Outbound Logistics Section Manager

Requisition ID:30674

CityD. WAREHOUSE

Group overview:

Headquartered in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, we operate construction and manufacturing businesses, design & development centers and a host of facilities in the Middle East and other countries.

alfanar is involved in:

• Electrical, Electromechanical and Civil Engineering Construction
• Manufacturing and Marketing Electrical Construction Products
• Allied Engineering Services

Our Main Divisions:

• alfanar electric
• alfanar Construction
• alfanar Building Systems

alfanar electric

alfanar electric is the industrial arm of alfanar, manufacturing a variety of low, medium and high voltage electrical construction products.

alfanar electric operates industries in:

• Riyadh and Jubail, Saudi Arabia
• Dubai, UAE
• London, UK

alfanar has a development and engineering center in Chennai, India.

Industrial Complex, Riyadh

The center of alfanar’s industrial activities is alfanar Industrial Complex situated in the Third Industrial Zone on Al-Kharj Road, Riyadh.

Spread across 700,000 square meters, the Complex houses alfanar’s facilities.

The Complex has a comprehensive infrastructure including a data and communication center as well as a commercial zone.

Job Purpose

To manage and coordinate outbound logistics operations within the section, ensuring the timely, cost-effective, and accurate delivery of finished goods to customers, projects, and distribution centers. The role supervises transportation planning, shipment execution, and logistics provider performance, while maintaining compliance with company policies, service standards, and customer requirements.

Functional Responsibilities

Outbound Logistics Planning

• Plan and schedule outbound shipments based on sales orders, project timelines, and customer requirements.
• Consolidate shipment requests to optimize transportation costs and improve delivery efficiency.
• Assign transporters in coordination with procurement and logistics guidelines.

Transportation and Distribution Management

• Oversee the daily dispatch of finished goods to wholesale, project, and export customers.
• Monitor shipment progress and ensure on-time delivery while minimizing delays and penalties.
• Coordinate with transport providers to resolve issues and ensure service quality.

Service Provider Performance Monitoring

• Evaluate transporter performance against key criteria, including on-time delivery, order completion, and service reliability.
• Conduct regular meetings with logistics providers to review performance and implement improvement measures.

Documentation and Compliance

• Ensure the accuracy and completeness of shipping documents, including Proof of Delivery (POD).
• Maintain compliance with relevant regulations, contractual obligations, and company policies.

Cost Control and Optimization

• Identify opportunities to reduce outbound logistics costs through route optimization, load consolidation, and negotiation with service providers.
• Manage quotations and approvals for shipments to non-contracted destinations.

Issue Resolution

• Address operational issues related to delivery delays, POD discrepancies, and payment processing for logistics providers.
• Escalate recurring or critical issues to higher management with recommended corrective actions.

Team Supervision

• Supervise section staff handling outbound logistics operations, ensuring adherence to procedures and timelines.
• Provide guidance, training, and support to improve team efficiency and performance.

Reporting and KPIs

• Track and report section-level KPIs, such as on-time delivery, logistics cost per shipment, and transporter performance.
• Prepare regular reports for management on outbound logistics performance and improvement initiatives.

General Responsibilities

HR Proficiency:

• Ability to recruit, recognize and cultivate high performers and expose them in order to create a robust second line of management.
• Ability to recognize low performers and guide them to improve or release them.
• Ability to treat subordinates equally without any discrimination.
• Assessment criteria of subordinates is performance that leads to planned results.
• Ensure availability of delegation of authority matrix to have sufficient delegations as per company policy.

Responsibility:

• Must take full responsibility for his operation as per the job description and the required deliverables from this position, taking into consideration the general company guidelines.
• Able to anticipate problems and make the necessary proactive steps to prevent them
• Ability to take necessary and proper timely decisions.

Delivery:

• Deliver the required results in timely manner with required quality and cost.
• Making a Tangible Difference:
• Must make a tangible difference to his area of operation. and exceed business expectations.

Business Planning and Performance:

• Able to transform the corporate goals into business plans.
• Able to Plan, follow-up and execute those plans, whether they are annual or development plans.
• Monitor the plan performance and initiate action to strengthen results and take the corrective action accordingly.
• Provide periodic work progress reports.
• Responsible for monitoring and controlling budgets and expenses to achieve the optimum cost efficiency.

Organizational Development:

• Develop the organizational structure according to the current requirements taking into consideration future and development plans.
• Ensure availability of job descriptions for all job roles and deployment.

Business Process Improvements:

• Develop, coordinate well-defined written systems, policies, procedures, and seek automations opportunities as much as possible.
• Should be conversant and able to navigate through IT solutions especially those relevant to his job and business.
• Promote the automated systems and using them fully, to spread its culture.

Quality:

• Quality is considered as alfanar’s prime competitive advantage as such, managers are expected to act accordingly.

Adaptation:

• Adapt to new and alternative techniques, technologies, management structures, and business models.

Health, Safety and Environment:

• Ensure a safe, secure, and legal work environment as per the standard regulations.

Qualification

Bachelor in Electrical Engineering or Mechanical Engineering

Experience

6 to 10 Years

Skills

Logistics Analysis

Logistics Networks

Vendor Management

Shipping Management

Problem Solving