transport & Supply Chain, Engineering, hard Sciences)
• SAP Knowledge essential
• Proficient in Data Visualisation Tools – Power-BI and/or Tableau
• Lean Six-Sigma (Green Belt)
• Proficient in Excel
• Knowledge of transport and depot operations
• Knowledge of central routing and scheduling
• Knowledge of company policies and procedures
• HSEQ Knowledge