Outbound Logistics Section Manager | alfanar Electric

Job description: Job Purpose To manage and coordinate outbound logistics operations within the section, ensuring the timely, cost-effective, and accurate delivery of finished goods to customers, projects, and distribution centers. The role supervises transportation planning, shipment execution, and logistics provider performance, while maintaining compliance with company policies, service standards, and customer requirements. Functional Responsibilities Outbound Logistics Planning • Plan and schedule outbound shipments based on sales orders, project timelines, and customer requirements. • Consolidate shipment requests to optimize transportation costs and improve delivery efficiency. • Assign transporters in coordination with procurement and logistics guidelines. Transportation and Distribution Management • Oversee the daily dispatch of finished goods to wholesale, project, and export customers. • Monitor shipment progress and ensure on-time delivery while minimizing delays and penalties. • Coordinate with transport providers to resolve issues and ensure service quality. Service Provider Performance Monitoring • Evaluate transporter performance against key criteria, including on-time delivery, order completion, and service reliability. • Conduct regular meetings with logistics providers to review performance and implement improvement measures. Documentation and Compliance • Ensure the accuracy and completeness of shipping documents, including Proof of Delivery (POD). • Maintain compliance with relevant regulations, contractual obligations, and company policies. Cost Control and Optimization • Identify opportunities to reduce outbound logistics costs through route optimization, load consolidation, and negotiation with service providers. • Manage quotations and approvals for shipments to non-contracted destinations. Issue Resolution • Address operational issues related to delivery delays, POD discrepancies, and payment processing for logistics providers. • Escalate recurring or critical issues to higher management with recommended corrective actions. Team Supervision • Supervise section staff handling outbound logistics operations, ensuring adherence to procedures and timelines. • Provide guidance, training, and support to improve team efficiency and performance. Reporting and KPIs • Track and report section-level KPIs, such as on-time delivery, logistics cost per shipment, and transporter performance. • Prepare regular reports for management on outbound logistics performance and improvement initiatives. General Responsibilities HR Proficiency: • Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management. • Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them. • Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination. • Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results. • Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy. Responsibility: • Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines. • Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them • Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions. Delivery: • Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost. • Making a Tangible Difference: • Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations. Business Planning and Performance: • Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans. • Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans. • Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly. • Provide periodic work progress reports. • Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency. Organizational Development: • Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans. • Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment. Business Process Improvements: • Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible. • Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business. • Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture. Quality: • Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly. Adaptation: • Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models. Health, Safety and Environment: • Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations. Qualification Bachelor in Electrical Engineering or Mechanical EngineeringExperience 6 to 10 YearsSkills Logistics AnalysisLogistics NetworksVendor ManagementShipping ManagementProblem Solving Profile description: Alfanar is a Saudi company with an international presence, primarily engaged in the manufacturing and trading of a wide variety of low, medium, and high voltage electrical products, in addition to its portfolio of conventional and renewable energy solutions, oil and gas, water treatment, infrastructure, technical services, and digital solutions. The hub of alfanar’s manufacturing operations is Medinet alfanar Alsinaiya, a 700,000 square-meter complex located in Riyadh. The complex houses an array of ultra-modern manufacturing facilities and laboratories equipped with state-of-the-art technologies and staffed with highly skilled professionals. alfanar derives its success from its commitment to providing the highest quality standards to its customers, and the continuous development of its human capital, who alfanar considers its most valuable asset. With this in mind, alfanar promotes a proactive work environment where its employees are always valued, nurtured, and empowered to fuel their pride in being part of alfanar. For more information about alfanar, please visit alfanar.com Show more Show less

Outbound Logistics Planning: Plan and schedule outbound shipments based on sales orders, project timelines, and customer requirements; Consolidate shipment requests to optimize transportation costs and improve delivery efficiency; Assign transporters in coordination with procurement and logistics guidelines. Transportation and Distribution Management: Oversee the daily dispatch of finished goods to wholesale, project, and export customers; Monitor shipment progress and ensure on-time delivery while minimizing delays and penalties; Coordinate with transport providers to resolve issues and ensure service quality. Service Provider Performance Monitoring: Evaluate transporter performance against key criteria, including on-time delivery, order completion, and service reliability; Conduct regular meetings with logistics providers to review performance and implement improvement measures. Documentation and Compliance: Ensure the accuracy and completeness of shipping documents, including Proof of Delivery (POD); Maintain compliance with relevant regulations, contractual obligations, and company policies. Cost Control and Optimization: Identify opportunities to reduce outbound logistics costs through route optimization, load consolidation, and negotiation with service providers; Manage quotations and approvals for shipments to non-contracted destinations. Issue Resolution: Address operational issues related to delivery delays, POD discrepancies, and payment processing for logistics providers; Escalate recurring or critical issues to higher management with recommended corrective actions. Team Supervision: Supervise section staff handling outbound logistics operations, ensuring adherence to procedures and timelines; Provide guidance, training, and support to improve team efficiency and performance. Reporting and KPIs: Track and report section-level KPIs, such as on-time delivery, logistics cost per shipment, and transporter performance; Prepare regular reports for management on outbound logistics performance and improvement initiatives.