Transport Manager - North Island Location

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Newly created role, your chance to establish the Transport function for significant NZ Food Manufacturing business.

Summary about this job

Road Transport

Company: Tribe (New Zealand) Limited

Location: Auckland

Work type: Full Time

Salary: n\a

Phone: +64-3-190-2793

Fax: +64-7-514-2827

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Detail information about job Transport Manager - North Island Location. Terms and conditions vacancy

  • Multi-national Food business
  • Great potential to progress your career
  • New role, strong project element
The Company

This is a rare opportunity to join Silver Fern Farms at an exciting time of change. Reporting into the Logistics Manager, you will join a highly commercial and talented Supply Chain Team and work in an environment where you can learn, develop and progress your career. Silver Fern Farms operates across a multi-site environment managing a network of their own DC's and manufacturing facilities.
  
The Role
  
The Transport Manager role is a new, integral role within the Supply Chain team tasked with supporting the strategy and contributing to the business planning process. Ideally based in either Hawkes Bay or Waikato, the primary focus of the role is the timely and efficient transportation of product from our suppliers to our manufacturing plants.  Simultaneously, building outstanding relationships between third party providers, government and internal field staff.  A key focus will also be management of freight expenditure to budget, investigating opportunities for cost saving, optimising load utilisation, and ensuring regulatory compliance. Critical to this role is the leadership to drive change within a traditional channel while project managing a new TMS initiative.
  
The Person
  
Previous experience working in transport is preferred but not essential, as long as you have proven vendor management skills. This is a critical time for the business as they undergo an exciting period of change to achieve optimal logistical performance.   You must have highly developed communication and relationship building skills and will be able to demonstrate strong vendor relationship management. Evidence of key relationships you have built internally and externally will be clearly illustrated in your career to date.
This is a new role created during an exciting period of change within Silver Fern Farms. It would suit someone who is energetic, visionary and courageous. Possessing drive and ambition, you won’t be afraid of taking the business through a changing transportation model.  Experience, and sound knowledge, of transport management system software would be an advantage.
If this sounds like the challenge you have been waiting for, apply now!

To apply online please click the 'Apply' button. For a confidential discussion about this role please contact Amanda Howe on +64 27 6453855 or email [email protected]

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