Senior Transport Operation Head – Kerchanshe Trading Company
Logistics, Transport and Supply Chain
Kerchanshe Trading Company
As the largest producer and exporter of coffee in Ethiopia, Kerchanshe Trading has a proud history of providing quality coffees to the local and international markets. Founded on the principles of bringing fairness and transparency to the coffee value chain while satisfying customer demand, Kerchanshe is also a company with heart and vision.
Kerchanshe specializes in coffees sourced from Yirgacheffe, Lekempti, Gimbi, Djimma, and Sidamo, names that epitomise fine Arabica coffee. Since its inception 15 years ago, Kerchanshe has established a track record of fair trading and excellent customer service, and now employs over 1,250 permanent staff and 10,000 seasonal staff. Directly and indirectly, it impacts the livelihoods of over 1 million coffee growers throughout the southern and south-western coffee-cultivating regions of Ethiopia.
The passion for fine coffee is coupled with consistent reinvestment not only in improved infrastructure, technology and processes, but Kerchanshe also invests 10% of its annual profits into social responsibility programs such as building schools and providing clean water to the communities it serves
OUR VISION
To be the leader in innovation and quality among coffee producers and exporters while caring for the environment.
OUR MISSION
We are committed to providing the finest high-quality coffee beans to our customers worldwide while forging mutually beneficial relationships with the community and the environment that we live in.
QUALITY POLICY
At Kerchanshe we are highly conscious of the fact that the quality of our beans is what sets us apart.
Job Purpose:
- To lead and manage transport operation by supervising shipments, routes, orders, transportation costs, and ensuring compliance with shipping regulations, and maintaining records.
Generic Duties:
- Sets deadlines in ways that comply with department’s plans and communicate them to subordinates.
- Organizes workflow and ensure that employees understand their duties or delegated tasks.
- Monitors employee productivity and provide constructive feedback and coaching.
Main Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensures maximum fleet efficiency and effectiveness through planned resource allocation and maintenance.
- Ensures the monthly vehicle utilization report is produced with full analysis of monthly maintenance cost, fuel consumption, and accident report.
- Oversees transport service provision programs based on the service need of various work units.
- Oversees the development and implementation of vehicle management and maintenance program.
- Ensures that all company vehicles are insured, and the insurance is current and renewed.
- Oversees preventive and corrective maintenance program of vehicles.
- Ensures that the annual technical inspection of vehicles and trucks is performed on time.
- Identifies logistical bottlenecks and proposes and the ways to fill the gaps and ensure proper distribution mechanism is put in place.
- Directs the assignment and supervision of drivers in the provision of transport services.
- Oversees fuel consumptions and other costs associated with the provision of transport services.
- Interfaces with Managers to evaluate alternative supply networks that optimize cost and service objectives while considering changes in business and customer profiles; provides transportation expertise to these initiatives.
- Collaborates with customs clearance team for the freight forward tasks.
- Develops effective relationships with internal customers (i.e., sales, procurement, finance etc.).
- Ensures that fleet capital investments yield a favorable return; manages appropriate spare ratios and asset disposal.
- Evaluates the transport service provision to different work units and takes appropriate corrective actions when required.
- Performs other duties assigned by the immediate supervisor.
Qualification and Skills
- BA or MA in Transport Management, Logistics and Supply Chain Management, Business Management, Management, or related fields.
Experience:
- 8 years for BA
- 6 years for MA
Skills:
- Knowledge of transport regulations.
- Problem-solving & conflict management skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Supervisory and leadership skills.
- Computer literacy, proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel.
- Excellent planning and scheduling skills.
- Time management skills.
- Ability to make decisions on the go in liaison with the relevant stakeholders.
- Problem-solving & conflict management skills
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