Logistics Assistant Manager

Your Role

The primary purpose of this role is to drive the day-to-day logistic operations for the GDM Asia & Australasia region. The incumbent will be responsible for communications with 3rd Party Logistic services, SAP Operations, and preparations of reporting.

Your Key Tasks

• Transportation planning, generating mandatory freight settlement documents
• Communicating with 3PL: communicating order / truck arrangement /pickup arrival time etc with warehouse supplier and transportation supplier
• Report preparation: cost check
• Customs governance & scope definition (APAC): Analyse broker cost/service structures, define customs clearance scope vs. out-of-scope, and map responsibilities across the clearance process
• Process standardisation & knowledge management: Document and maintain end-to-end local customs processes and support formal setup activities (e.g. PoA, broker system access)
• Operational improvement: Identify process gaps and operational issues, and drive continuous improvement initiatives
• Monitoring of ETA, ETA, OTIF KPIs, escalations of issues for logistic operations to Central Teams
• Warehouse operation supervision
• Execution of non-automatized tasks
• Other ad-hoc related tasks

Skills and Experience

• Good communication skills
• Proficient in Microsoft Excel
• Experienced with SAP/S4 HANA
• Good market knowledge of Logistics Industry and Services

Who we are looking for

• Bias for action, drive for results
• Networking and influencing
• A strong sense of ownership and accountability
• Organisationally and analytically strong
• High level of resilience and problem solving
• A dot connector
• Curiosity: A customer centric mindset.
• Ability to perform under tight deadlines
• Relevant values, drivers for this role
  • Performance and growth mindset
  • Agility to thrive in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous world
  • Flexibility to drive change
• Passionate about Tea