What you'll be doing
Health, Safety & Security:

Stock Management & Control:

Depot Administration:

Sales Drive & Competitive Intelligence:

Who you'll be working with:
List of direct reports:

Key interfaces, stakeholders and relationships:

The objective of the Depot Manager is to implement the Depot operational strategy to ensure efficiency and effectiveness of the depot.
The depot manager is responsible for managing the depot location for the business.
The job duties include overseeing the daily operations of the depot, meeting specified profit targets, and ensuring all safety procedures are being followed.

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

Coordinate all depot activities to ensure that goods are received and dispatched 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 damage 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 availability 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

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 aging analysis of depot Cement Stock to prevent revenue loss on account of aged.
Ownership of secondary redistribution trucks, including efficiency

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 orders 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)

Plans the receipt of primary trucks and products into the depot
Coordinates offloading, trans-loading and redirect in line with standard procedure
Utilize the log on mobile 100% for all receipts
Drive CICO at depot to less than 6 hours average

A Bachelor's degree in an discipline
Post graduate degree in Supply Chain Management will be an added advantage
At least 5 years’ experience in manufacturing, supply chain or logistics preferably a people manager
Experience of managing teams and external stakeholders
Knowledge of manufacturing industry
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

Depot Manager (abia) At Lafarge Africa Plc