Depot Manager Job 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 Position: Depot Manager

Requisition ID: 5084
Job Location: Nigeria

About the Job

• Ensure coordination of all depot activities to ensure that goods are received and despatched according to company procedures.

What You'll be Doing
Health, Safety & Security:

• Ensure compliance with LAP Workplace Heath, Safety and Environnement polices, 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.
• 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 continuos use of PPE within the depot premises.
• Reporting of Unsafe Acts and Unsafe Conditions and at Risk behaviour on icare.
• Conducts contingency plans for managing  incidents or accidents on site
• Lead recovery actions for incidents or accidents.
• Work with Country depot safety manager to drive zero road traffic accident for secondary redistribution trucks from the depot

Stock Management & Control:

• Coordinate all depot activities to ensure that goods are received and despatched 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 damages 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 availabity 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 ageing 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 order 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, transloading and redirect in line with standard procedure
• Utilize the log on mobile 100% for all receipt 
• Drive CICO at depot to less than 6 hours average

Cost and Control:

• Delivers reduction in all depot related cost
• 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 shared regularly as per direction
• Daily, Weekly and Monthly report and reconciliation in line with standard

Requirements
Knowledge & Experience:

• B.Sc / HND Holder in any discipline 
• Knowledge of manufacturing industry
• At least 5 years of experience in manufacturing, supply chain or logistics preferably a people manager 
• 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
• Good supervisory and people management skills
• Organizing and planning skills
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Good communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills 
• Leadership and ownership drive  
• Experience of managing teams and external stakeholders

Profile Required:

• Knowledge of manufacturing industry
• At least 5 years of experience in manufacturing, supply chain or logistics preferably a people manager
• 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
• Good supervisory and people management skills
• Organizing and planning skills
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Good communication skills
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Leadership and ownership drive
• Experience of managing teams and external stakeholders

Who you'll work with
Internal Relationships:  

• Depot Supervisor/Assistant
• Safety officer
• Forklift driver
• Other depot staffs

External Relationships:

• Drivers / Transporters
• End Users
• Distributors
• Transport managers/Planning managers/Customer service
• Sales Managers

Financial:

• Each Depot manager will be responsible for streamlining the operational cost of the depot, and fixed Imprest to be reconciled monthly
• Infrastructure
• The position will be provided with adequate means of communications and a PC.
• Standardised tools and templates for recording, analysing and reporting information

Organizational Structure:

• Reports to the Regional Depot & Key Account Logistics Manager