Candidate Profile

As a Transport Back Office Manager, you would be responsible for the following:

Daily Activities:

1. Resource Planning:

• Responsible for the coordination and preparation of the road transport budget.

• Budgeting for transportation projects,

• Fleet scope development (Fuel, Lubricants and Special chemicals and NBE),

• Transport Network Planning and Optimization using LAMASOFT and ORTEC,

• Develop Profit and Liability models for transporter development programmes

• Responsible for BUDCOM preparation for the transport division.

• Forecasting of transport costs over the contractual period regarding economic indicators

Reporting:

• Conduct data analytics on key Transportation metrics -

o spend, monthly kilometres travelled, volumes delivered, long-distance trips per day, capacity utilisation, fleet utilisation, and rand per kilometre, drops/trip or cents per litre or rand/ton.

• Create reports and Power BI dashboards to gain and share business insights.

• Forecasting - using statistical tools such as regression and time series-based forecasting model

• Ensuring that SAP posting is done into the correct budget codes for road transport

• Use SAP as the source for all above-mentioned reports, except those sourced from the KPI system.

• Management of Finance audit findings to completion

• Ensuring that PCA has correct transport costs for cost allocation to other departments

Performance Monitoring and Improvement:

• Monitor to ensure that all information is captured by contractors and consolidated into the KPI system

• Consolidate HSE information from Ramses into the transport KPI system

• Lean Methodologies (Lean Six- Sigma) - Continuous Improvement Tools

• Problem Solving

Transport Rates system:

• Maintain and support Primary allocation tool, ensuring accurate transport rates and management of reports and KPIs.

People Management:

• To effectively manage employees through applying the company people management principles and develop, coach and mentor subordinates.

• Interactions with Finance, B2B (Marketing), Retail

HSEQ and Technical

• To effectively manage and minimise the risk associated with transport operations by ensuring:

o compliance with all HSE Policies, rules, guidelines and legal requirements within the area of responsibility;

o promotion of a safe working environment and positively contributing to the company's HSE KPIs and risk reduction strategies

o that HSE competency requirements are enforced within the area of responsibility

Activities

As a Transport Back Office Manager, you would possess the following:

• Relevant Master's Degree or Equivalent advisable (Finance, Transport & Supply Chain, Engineering, hard Sciences)

• SAP Knowledge essential

• Proficient in Data Visualisation Tools - Power-BI and/or Tableau

• Lean Six-Sigma (Green Belt)

• Proficient in Excel

• Knowledge of transport and depot operations

• Knowledge of central routing and scheduling

• Knowledge of company policies and procedures

• HSEQ Knowledge

Context & Environment

• Technical: Financial Management, Accounting

• Liaison between transport contractor, routing and scheduling team and Transporter management team regarding finance.

• Legal: Terms and conditions of Transport contracts/operational agreements with contracted transporters as well as non-contracted transporters. Specific attention and to be cautious to transporters who are also B2B contracts.

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TotalEnergies is an equal opportunity employer and all applicants that meet the specified criteria will receive consideration for employment without discriminating unfairly on any arbitrary ground, including but not limited to race, gender, sex, ethnic or social origin, colour, sexual orientation, age, disability, religious conscience belief, political opinion, culture, language, marital status, or family responsibility.