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The Company
One of Australia’s most respected Warehousing, Distribution & Linehaul companies, experiencing significant momentum, is seeking a new Contract Operations Manager for their Adelaide site. The organisation is backed by reputation, trust and customer outcomes.  If you’re looking for an organisation that hears you, appreciates hard work and offers a visible career path you can sink your teeth into, you’ve found a home!

Your Role
As a key member of the senior leadership team, you’ll own the Customer Contract and drive operational efficiency, while managing a Warehousing & Distribution team.  Responsibilities include:

• Ownership of team meetings and field-based leadership, ensuring teams are well resourced, trained and developed
• Operational excellence across dispatch times, resourcing, scheduling jobs and handling emergencies
• Ensuring asset and driver utilisation is at optimum level, high level accuracy with customer expectation and lead times met
• Review, support and approve daily load plans, meeting and exceeding Company and Customer KPIs
• Ensure safety is lived out and at the forefront of all conversations, dialogue and decisions
• Ensure Compliance, Reporting and Legislation requirements are met across your remit

About You

• You’ll love the complexities that come with being a Contract Manager in a busy Linehaul Warehouse, and thrive under pressure
• You're confident managing a fleet of vehicles, and leading people across various sites
• You’re proficient in Warehousing, Transport or Logistics guidelines and legislation
• You have excellent organisational and timekeeping skills, and have demonstrated excellence in your output and delivery for clients
• You are an experienced Contract Manager and uphold customer outcomes at all times
• You are passionate about safety, recruiting and training
• You are confident in the use of Microsoft 365, TMS and EMS operations 

Other Details
The position is full-time and on-site, requiring some travel to Customer Sites.  Due to the nature of the work, you will be required to be contactable for emergencies (rare) and able to start work from 6am.  In return, you will be rewarded with serious career trajectory, starting at between $140K - $160K + Super and scaling likely within 12 months.
  
What to do now
To register your interest in this dynamic position, submit your current confidential CV via the application link. Follow @chillirecruitment on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn for further updates.

About Chilli Recruitment
We promise to partner with high-performing companies and pride ourselves on making sure that you are connected with the right job for you. Once applications have been reviewed, applicants who meet the critical criteria will be contacted for an initial interview and registration. Chilli Recruitment undertakes every effort to handle privacy and aims to be clear and precise about the job description in this advertisement, and further details about the employer will be provided following registration. For further information, visit thechilligroup.com.au.

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