Branch Operations Manager - Melbourne
- Deliver results for one of Australia’s leading Transport company’s
- Collaborative and inclusive work environment that values your ideas and contributions
- Discounts with hundreds of retailers at over 9,000 locations across Australia
The Opportunity
Do you thrive in a dynamic and fast-paced environment? If so, we want YOU to lead our team at Centurion Transport, Melbourne!
This exciting new role will report to the Regional Manager and aim to lead the execution of Centurion’s Melbourne Depot on a full-time basis. We are currently looking for a strong and motivated Manager to provide experience, knowledge, direction and guidance to the branch operation to achieve safe, cost efficient and reliable services.
Culture and Benefits
- Australia’s largest privately owned Transport Company
- Attractive team benefits, stability, and exciting national growth opportunities
- RIPPA values-driven company with a serious safety culture
- Career development with extraordinary opportunities on a national scale
- Employee Wellness Programs where employee health and wellbeing are put first
- Fast growing organisation, excellent training, progression, and support
Tasks & Responsibilities
- Oversee all operations in Melbourne and strategically plan to provide efficient and full utilisation across staff and assets to support all client base
- Setting up a new operation, and guiding a new team.
- Monitor customer expectations and satisfaction levels and address any issues as they arise
- Pursue and receive enquiries and transport requests from customers and provide quotations within required timeframes
- Ensure all daily tasks are completed such as but not limited to TMS reports, trip allocation, FMS, data entry
- Establish and manage relationships with business partners, key customers, potential customers, suppliers and sub-contractors
- Ensure decisions are made with strong acumen and in line with budgetary guidelines and ensuring solid results through P/L
- Demonstrate an ongoing commitment to safety, safety leadership and provide a safe working environment
Skills & Experience
- Significant experience managing a large number of employees
- Sound knowledge of required road networks, locations, COR, load restraint, statutory and regulatory requirements
- The ability to think strategically, analytically and outside of the box
- Suitable computer skills and familiarity with Microsoft Suite
- Proven planning and project management skills
- Advanced financial and budgeting skills
Who is Centurion?
Centurion is an Australian company in its fifth decade of operation, with a history of involvement in many modern infrastructure projects.
Since being founded in 1971, Centurion has developed into a full logistics solutions provider delivering a comprehensive range of distribution, warehousing, and project services. Centurion’s extensive transport fleet of over 2,000 vehicles and specialised equipment coupled with an unsurpassed branch network in key centres across Western Australia, the Northern Territory, South Australia, and Queensland ensures a flexible and reliable supply chain solution.
Centurion offers a broad range of logistics services including full end-to-end solutions, lead logistics and off-site receipting for the energy and resource sectors, general freight, warehousing, refrigerated services, retail distribution, logistics support, over-dimensional transport, heavy haulage, specialised projects and time critical services.
Ready to take on a new challenge?
If you feel you have the experience, ability, and skills to take the next step with your career within Centurion, we want to hear from you. Click ‘Apply for this Job’ now