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
Transport Planning Coordinator (Ops)
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
Transport Manager,
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
Transport Expeditor
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
