Senior Despatch Controller

1 month ago


Durban, South Africa RCL FOODS Careers Full time

**RCL Foods** is recruiting for a driven, highly energized **Senior Despatch Controller** within the baking business unit.

This role will be based in **Durban** and reporting to the General Manager.

**Duties & Responsibilities**:
**Despatch Sales**
- Manage and ensure adherence to standard operating procedures related to cash sales and damage sales

**Loading of Trucks**
- Manage and ensure adherence to standard operating procedures related to loading of trucks

**Returns**
- Manage and ensure adherence to standard operating procedures related to returns and damages

**Crate Control**
- Manage the full control crate function and ensure accurate daily reporting

**Cost Control**
- Assist to prepare annual budget prior to start of new financial year
- Monitor and control expenses against budget and report on deviations
- Ensure cost efficiency with regards to expenditure

**Transactional duties**
- Ensure accurate stock count after every shift
- Analyze and report on variances with regards to stock counts
- Ensure the production transfer of product is agreed and signed off with production
- Ensure Bread Recon balances daily
- Prepare and present monthly KPI report to senior management team

**People Management**
- Set daily objectives for staff, ensuring full productivity and value add to the business
- Manage staff performance weekly and give regular feedback, taking disciplinary action when necessary and giving recognition where it’s due.
- Conduct formal performance reviews twice yearly with despatch controller
- Hold monthly meetings with staff
- Leave planning, ensuring no leave is lost
- Ensure rosters in place for team
- Participate in recruitment of new employees

**General**
- Attendance at inter-departmental meetings and give input related to despatch
- Ensure the despatch area is kept clean at all times.

**Minimum Requirements**:
**Education and Qualification**:
Matric

Tertiary qualification in Logistics or Supply Chain Management

**Experience and Training**:
Minimum 5 years supervisory/management experience in distribution

FMCG experience

Experience working with JDE advantageous

Good numeracy



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