Manager, Transport Solution & Design

DB Schenker (Thailand) (Khlong Toei)

Bangkok, Thailand

DB Schenker is one of the world’s leading global logistics provider — we support industry and trade in the global exchange of goods through land transport, worldwide air and ocean freight, contract logistics and supply chain management. Integrated logistics resides at the world’s most important intersections, where the flow of goods creates an effective link between carriers. Our value-added services ensure the flow of goods continues seamlessly and supply chains stay lean and optimized for success. Our business holds top positions in automotive, technology, consumer goods, trade fair logistics, special transports, and special events logistics. With more than 76,100 employees worldwide, DB Schenker is one of the leading transportation and logistics providers in the world. If you’re looking for a challenge, and are ready to elevate your career, consider joining one of our many top-performing teams. We’ve been providing employees with a variety of amazing jobs in logistics and transportation for more than 150 years

About this position

The Manager, Transport Solution & Design is responsible for analyzing customer business requirements and providing technical designs, including data analysis and process design. This role involves creating solution proposals, modeling transport solutions, and ensuring smooth handover to implementation teams.

Responsibilities

• Analyze customer's business requirement. Provide technical design including data gathering & analysis, process design & commercial.
• Create solution proposal & comprehensive presentation to customer.
• Modelling to convert business metrics into transport solutions, including but not limited to network design, channel selection, routing and scheduling, warehouse layout/sizing and productivity/labor planning.
• Trucking cost analysis (including fuel usage, maintenance costs, etc.).
• Ensure smooth handover of successful proposal to implementation team.
• Manage and organize responses to customers or other members of Business Development and Sales teams in support of RFQs for distribution portion.
• Develop and maintain a Cost Model for computing trucking and distribution costs.
• Update Management on developments in nationwide distribution market on regular basis, and propose development ideas.
• Participate in joint calls and customer visits to gather information and to present and represent Schenker’s distribution capabilities and know-how.
• Support the preparation of Investment Applications for trucking related assets and resources.
• Other tasks as may be assigned by Head of Business Development.
• Maintain and follow company rules, regulations and Health, Safety and Environmental Standards.

Requirements

• Deep and wide knowledge of logistics operations, customer solutions and advanced modelling/costing techniques.
• Strong business acumen and result-focus and strong presentation skills.
• Ability to work in a dynamic environment, multi-tasking, and making appropriate assumptions with uncertain/insufficient information.
• Highly responsible, initiative, proactive and able to coordinate and motivate people and to work as a team under pressure.
• Strong logical reasoning and meticulousness is a must.
• Trucking Operations Management skills.
• Ability to analyze large amounts of data using Excel or Access or similar.
• Minimum 5 years' experience in Logistic & Supply Chain, especially transport solutions.
• Ability to present in Thai and English.
• Experience with Transport Management Systems.
• Experience with ERP.