Distribution Supervisor

6 days ago

Pietermaritzburg, South Africa RCL FOODS Careers Full time

**RCL Foods** is recruiting for a driven, highly energized, distribution and people orientated **Distribution Supervisor** within the baking business unit.

This role will be based in **Pietermaritzburg** and reporting to the Regional Operations & Procurement Manager.

**Duties & Responsibilities**:
**Debrief Process**

To manage the daily debrief processes at the bakery and undertake a full review of all of the following per route;
- Service level (on time and in full)
- Customer service level (customers visited vs customers plotted)
- Short-loads
- Short-dated stock
- Total returns (stock in van)
- Return write-off ‘s (coded and classified)
- Driver shorts
- Crate shorts
- POD’s
- Kilometres travelled
- Standard route kilometres
- Vehicle utilisation and action planning

**Crate Management**

To manage bread crates daily to minimise the replacement of crates and to ensure that the crate pool is sufficient to maintain order and service level fulfilment at the lowest possible cost.

**Driver cash management**

To supervise driver ‘s to perform their duty effectively;
- To work in accordance with the company rules and legislation relating to the handling of cash and maintaining a zero cash balance and a nil crate balance for each driver daily.
- To act in a consistent manner against drivers when the cash shorts are in excess of the allowable limits (nil) and to follow up and resolve other aspects of the cash balances that are not driver specific to maintain a clean balance with limited write-offs.
- To work in accordance with the Company rules relating to handling of the product.
- To manage driver behaviour and adherence to Company rules and legislation.

**Human Resource Management**
- To effectively maintain the appropriate human resource levels by the careful selection, retention and performance-based management of staff.
- To inspire team members and staff to work in accordance with the Standards of Leadership and Our Way by personal adoption of these leadership standards and behaviours with a deliberate and intense effort to improve the overall business performance by focusing on these standards and behaviours.
- To use the RCL Foods performance development processes to provide relevant key performance areas and indicators. To measure and hold reports accountable for the effective delivery of the various goals and to support reports with personal development.
- A healthy labour relations environment an work climate will be maintained by regular and open communication with the staff members that ordinarily constitute an interest group and with general staff and management.
- To ensure that disciplinary procedures are followed according to the disciplinary code of conduct.

**Food, Safety and Quality Management**

Support the Food Safety and Quality Management Systems at the bakery and depots. Rigorous auditing an action planning will be required.

**Safety, Health and the Environment and Risk Management**

Business continuity planning and risk management practices will be undertaken to manage the distribution risks.
Matters of safety, health and the environment will be an area of focus.

**Minimum Requirements**:
**Qualifications**
- Matric
- Diploma in Supply Chain Management

**Skills**
- Logical thinking
- Decision making
- Organisational awareness
- Influence
- Demonstrated and “hands on” ability to mobilise teams to implement improvement initiatives, standardise new practices and drive continuous improvement.
- Excellent verbal and written communication.
- Excellent report writing.

**Experience**
- 5 years distribution experience in an FMCG environment, at least 3 years of which in a supervisory role.
- Continuous improvement, quality and safety experience in a manufacturing/distribution environment.
- Experience in labour relations

**Attributes**
- Inquisitive
- Persuasive
- Uses initiative
- Assertive
- Tolerant of stress and pressure
- Creative
- Proactive
- Attention to detail
- Deadline driven
- People orientated
- Results driven
- Able to encourage, motivate people
- Significant drive, sound judgement and ability to influence and all levels.

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