Manager-Transportation

Job Purpose:

Manage domestic transportation operations across KSA, ensuring safe, compliant, cost-effective, and reliable fleet and subcontracted transport services that meet customer and operational requirements.

KKey Activities

• Plan, manage, and oversee daily road transportation operations across Saudi Arabia, ensuring efficient fleet utilization, route planning, dispatching, driver allocation, and timely delivery execution. • Develop and implement transportation plans and operational strategies to optimize capacity utilization, service reliability, cost efficiency, and customer satisfaction. • Manage owned fleet operations and subcontracted transportation providers, ensuring compliance with agreed service levels, contractual obligations, operational requirements, and performance standards. • Coordinate with customers, warehouses, logistics operations, and internal stakeholders to ensure effective transportation scheduling, capacity planning, and seamless delivery execution. • Monitor and optimize transportation routes, vehicle utilization, driver productivity, idle time, and empty kilometers to improve operational efficiency and reduce unnecessary costs. • Oversee transportation operating expenses, including fuel consumption, maintenance, cost per trip, cost per kilometer, subcontractor charges, claims, and fines. • Monitor transportation revenue, operating margins, cost performance, and profitability to ensure achievement of approved financial and operational targets. • Establish and maintain strong relationships with transportation authorities, fleet service providers, workshops, subcontractors, and other relevant business partners. • Ensure compliance with Saudi transportation regulations, operating permits, vehicle standards, driver licensing requirements, and applicable safety and security procedures. • Implement and enforce transportation safety policies, operational procedures, and risk management practices to ensure safe and compliant fleet operations. • Manage transportation incidents, delivery disruptions, customer complaints, and service failures by conducting root-cause analysis and implementing corrective and preventive actions. • Monitor on-time delivery performance, service quality, fleet availability, and subcontractor performance to ensure customer expectations and service commitments are consistently met. • Collaborate with Finance and Procurement teams on transportation contracts, supplier costs, payment validation, budget monitoring, and financial controls. • Utilize transportation management systems (TMS), telematics, fleet tracking solutions, and route optimization technologies to improve operational visibility and decision-making. • Analyze driver performance, fleet utilization, fuel efficiency, and operational data to identify opportunities for continuous improvement and productivity enhancement. • Lead, supervise, and develop transportation supervisors, dispatchers, drivers, and operational teams through performance management, coaching, training, and workforce planning. • Prepare and present operational performance reports covering transportation costs, fleet utilization, delivery performance, safety compliance, and key operational risks. • Identify and implement process improvements to enhance transportation efficiency, reduce operating costs, strengthen safety performance, and support business growth.