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National Air Logistics Operations Manager

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Join our Air Logistics team, where your operational expertise and skills will play a key role in delivering exceptional customer service and driving operational excellence.

How you create impact

You will be responsible for leading our operations strategy for the assigned territory, monitoring + driving continuous improvement in operational processes + systems. You will ensure that teams + stakeholders achieve company goals by optimizing operational processes + production costs with a variety of internal stakeholders while focusing on the following key objectives:

  • To set up + monitor key metrics for operational excellence including systems + processes.
  • To ensure company operations guidelines are up to date + followed.
  • To track training requirements + completion in processes + systems, oversee implementation of customer standard operating procedures (SOP) + support capability creation.
  • To ensure operations are managed within regulatory requirements, industry standards, management guidance + to liaise with Quality, Safety, Health + Environment (QSHE) to ensure audit readiness at all times.
  • To actively drive key performance indicators (KPI), continuous improvement + operational excellence in all teams, to determine corrective or preventive actions that help avoid deviations in the operational KPIs, customer facing KPI’s + data quality including e-Touch digitalization initiatives.
  • To ensure the optimal usage of the system + tools.
  • To regularly analyze or manage respective reports including profit+ loss (P&L), ensuring target compliance focusing mainly on the cost of production.
  • To update key info exchange with network, which may directly/indirectly impact operations + potentially need process changes.

What we would like you to bring

  • Minimum 10–15 years of experience in Air Freight Operations, preferably in Air Export Operations.
  • Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in air operations.
  • Proven experience in managing and overseeing export operations within a logistics or freight forwarding environment.
  • Strong strategic thinking skills with the ability to present operational strategies, plans, and solutions effectively to stakeholders.
  • Excellent verbal and written English communication skills; able to communicate fluently with internal and external stakeholders.
  • Exposure to and understanding of warehouse operations and its integration with air freight activities.

What's in it for you

  • Miscellaneous benefits such as dental, hospitalization and others
  • Annual Wage Supplement (AWS)
  • Training and development

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