Clive Otema

Optimistic and adaptable, willing to learn and share experience, strong believer in teamwork and team dynamics.

Fleet Manager

Victory Farms, November 2021 – Present

• Managing fleet maintenance and service schedule with preferred vendor(s)
• Manage the fleet coordinators with the responsibility of route planning, driver assignment and transit behaviour
• Coordinate the distribution of Feeds from the port of Mombasa to the railing into Nairobi and finally third party transport allocation of trucks to deliver to Homa Bay.
• Coordinate with the shipping line, clearing and forwarding and transporters from the time of receiving shipment to railing from port, loading of shipment to the final delivery
• Manage incident and accidents reports and follow ups
• Looks for ways to reduce costs and increase profits, in addition to finding means for getting better fuel efficiency by introduction of fuel probes in the vehicles
• Use of GPS tracking to monitor truck movement and driver behavior en route as well as developing live and historical tracking reports
• Fleet System implementation and coordination to manage fleet maintenance and repair, permit & licence follow ups, route planning and POD management.
• Manage a supplier value plan for suppliers
• Ensure that systems are in place to ensure quick TAT for deliveries as well as TAT for vehicle repair and maintenance
• Manage vendor/ supplier relations
• Project management, driver incentive scheme through use of matrices that can be generated from the tracking system

Freight Forwarders Solutions, March 2019 – November 2021

• Ensuring optimal truck allocation to the daily plan in order to meet schedule requirements
• Increasing revenue by planning co- loads for different clients, resulting to saving up to 30%
• Managing allocation of orders to own fleet & sub-contractors on a day-to-day basis, improving efficiency by 20% through strategic routing
• Managing daily Transport Management System (TMS) schedules as required against plan, experience with Infor ERP, Infor WMS & Sage Evolution systems
• Coordinating & ensuring that orders are delivered on time and in full thus accomplishing set KPIs by ensuring systems are implemented
• Managing the return of POD, improving accountability of clean deliveries by 10%, by conducting regular driver trainings
• Developing transport rate build up for potential clients
• Managing own fleet & subby driver recruitment process.
• Tracking and incident reports and follow up with relevant departments.
• Creating and managing customer value plan for clients
• Implementation of systems to accomplish quick TAT on deliveries at specified drop off points
• Oversee all tracking operations and maintenance of tracking units
• SLA, SOP's and KPI's formulation for clients
• Training drivers on the importance of driver behaviour management on transit
• Customer engagement for issue solving and solution development

Copia Kenya, January 2018 – March 2019

• Monitoring and ensuring fleet operations increasing delivery efficiency by 20% by implementation of vehicle tracking units and conducting monthly driver training. 
• Establishment and management of the Copia Control Tower
• Developing and implementing standard operational processes to maintain vehicles by advocating best practices resulting in an efficiency increase of 10% by analyzing driver behavior through systemized driver tracking

DHL Supply Chain (K), February 2014 – December 2017

• Ensuring all trucks contracted by DHL and own fleet have a working tracking device, improving vehicle visibility and accountability by 100%. 
• Daily monitoring and reporting of transit schedule and routing; 
• Enhancing fleet efficiency by 20%, by managing drivers through tracking data analysis. 
• Managing to day-to-day transport supply chain operations confirming successful deliveries
• Realtime and historical truck tracking reports from GPS 

B. Comm - Marketing

Dayster University