Commercial Manager

 

Recruiter:

Broad Based Executive Appointments

Job Ref:

CM47

Date posted:

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

Location:

CapeTown, South Africa

Salary:

Negotiable


SUMMARY:
Commercial Manager

POSITION INFO:

Objectives of the position:

Responsible to manage the Commercial functions – intervention in Operations will be required at times. 

Education and work experience requirements:

  • Grade 12
  • Relevant work experience
  • Previous supervisory / management experience
  • Extensive courier industry knowldge
  •  

Principle accountabilities:

Day to day operations:

  • Core responsibility: Sales Team and Customer Services Team. To lead, drive and exceed profitable growth – ensuring sales targets are aligned to the company’s strategy
  • Analysing sales performance; daily and weekly review meetings - ensuring that the team is focused and driven
  • Lead role in sales ensuring the promise on budget is delivered
  • Assessing profitability and opportunities
  • Assuming a lead role in solving commercial issues that may arise
  • Involvement in asset management  and utilization
  • Emphasis to be placed on increase of Sales and Sales Target
  • Assisting in the completion in annual Budgets and the maintenance thereof
  • Monitor and measure the delivery network  - investigate deliveries in order to maintain the KPI standards
  • Daily report to General Manager with emphasis in point form of the above
  • Ensure that Company Policy and procedures within the branch are adhered to
  • To integrate quality into the business by ensuring that every customer contact is a demonstration of absolute dedication towards providing first time ideal solutions for the satisfaction of customers immediate and future needs
  • Prepare contingency plans in cases of operating system failure on Parcel Perfect

Manage Customer Relationships:

  • To ensure every contact with an internal or external customer is a demonstration of absolute dedication towards providing first time ideal solutions for the satisfaction of our customers immediate and future needs
  • Business retention – expand and further develop existing Client base
  • To ensure every contact with an internal or external customer is a demonstration of absolute dedication towards providing first time ideal solutions for the satisfaction of our customers immediate and future needs
  • Business retention – expand and further develop existing Client base

Operational Management:

  • To evaluate the operating procedure planning during the process flow using Parcel Perfect
  • To maintain the Express Parcel Perfect billing system in immaculate condition.  This includes the smooth running of the billing and invoices
  • To ensure that all operational procedures are maintained in excellent filling order, database on Parcel Perfect is kept in order and cleaned out where necessary
  • Ensure that all inbound shipments are processed accurately and timely according to Rhenus
  • Express procedures and ISO.  Managing and sorting in the correct service products, monitoring of consignment and all deliveries are made on time every time
  • Ensure that checks are done according to policy and procedure
  • Manage the correct hand in of all outbound shipments on the Express network
  • Ensuring that security checks are properly carried out and holding back any shipments and paperwork that cannot be properly accounted for
  • Processing all outbound shipments, meeting and relevant cut off times as agreed
  • Processing all outbound material as per the Express Operating Procedures and Parcel Perfect 
  • Managing and sorting in the correct service products, monitoring of shipments are delivered on time in full

Staff Management:

  • Participate in the recruitment and selection of staff and agree performance standards with new and existing staff
  • Appraising their performance and thereby identifying needs on a regular basis
  • Developing staff by coaching and on the job training and implementing training in Conjunction with the training department
  • Encouraging high levels of motivation and enthusiasm amongst staff members and handling disciplinary matter when required

Management of customer accounts:

  • Compile weekly / monthly billing reports on sales accounts and the exact amount of business and potential business generated by these accounts
  • Providing evidence of weekly finance meetings held with the customer – if / when necessary
  • Follow up and conclude outstanding debtors

Security management:

  • Upholding strict, effective security and billing procedures to ensure our existing and future customers can safely utilize our service





 

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