National Logistics Manager Pg

**Company presentation**
A world leader in gases, technologies and services for Industry and Health, Air Liquide is present in **75 countries** with approximately 66,400 employees and serves more than 3.8 million customers and patients. Oxygen, nitrogen and hydrogen are essential small molecules for life, matter and energy. They embody Air Liquide’s scientific territory and have been at the core of the company’s activities since its creation in 1902.

Air Liquide’s ambition is to be a leader in its industry, deliver long term performance and contribute to sustainability - with a strong commitment to climate change and energy transition at the heart of its strategy.

**Entity and activity description**
Focus on optimization of the process in order to meet customer requirements regarding quality and reliability of supply, while respecting safety, health, environment issues, for the best economic performance.

The incumbent will be responsible for receiving orders, planning, loading, and delivery of for both Primary and Secondary customers.

He also ensures regulatory compliance in terms of working conditions and process.

**Responsibilities**
- Run and control the administrative, accounting and personnel aspects of the Cylinder Supply Chain.
- Control costs within monthly budgets. Ensure that daily planning is managed in order to optimize product availability and customer satisfaction.
- Ensure that all customer orders are captured and customers are not consecutively short supplied.
- Manage the Cylinder Handling Crew to ensure efficient movement of cylinders nationally, and efficient dispatching of delivery vehicles.
- Ensure promotion of efficient handling of cylinders and safety. Maintain Cylinder Logistics routing to ensure route optimisation on daily planning.
- Manage the Transport Sub-Contractor daily operations with regards to: Daily trip recons (KM and hours), Non-deliveries, Vehicle maintenance, Cost validation, Spot vehicle hire (ZERO BUDGET)
- Implement necessary changes in order to improve efficiency.
- Maintain and implement AL safety standards and operational procedures and provide training where required.
- Manage IMS requirements applicable to the department.
- Reporting to the Industrial Director on all relevant matters.
- Ensure the qualification of operators

**Requirements** Education**
- Education: BSc Degree/ Logistics qualifications or relevant qualification

**Experience**
- Logistics management background 5 - 8 years experience

**Knowledge and Know-how specific to the job**
- Ability to coordinate many concerns and people (planning & organising)
- Highly motivated by technical and industrial environments
- Open to address multiple concerns in a limited timeframe (organized and effective time management)
- Decision making under pressure
- Adapt his/her communication to interlocutors

**OTHER COMPETENCIES**
- **Initiating Action -** Taking prompt action to accomplish work goals; taking action to achieve results beyond what is required; being proactive
- **Managing personal efficiency**:

- manage competing priorities in a challenging environment, minimizing non-value-added complexity or paradox.
- **Promoting and Achieving Safety** - responsibility to ensure that Safety and Security are seen as imperatives for the Group
- **Performance and Responsibility** - action to manage all changes or to mitigate the uncertainties occurring as a result of change to achieve the Group's objectives.
- **Decision Making -** analyze and summarize information including value-added suggestions from others to develop optimal solutions.
- **Customer Orientation -** recognize and analyze the customers’ needs, expectations and priorities and propose valuable, reliable, and competitive solutions
- **Adaptable** - Maintaining effectiveness when experiencing major changes in work responsibilities or environment (e.g., people, processes, structure, or culture); adjusting effectively to change by exploring the benefits, trying new approaches, and collaborating with others to make the change successful.

**Additional information**
Air Liquide embraces diversity and is an equal opportunity, affirmative action employer committed to the achievement and maintenance of equal representation (gender, race and people living with disability) in its workforce profile. Skills development remains our key driver in up skilling the workforce. Appointments will be made based on performance and in line with the company’s employment equity plan and skills development objectives.

Job Reference: AE00189