Total 2 Logistic Specialist job vacancies in Transportation / Logistics category in Penang

Job responsibilities: 

• Report directly to the Head of Operations in Head Office.
• He/She will collaborate closely with the HQ division for Commercial, Finance, Insurance, Regulatory, QSHE and HR.
• Develop, manage and motivate the staff with aim of driving productivity and efficiency to provide best in class services.
• Develop and nurture relationships with key clients with aim to grow the business
• Collaborate and nurture relationships with vendors and agencies to expand the depth and width of services of the company.
• Ensure adherence to local and international cargo regulations, rules and safety protocols.
• Implement effective tracking and monitoring systems to provide prompt feedback and updates to clients
• Manage and drive profitability of the region.
• Provide monthly management updates to HQ in P&L, business KPI and growth plan. 

Job Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree in related field
• Minimum 10 years’ working experience in logistics or related industry 
• Excellent communications and interpersonal skills to manage clients, vendors, internal stakeholder and staff
• Able to communicate well in English, Malay and local dialects
• Exceptional verbal, written and visual communication skills
• Excellent leadership skills with steadfast resolve and personal integrity. 

- Competitive salary package 

• In plant, responsible mainly for all shipment mode for Outbound shipments (US and JP).
• Main contact with planner, end customer logistics team, shipping, external warehouse (SGL), LOM, engineering, quality team, TMC Vietnam, procurement and LSP for transportation alignment.

Operational services provided by this HC to PgP1 are detailed as follows with each departments:

Planner
a. Alignment on forecast volume, trend and planning.
b. Coordinate on daily shipment including mode of transport request, criticality 
    and etc. and make the best decision on suitable mode of transportation.
c. End to end track and trace for all shipments.
d. Special booking and hypercare attention on expedite/I-STAR/ad-hoc 
    shipment  including being able to support over the weekend or beyond the
    working hours.
e. Attend any plant workshop or meeting by LOG
f. Coordinate on holiday planning and support needed for shipment.
g. Data collection and sharing include monthly and shipment dashboard.
h. Close follow up on shipment transfer to external warehouse to ensure meet
    shipment cut off time.

End customer's logistics team (payers)
a. Support the requirement of end customer on logistics request, ad-hoc shipments, 
    reporting, rate and billing clarifications daily.
b. Quarterly meeting to discuss on LSPs performance, strategization, allocation and other
    arising issue together with PgP1, PUI and network team

Shipping
a. Alignment with Shipping on LSP allocation, expedite shipment arrangement and provide
    clear instruction on critical materials shipments arrangement (delay, pull in and etc.)
b. Coordination on mode of shipment, timeliness of documentation, truck delay or issues
    which not able to perform any of the loading on time.

External warehouse
a. Alignment on mode of shipment, capacity, timing on loading, forecast planning,
    inventory available or to be made available to plan for the loading, invoice cut off to
    meet the cut off time.
b. Coordination on change of mode of shipment where needed to support business
    needs.

LOM/Engineering/Quality team
a. Alignment on shipment arrangement and track and trace for trial shipment on
    packaging change, sample and quality shipment.

TMC (Vietnam)
a. Contact window for Overland shipment with TMC (Vietnam)

Procurement
a. Provide tender support on the volume and sharing/feedback on the LSP performance
    to PUI/LSP manager
b. Ensure rate card is always valid and trigger for action whenever near expiry and
    provide clarification/suggestion on the new rate with improvement needed from LSP.
c. Alignment on new lane introduction or back up plan based on needs and frequency.

LSP
a. Allocation of volume among LSPs, and solve bottleneck in capacity issue
b. Optimize freight based on the allocation and quota rate capped.
c. CIP projects to achieve both process efficiency and cost savings
d. LSP performance management, including change route, exception handling, KPI
    tracking and track and trace.
e. Ability to do strategization towards each LSP according to their performance, dynamic
    capacity and rate
f. Manage LSPs operational deviations including root cause analysis and PDCA for
   improvement.
g. Conduct MBR meeting with LSPs.
h. Coordinate on claim management between internal, LSP including liaising with
    surveyor or adjustor and informing plant regarding to final result and also the
    chargeback (if any).
i. Adhoc quote request.
j. CIP projects to achieve both process efficiency and cost savings
k. CIP projects to achieve both process efficiency and cost savings
l. Conduct regular LSP audit