Transport Lead

Job Description :

From humble beginnings to extraordinary futures, Diageo is centred on crafting incredible stories of ambitious possibilities. From our iconic global brands such as Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Tanqueray and Don Julio, to our local homegrown heroes Bundaberg Rum, UDL and Reeftip, we are a team of pioneers, looking to lead the future of our industry and brands from today. At Diageo, you will be a chosen custodian of our brand portfolio, entrusted with building brands for consumers to celebrate with in the moments that matter. Alongside you will be a group of ambitious, passionate and innovative people, who will help you to achieve extraordinary heights. Together, you will help us create a future worth celebrating.

Our Supply Chain and Manufacturing team are problem-solvers, sourcing, producing, and delivering our much-loved brands to delight customers around the globe. Over half of Diageo’s 30,000+ people work in Supply Chain and Manufacturing. It’s an intricate and sophisticated operation that’s the product of logistical, manufacturing, and technical collaborations.

Our teams in 100 sites in over 30 countries cover production facilities, supplier relationships, customer collaborations and third-party agreements. We’re committed to realising our ‘Society 2030: Spirit of Progress’ goals, to protect the environment and support our farmers and suppliers. Whatever your skills and experience, we’ll help you to thrive in our inclusive culture.

What will your role be?

This specific role of the Transport Lead is to manage all the transportation requirements of the assigned market to meet consumer and customer service objectives whilst achieving minimum transport / overall distribution costs.

Specifically, the role holder is responsible for defining, providing, controlling and commercially managing all transportation (land, sea and air) within the scope of the market/area. This includes all moves from international material suppliers to delivery of finished goods to customer (excludes local material supplier delivery on supplied terms).

The role holder will ensure that transport service objectives are developed and the right capabilities (local transport suppliers, know-how, systems, processes, network infrastructure and commercial agreements) are provided to the customers and finished goods distribution centres. This will include the day to day operational management of contracted transport partners.

Please note: This position is a 6 month contract position.

What does this role look like for you?

• Accountable for and manage all transportation in the market/area.
• Obtain service standardization and network synergies across an end-to-end transport solution.
• Design and drive an efficient and effective customer delivery scheme by having optimal balance of customer service and transport costs in place.
• Drive and own key change initiatives in transportation to deliver integrated (where possible) and cost-effective transport solutions. -
• Own the executional interface with 3rd party transport service providers, for all transport activities, in the market/area.
• Support a balanced score card approach to performance measurement with standardized supplier metrics and appropriate behaviors to obtain unified performance measures and consistent high level of service.
• Ensure contractual commitments of the suppliers are delivered and exceeded, managed via clearly defined governance structure (target, performance, support).
• Drive all transport suppliers towards high performance levels, delivering and exceeding the (mutually agreed) performance expectations and financial targets by engaging with the suppliers and relevant key stake holders in Business.
• Commercial and contractual ownership and control of the transport budget with all suppliers.
• Accountable for all invoice payments to transportation vendors, and resolution of claims payment processing.
• Fully understand commercial needs of the market and to translate this into required transport capabilities. - Budget management, develop annual operating plans in line with AOP expectations, track and prepare variance analysis reports for expense vs budget.
• Provide tactical direction to the transport suppliers to drive delivery of efficiency & savings in transport spend.

What will you bring to the table?

• Relevant Tertiary Degree desirable but not essential
• Strong computer skills in Microsoft Package and SAP desirable
• Demonstrated understanding or formal training in aspects of the Chain of Responsibility
• Good understanding of the local supply chain operations.
• Transport functional expertise is a key success factor for this role. Detailed knowledge is required across a range of transport activities including; transport execution, multi modal solutions, direct deliveries to retailer, 3rd party and supplier management.
• A solid appreciation of the additional security requirements when moving excise products is preferable.
• Continuous improvement background and skill set.
• Practical outlook with pragmatic decision making abilities.
• Experience in supplier / 3rd party / outsourced logistics solution management.
• Experience in contract development, defining SLAs, processes, procedures and KPIs.
• Influencing and leadership skills.

What are the benefits?

We are an organisation that creates products that are part of celebrations, and our culture reflects this.  At Diageo, you will have the ability to work flexibly to ensure you can unlock your own potential through creating bold plans and executing your vision.

You will also be rewarded through competitive salary and monetary benefits including bonus, flexible leave entitlements and product allowance as well as being supported via non-monetary benefits including an industry leading parental leave policy, volunteering days and workplace giving, and subscriptions to mental health and fitness platforms.

Our commitment to inclusion and diversity:

We know that for our business to thrive and for Diageo to realize its ambition, we depend on having diverse talent with a range of backgrounds, skills and capabilities in each of the 180 countries in which we operate and to reflect our broad consumer base. We view diversity as one of the key enablers that helps our business to grow and our values, purpose and standards set the conditions for us to respect the unique contribution each person brings.

Flexibility is key to success in our business and many of our staff work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, compressed hours, flexible location. Please talk to us about what flexibility means to you and don’t let anything stop you from applying.

Worker Type :

Regular

Primary Location:

Huntingwood

Additional Locations :

Job Posting Start Date :

2025-02-14