Senior Transport Operations Manager at Dangote

Job Description

• In the role of Senior Transport Manager you will be responsible for managing the transportation department or unit. Hires, trains, and supervises employees and manages scheduling of trucks.

Duties

• Oversee transportation department, including its assets and employees.
• Manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management.
• Ensure customer goods move from production through the supply chain to the end user.
• Establish quality transportation services.
• Develop partnerships with self collection customers.
• Plan and implement budgets.
• Supervise scheduling of truck movement.

Person Specifications
The eligible candidate should have:

• Ability to operate effectively in a high volume service driven transport operation
• Strong understanding of current transport system, concepts, strategy and best practice.
• Strong organizing and time management skills
• Good interpersonal relationship skills and communication, presentation and facilitation skills.
• In-depth understanding of the trends, challenges, opportunities, regulations and legislations relating to the cement manufacturing industry,
• In-depth knowledge and understanding of the macro and micro environmental trends and their impact on the organization.
• Excellent knowledge of the products and service offerings of Dangote Cement P.L.C.
• Very good negotiation and relationship management skills.
• Proficient with Microsoft Word, Excel and Outlook.

Educational qualification & Experience
The ideal candidate should posses as minimum requirement:

• Bachelor's degree in Transport and Logistics.
• Master’s degree with specialization in Transport and Logistics.
• Minimum of 20 years of related experience with at least 10 years specific experience in transport.