Depot Manager (Abia) at Lafarge Africa Plc

Lafarge Africa Plc is a member of the LafargeHolcim Group – the biggest building and concrete solutions company in the world. It is a publicly quoted company on the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) and serves Nigeria with a wide range of building and construction solutions designed to meet housing and construction needs from small projects like individual home buildings to major construction and infrastructure projects.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Depot Manager

Location: Aba, Abia
Job Type: Full time

Job Description

• The objective of the Depot Manager is to implement the Depot operational strategy to ensure efficiency and effectiveness of the depot.
• The depot manager is responsible for managing the depot location for the business.
• The job duties include overseeing the daily operations of the depot, meeting specified profit targets, and ensuring all safety procedures are being followed.

What you'll be doing 
Health, Safety & Security:

• Ensure compliance with LAP Workplace Heath, Safety and Environment policies, procedures and other regulatory requirements
• Drive LafargeHolcim Health & safety standards within the depot and for secondary transportation activities
• Responsible for security of the entire depot facility, people and products.
• Reporting of Unsafe Acts and Unsafe Conditions and at Risk behavior on icare.
• Conducts contingency plans for managing incidents or accidents on site
• Lead recovery actions for incidents or accidents.
• Review traffic movement plans for the depot.
• Ensure trucks/Equipment safety check and compliance at the depot and escalate safety gaps for closure.
• Manage and ensure correct and continuous use of PPE within the depot premises.
• Work with Country depot safety manager to drive zero road traffic accidents for secondary redistribution trucks from the depot

Stock Management & Control:

• Coordinate all depot activities to ensure that goods are received and dispatched according to company procedures.
• Ensure that the principle of FIFO is adhered to for direct delivery dispatch from the depot
• Ensure safe stock stacking (15bags max height) to prevent damage or loss
• Ensure physical stocks correspond with the book stocks balance all the time
• Manage defective deliveries in line with standard procedure to ensure proper accountability
• Managing stock levels to ensure stock availability of the right product type at all time.
• Ensure stock is properly stored in non-leaking areas and properly covered where required
• Maintain monthly stock count and inventory record accuracy at 99.5% target

Depot Administration:

• Owns and delivers all depot KPIs in line with target
• In charge of people management as well as facility maintenance and overall depot Security
• Ensure that all depot’s operation documents are safely kept
• Coordinate the activities of the depot’s loaders, off loaders and drivers
• Oversee the maintenance of depot facilities.
• Prepare aging analysis of depot Cement Stock to prevent revenue loss on account of aged.
• Ownership of secondary redistribution trucks, including efficiency

Sales Drive & Competitive Intelligence:

• Deliver daily dispatch target including resolving barriers to meet target
• 100% Utilization of log on and HODIM for dispatch
• Liaise with Customer service and sales managers on availability of orders in the pool to meet dispatch targets
• Collaborate with the transport manager and planning managers on the right stock level at the right time arriving to his depot
• Drive 95% on time delivery of orders to Customer location
• Report information on marketing and pricing activities of competitors around the depot
• Maintain a portfolio of customers
• Build relationships with the distributors, retailers and prospects (using the guidelines of the company)

Product Receipt:

• Plans the receipt of primary trucks and products into the depot
• Coordinates offloading, trans-loading and redirect in line with standard procedure
• Utilize the log on mobile 100% for all receipts
• Drive CICO at depot to less than 6 hours average

Cost and Control:

• Delivers reduction in all depot related costs
• Delivers less than 6 hour depot Turnaroud
• Drives 100% adherence to business continuity plan standard procedure
• Safeguard company’s assets through driving the right controls

Reporting:

• Structured information and report regularly shared as per direction
• Daily, Weekly and Monthly report and reconciliation in line with standard

Requirements

• A Bachelor's degree in an discipline
• Post graduate degree in Supply Chain Management will be an added advantage
• At least 5 years’ experience in manufacturing, supply  chain or logistics preferably a people manager
• Experience of managing teams and external stakeholders
• Knowledge of manufacturing industry
• Knowledge of warehousing and supply chain/ logistics core processes
• Customer service
• Good knowledge of SAP and IT systems and applications
• Knowledge of basic finance fundamentals

Who you'll be working with:
List of direct reports:

• Depot Officer
• Safety officer
• Forklift driver
• Other depot staff

Key interfaces, stakeholders and relationships:

• Drivers / Transporters
• Distributors
• End User 
• Transport Manager/Planing Manager.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.

How to Apply
Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online