Assistant Manager, APAC Transportation & Forwarder Management

Tasks

You will be supporting the managing of the full life circle of our road transportation network in the APAC region : Ø Transportation Planning Management : Transportation planning Management & contract phase : from concept / specifications book - contract making to supplier awarding Ø Supplier Mgmt. (before go-live and after go-live of a supplier) : Management of the supplier implementation to ensure go-live and day-to-day operations quality management when supplier performance is not meeting to our MB expectations & specifications. Transportation Planning Management :

• You will support the L5 manager in his role and you will be his deputy
• You will support the road forwarder contract management of the approx. 10 logistics centres in the Asia Pacific region; and work closely together with and under guidance of CoC colleagues in Germany, Spain and N-America. You support the spare part logistics transportation cost saving initiative in APAC with approx. 5-10 transportation tenders per year and other transport related projects (e.g. central program of reduction of variable costs) together with the team in Germany and other central departments (planning / strategy, purchase, sales). You make sure that transportation projects / tenders are managed on time and on target and drive the day-to-day decision-making. You support in the safeguarding of the overall project management in road transportation projects (project milestone quality gates, steering committees, working groups, alignment calls with the APAC logistics, escalation meetings with forwarders and the purchase department) You will support Transportation related queries and adhoc activities and requests, related to the transportation setup, strategy or required modifications in all the APAC LCs / RLC. Supplier / Forwarder management : Support in the set-up & ramp-up of the GCSP global forwarder quality management system within the APAC region for road transportation including forwarder potential analysis (OSA-onsite assessments, preventive & reactive actions / audits & forwarder development programs) Enable forwarder quality mgmt. in qualification programs (such as auditing, implementation of quality tools & the establishment of a standard quality approach) Drive lessons-learned and training initiatives to permanently improve the project quality, supplier performance and qualification of relevant stakeholders (own staff or other APAC operations) Support in optimizing the planning and purchasing processes and in the development of new methods to accelerate processes and make them more flexible Ensure implementation and day-to-day 2nd level escalation initiatives towards freight suppliers to ensure MB specifications Qualifications

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