Fleet Manager Job in Kenya

BPC Africa is one of the leading consulting firms in the East, Central and Southern Africa Region.

Our vision is to deliver best value that business can find through partnering in Strategy, Organization and People.

We partner with both local and international clients to source for best talent in a number of Specialized and Generalist areas.

Our client, a leading manufacturing company is sourcing for dynamic and results driven professional in the position of:-

Fleet Manager

One Position

East Africa

This position will contribute to the Supply Chain Strategy by developing a progressive and compliant Fleet Management strategy to ensure service delivery while implementing overall Supply Chain Strategy in line with business objectives.

Job Profile

Essential KRAs the role holder needs to deliver?
  • Availability of trucks on time for local FG and RM/PM deliveries
  • Improve reliability of trucks and other vehicles
  • Track spend on fuel & maintenance of trucks and other vehicles and identify improvement opportunities
  • Set-up a process for timely & effective vehicle maintenance
  • Drive cost savings in collaboration with third party transporters
  • Track and improve third party transporter reliability
  • Monitoring and Reporting

Critical capability factors this person must have to be successful? (Leading Self & Leading Others)

1) Leading Self - Good knowledge of vehicle maintenance. Also the incumbent should be highly motivated to work in a challenging environment(should be easily adaptable to the business environment

2) Leading Others- The incumbent should be collaborative, as his day-to-day working will cut across function functions(Marketing, Sales and Stores)

3) Leading Business - Very high on self-motivation; given that hair business is prone to frequent market shifts, the incumbent should be highly flexible and adaptable in his working style

Key Internal Interfaces

1) Stores

2) Sales & Marketing

3) Technical/R&D

Academic & Professional qualifications, Experience
  • Bachelors in Engineering /other discipline, Masters studies shall be added advantage
  • Must have prior experience in Logistics/Transportation in Kenya
  • 6-8 Years of experience in the relevant field
The Following Key Competencies will apply for the above job:- Change champion who is result oriented, customer service, excellent communication skills, project management, problem solving skills, analytical skills with attention to details, team leadership with demonstrated negotiation & interpersonal skills and a high degree of professionalism and ethics

Interested candidates should send their detailed CVs indicating current remuneration on or before 31st July, 2013 to the following address:

Business Partner Consulting

Email address: talentsearch@bpc.co.ke