Site Logistic Manager in Arad

PERSONAL QUALITIES

•Educated to degree level or equivalent
•Minimum 5 years experience of managing a logistics operation
•Proven management of direct reports, including target setting & review
•Availability for short and medium-term business trips abroad
•Excellent communicator
•Excellent spoken and written English (essential attribute)
•Proven experience of budget setting and review
•Experience in a fast-moving environment
•Experience of automotive logistics preferable
•Experience dealing with foreign supply base
•Experience in export principles and requirements, with specific knowledge of local customs practices
•Proven stock management experience
•Experience of operations in a JIT (just-in-time) environment
•Able to communicate professionally at senior management level
•Ability to drive continuous improvement through the logistics function
•Ability to motivate logistics team to achieve challenging targets.

KEY SKILLS

•Excellent spoken and written English (essential attribute)
•Proficient in use of MS Office programs, especially excel and word.
•Demonstrable experience of MRP principles and practice.
•Excellent presentation skills (in English)
•Proven organisational skills

OVERVIEW

The Logistics Manager for the Arad site is a site management team position. Reporting to the General Manager, the role has the overall responsibility for all supply chain activities for the Arad manufacturing operation. Operating in a site with 2500 personnel, the incumbent must possess the skills required to maintain LEONI’s world-class supply performance. In order to achieve this, the selected candidate must have experience of controlling a supply chain in a fast-moving environment, preferably within the automotive sector. The Logistics Manager is expected to set, agree, and meet budgeted stock and delivery targets.

The Logistics Manager will interact with other group Logistics Managers, and will be expected to participate in an environment that actively promotes continuous improvement and cost reduction.

The logistics department, in it’s various areas, constitutes over 100 personnel, who are managed through an organisational structure with the Logistics Manager at it’s head. The logistics manager is expected to motivate and monitor team performance through all levels, to maintain and improve the logistics performance. The business relies completely on the success of the logistics operation for both manufacture and delivery of LEONI’s products.

AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY

•Production Planning
•Material Requirements Planning
•Supplier Scheduling
•Goods Receipt
•Material Storage
•Supply to Internal Manufacturing Areas
•Product Warehousing
•Despatch
•Export
•Freight

PRINCIPLE ACCOUNTABILITIES

•Meeting 100% supplier delivery performance
•Maintain 100% internal material supply performance to manufacturing areas
•Maintain a stock accuracy of over 98%
•Achieve the corporate delivery performance targets, in terms of transit time and packing densities.
•Meet freight cost improvement targets
•Achieve the corporate stock targets

REPORTING RESPONSABILITIES

•Direct to the Site General Manager.
•Matrix line to the LWSUK Head of Logistics

Leoni Wiring Systems is a part of Leoni Group, a multinational company with headquarters in Nuremberg, Germany, with a staff of 18,500 worldwide manufacturing wires, cables and wiring systems for automotive, home appliance, communication and mechanical engineering industries. As one of the market leaders, Leoni Wiring Systems has nearly 14,000 employees worldwide and is supplying some of the most prestigious clients in the automotive industry: Daimler Chrysler, BMW, Porsche, Rover, Bentley, Rolls Royce, Aston Martin etc. The wiring systems division has developped rapidly in the past years due to the subcontracting tendency in the automotive industry required by a fluctuating demand and a permanent request for cost reduction.

In order to consolidate its leader position Leoni Wiring Systems has decided to develop projects in Eastern Europe with production units in Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Ukraine and Romania.

Due to its strategic geographical position allowing fast delivery and a flexible work force, Romania is also an attractive country for the implementation of Leoni projects. The first Leoni unit in Romania is in Arad since 1999 employing 1,850 people supplying to Rover Group, Ford Premier Automotive Group, Bentley, Aston Martin, Mc Laren, DAF.

In 2002 has started in Bistrita the building of the second Leoni unit in Romania, producing wiring systems for Daimler Chrysler and BMW.

Leoni represent a chance for all school leavers and graduates. The company is offering the possibility to learn a new job and build a career in a multinational company. Leoni also is offering a long term opportunity for those looking for a work place.