Logistics Excellence Manager

2 weeks ago


Durban, South Africa Unilever Full time

REPORTS TO: AFRICA LOGISTICS & CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE DIRECTOR

TEAM SIZE: 4

LOCATION: DURBAN SOUTH AFRICA

TRAVEL: 10%

JOB PURPOSE
- Develops and implements strategies to improve Africa Cluster Logistics program and support Global Logistics Program.
- Achieves or exceeds Cluster KPI targets such as Savings, Cost, Efficiency, Sustainability, CAPEX
- Improves best practice sharing culture via Communities of Practice
- Drives consistency in World Class Logistics deployment and opportunity identification based global benchmarking and cost to serve analyses
- Responsible for overall Africa Logistics Programme Governance

KEY RESPONSIBILITES
- Leads Cluster Logistics Center of Excellence team
- Drives the investigation of latest developments in the global and cluster logistics market, understanding the market situation, future tendencies and enhancing external best practices and development of strategies and plans to embed outside in view into Unilever particularly
- Drives the Savings program for the cluster and ensures savings targets are met
- Leads the evaluation of new best practices and the implementation of approved best practices in line with WCL
- Drives Cluster Logistics Transformation and CI projects with Regional Leads and drives market assessment
- Provides input to Global WCL Lead to evaluate capabilities and availabilities to support the implementation of WCL initiatives in the cluster
- Acts as the Cluster SME for Delivery in WCL program
- Drive and maintain the Cluster Cost to Serve Model
- Conducts Logistics Community of Practice meetings to enable cross learning globally by
- sharing best practices
- Drives global logistics benchmarking cycles and interfaces with markets for data collection
- Reviews KPI performance of the selected market or WH site against the peers in the same
- archetype
- Conducts on site review together with local Market Assessment team
- Drives the Arica Logistcs CAPEX Programme ensuring forecasting is accurate and projects delivered OTIF
- Extablishes and maintains the 3 year Logistics Master Plan

KNOWLEDGE / SKILLS / EXPERIENCE
- Has degree or equivalent
- Ability to work across organizations and levels in logistics leadership (e.g. Cluster Logistics Heads, Global Logistics Transformation Region Leads, etc.)
- Has proven leadership experience of running cluster programs in Logistics
- Has at least 3 years of Logistics Operations experience
- Has strong interpersonal skills: can coach, motivate, and convince stakeholders from different levels and markets by using the right structure, style and level of detail
- Has understanding of performance drivers and how to unlock these
- Has commercial acumen
- Ability to create inspirational, realistic and achievable plans
- Ability to drive a community
- Ability to manage differences across cultures


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