Senior Overland Freight Operations Leader

6 Pence

Capital Governorate

On-site

BHD 12,000 - 18,000

Full time

8 days ago
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Job summary

6 Pence, a global market leader in shipping and transport logistics, seeks a Senior Overland/Road Freight Operations Team Leader (Domestic & Cross Border) to coordinate planning and operations ensuring fast, reliable and cost-efficient movement of goods from origin to destination.

You will lead the team, draft routes, monitor carrier performance, and ensure compliance with safety and regulatory requirements across regional networks.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's Degree in a related field.
  • Minimum 3 to 5 years of experience in the Overland Freight Industry (domestic & cross border).

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate plans and processes for transport operations
  • Coach and guide the team for execution of day-to-day tasks and activities to meet work schedules and targets
  • Execute transport activities including safe operations of machines and warehouse and distribution activities such as receive, handle, store, record and dispatch goods
  • Draft route plans and load schedules, maximize consolidation levels in to service area, choose appropriate transportation, modify and communicate plans as per scheduling changes
  • Closely follow up for critical material transportation and special deliveries, and establish emergency plans and coordinate customs processes, if required
  • Define and record resources and movements on the transport planning system
  • Track performance of the subcontractors against set standards
  • Manage the carrier network for specific traffic region and achieve consistency of carrier service with defined standards and compliance with pallet and claim policies
  • Track delivery exceptions from the carriers and report back to principal and/ or customer service team
  • Examine and resolve customer service issues and exceptions, and prepare, process and distribute required customer reports accurately and on time
  • Participate in development and completion of transportation and traffic project activities such as transportation service analysis and consolidation studies
  • Achieve adherence to operating, environmental and safety procedures and standards through training and communication
  • Report financial, operational and customer information to improve overall network performance and cost management
  • Highlight issues and opportunities, and execute better transport operations methods and techniques focusing on increasing effectiveness and efficiency, and controlling costs

Skills

Transportation Planning
Warehouse Management Systems
Transportation Management Systems
Transport
Legislation
Delivery Performance
Cost Reduction
Third Party Logistics
Trucking
Civil Aviation
Flight Planning
Technology Trends
Workflow Automation
DHL Business Knowledge
Business Processes
Business Strategy
Project
Management
Stakeholder Management
Influencing
Feedback
Presentation & Storytelling
Facilitation
Negotiation
People Management
Resourcing

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

6 Pence, a global market leader in shipping and transport logistics, seeks a Senior Overland/Road Freight Operations Team Leader (Domestic & Cross Border) to coordinate planning and operations ensuring fast, reliable and cost-efficient movement of goods from origin to destination.

You will lead the team, draft routes, monitor carrier performance, and ensure compliance with safety and regulatory requirements across regional networks.

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