2 - 5 Years
Permanent
Job Description
Job Description: Assistant Manager – Operations
Department: Operations
Function: Sort Center Operations
Job Summary
Responsible for managing end-to-end sort center operations, ensuring timely shipment sortation, staging, dispatch, operational efficiency, and service-level adherence. The role involves team leadership, performance monitoring, process improvement, and cross-functional coordination.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee daily sort center operations, including shipment flow, sortation, staging, dispatch, and shift handovers.
- Monitor operational KPIs, identify bottlenecks, and implement corrective actions to achieve targets.
- Lead Shift In-charges, Line Leaders, Process Associates, and on-roll/off-roll teams.
- Manage manpower planning, rostering, attendance, productivity, and performance.
- Train and mentor teams on SOPs, quality standards, and safety practices.
- Drive Lean, Kaizen, and 5S initiatives to improve throughput and reduce operational costs.
- Ensure compliance with EHS standards, workplace safety, audits, and incident reporting.
- Coordinate with Transportation, HR, IT, Maintenance, and Quality teams to ensure smooth operations.
- Prepare MIS reports, analyze performance trends, and elevate operational issues to senior management.
- Handle customer complaints, vendor coordination, and service-related escalations.
Required Qualifications & Skills
- Graduate in any discipline; Logistics or Supply Chain qualification preferred.
- Relevant experience in sort center, warehouse, logistics, or e-commerce operations.
- Strong team management and shift-handling experience, including vendor staff.
- Knowledge of shipment flow, routing, logistics systems, and operational KPIs.
- Proficiency in MS Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
- Strong analytical, communication, problem-solving, and stakeholder management skills.
- Willingness to work rotational shifts and extended hours as required.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Shipment sortation accuracy and dispatch SLA adherence.
- Sort center throughput and productivity.
- Manpower utilization and cost per package.
- Shipment backlog and turnaround time.
- Safety, quality, and process compliance.
- Team productivity, attendance, and attrition.
- Customer complaint resolution and operational efficiency.
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