About Unilever:

Every Day, Around the World, People Reach for Unilever Products. Our Brands Are Trusted Everywhere And, By Listening to The People Who Buy Them, We've Grown into One of The World's Most Successful Consumer Goods Companies. In Fact, 150 Million Times A Day, Someone Somewhere Chooses a Unilever Product.

Look in Your Fridge, Or on The Bathroom Shelf, And You’re Bound to See One of Our Well-Known Brands. We Create, Market and Distribute the Products That People Choose to Feed Their Families and Keep Themselves and Their Homes Clean and Fresh.

Main purpose of the role:
Responsibility of booking containers and trucks, fully responsible of the communication with the shipping lines and transporters.

This role reports direct line to Gulf Transportation Manager.

Key Responsibilities:

• Receiving full container and truck requirement from transportation team.
• Send full month requirements to shipping lines and transporters for reservation.
• Book containers as per required loading time and location and makes sure containers are delivered to the loading location.
• Manage port to warehouse transportation to land containers to loading points on time.
• Calling-off Trucks as per required loading dates and truck type.
• Following up with transporters on the truck and container delivery times lines till check in at loading point.
• Respond to routine enquiries concerning trucks and container availability.
• Track the status of containers and trucks with transporters and communicate issues and provide solutions.
• Monitor and update performance indicators (KPI) for transporters with the support of transportation specialist.
• Maintain communication daily with warehouse and transportation specialists in order to respond on their needs.
• Support Transportation Manager in various optimisation projects.
• Track down all containers and trucks till they reach to loading point with all related documentation.
• Be responsible for full consistency of transportation Ways of Working.
• Full monthly reporting on the details per shipment. (Call-off time and date, delivery time…etc)
• Escalate all business issues on time and with proper details for fast action and decision making.

Professional Skills:

ESSENTIAL

• University degree in Business Administration / Engineering / Logistics
• Fluent in English and in Arabic.
• Proficiency in MS Office applications
• Excellent communication skills

PREFERRED:

• SAP or any ERP system knowledge is preferable
• Good working knowledge of Supply Chain Processes

Experience Required:

• Minimum 2 years of experience in similar positions in Logistics / Planning

Contacts:

• Factories & Warehouses in NAME countries
• Regional Transport Planning Team
• IT
• Local Country Supply Chain Management/ Logistics team

Unilever is an organisation committed to diversity and inclusion to drive our business results and create a better future every day for our diverse employees, global consumers, partners, and communities. We believe a diverse workforce allows us to match our growth ambitions and drive inclusion across the business.

Unilever Gulf commits to provide reasonable accommodations for qualified people who require them based on existing conditions or disabilities that could otherwise hinder their ability to deliver the required tasks. We are also committed to ensuring that colleagues treat everyone with respect and dignity.

If you are an individual with a disability in need of assistance at any time during our recruitment process, please contact us accordingly.

Work location: Dubai, UAE Job Type: Full Time

Company Vision:

To grow a world of wellbeing through the regenerative power of plants.

Company Mission:

A virtuous cycle of growth for everyone connected to our business.

CONSUMER: we will craft winning brands that become the universal beverage of choice: serving only the tastiest products that enrich physical, emotional and social wellbeing.

CLIMATE: we will lead the way and create a net positive, giving back to the planet much more than we take.

COMMUNITY: we will enrich lives by delivering more value per cup and share that value amongst growers, blenders and farming communities.

EMPLOYEES: we will nurture the growth of every employee, maximising learning and impact of every individual.

SHAREHOLDERS: we will lead value creation with sustainable high performance, delivered with transparency and consistency.

Our values:

• Sustainability
• Fun loving
• Risk taking ability
• Simple thinking
• Transparent and fair
• Innovative
• Promote diversity
• Ownership and accountability
• Entrepreneurial

Additional Requirements

• SAP
• ERP system
• degree in Business Administration / Engineering / Logistics