Road Transport Manager

• Manage activities related to booking, planning, dispatching, routing, and tracking of trucks in Tanzania and in Uganda.
  
• Collaborates with staff members to formulate and implement transportation-related procedures as well as company revenue goals and project services objectives.
  
• Organize and manage subordinate staff members to ensure work is completed and consistent with Project’s standards.
  
• Ensure smooth interactions between the transport team and the other departments / entity involved: Control Tower & COM departments, BTL Uganda, and site teams (Port/Buffer Yard/TIS plant & other place of loading/offloading). Team Management o Supervise and give guidance on daily operational issues.
  
• Provide a positive learning environment to strengthen and educate the team he/she responsible for.
  
• Manage staff including appraisals and coaching.
  
• Prepare JDs including Performance Indicators definition for each position within the Transport team, adapt team tasks according to Operations requirements if needed. He/she is proactive on suggestions of team organization/reorganization if needed, in order to maintain and improve the service level.
  
• Maintain good relationship with the transporters
  
• Assist to conduct suppliers HSE Performance Review
  
• Ensure standardisation of operating procedures with suppliers as per MLC’s requirements, including requirements on IVMS and reporting to be received from transporters
  
• Monitor supplier performance (Rate of bookings met etc.)
  
• Obtain best rates with high quality service as per Project’s Requirement Operational Excellence o Monitor his/her activity by the production of weekly and monthly reports (KPIs, HSE figures etc.)
  
• Maintain good service level by implementing a permanent Improvement Plan to meet Project’s objectives and monitor the effectiveness of actions taken by implementing Key Indicators.
  
• Participate to operational meetings with COMPANY, prepare reports and implement actions plans agreed with COMPANY.
  
• Ensure all deadlines and procedures are adhered to. QHSE
  
• In collaboration with QHSE, the Transport Manager assist to conduct investigations to resolve incidents/accidents. He/She implements corrective actions to prevent the same events from occurring again.
  
• Participate to all safety training as required
  
• Adhere to all HSE requirements of the project
  

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Logistics or any other related discipline
  
• Sound knowledge of the road transport business locally and internationally
  
• Customer Service
  
• Strong ethics in dealings with customers, suppliers and contractors
  
• 10 years’ experience in Freight Forwarding 5 of which should be in a Road Freight Head or similar role