Distribution Lead (Melbourne)

**Company Description**: **Do amazing work**

A career with Viva Energy is more than just a job. It’s a chance to join a group of people dedicated to supporting Australia’s evolving energy and convenience needs. We’re a leading retail, industrial and energy business, and we’ve been helping Australians reach their destination for more than 120 years.

Our plans for the future support Australia’s energy transition to sustainable, lower carbon energy solutions. And our recent acquisitions of Coles Express and OTR, we provide Australians with outstanding convenience.

At the heart of our plans is people power. People who want to grow and evolve with us. People with new perspectives, energy and passion to drive Viva Energy and their careers forward.

We have a great opportunity for a **Distribution Lead**within our Polymers business to manage activities and requirements with our suppliers and 3PL partners, to ensure customer needs are met within our growing market. You will coordinate the Polymers business’ supply chain activities relating to the transport, receiving, storage, repackaging and delivery of our portfolio of domestically manufactured and imported products.

You will make commercially driven decisions to optimise activities and liaise with Sales and Planning to achieve optimal results in a high paced environment. You will manage 3PL relationships and activities including storage, repacking, and distribution of all Viva polymer products across Australia, NZ and for Exports to achieve safe, reliable, and cost competitive delivery to customers. Through data and collaboration, you will drive fit for purpose operational solutions which underpin our CVP in market.

**Responsibilities & Requirements**
- Maintain and drive a safety obsessed culture with our 3PL providers
- Build relationships and manage day to day coordination of activities with 3PL’s including KPI and service level monitoring, management and reporting.
- Drive cost efficiencies through identification, development and execution of business improvement initiatives
- Manage domestic container fleet to optimise stock rotation, and the unpacking of import containers to minimise detention costs
- Manage & coordinate repacking/resizing and interstate transfers of stock to balance costs versus customer needs.
- Work with Customer Service, Sales and Suppliers for urgent delivery management and prioritisation of activities
- Ensure successful onboarding/first delivery of new customers
- Manage the export stock and interstate/NZ distribution of polymers with 3PLs
- Develop and manage internal reporting to deliver insights and identify opportunities for improvement

**Qualifications**:

- Effective time management and prioritisation of work to deliver supply chain outcomes.
- Analyse insights and data into easily understood business opportunities
- Develop relationships and influence a broad range of stakeholders internally and externally to add value to Polymers Supply Chain.
- Work to short deadlines when unplanned opportunities emerge
- Ability to engage with a variety of stakeholders to deliver valuable outcomes
- Effective presentation and communication (written and oral) skills
- Is curious about customers and processes, and open to exploring new ways of working
- Drive for Results
- Steadfastly pushes self; works with passion and a sense of urgency; seeks opportunities to improve results and processes in a proactive manner; contributes to the goals and profitability of the company
- Customer Focus:
- Anticipates and acts with the customer in mind; is dedicated to meeting and/or exceeding the expectations and requirements to deliver exceptional value; establishes and maintains effective relationships with stakeholders and continually seeks feedback and information to improve products and services
- Priority Setting
- Spends his/her time and the time of others on what's important; quickly zeros in on the critical few and puts the trivial many aside; can quickly sense what will help or hinder the accomplishment of a goal; eliminates roadblocks; creates focus.

**Experience working with or in a warehousing/3PL workplace would be an advantage but not essential.**

**Additional Information**: **About Viva Energy**

Join a team that values diversity. Viva Energy is a great place to be yourself. We believe in our people, trust in their positive intentions, and empower everyone to amplify their voice across the business. We value inclusion because that’s how we get the best outcomes.

Awarded the WGEA Employer of Choice for Gender Equality for the past five years highlights that we are driven by our people and continuing our focus on making Viva Energy reflect the ever-changing face of Australia.

We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and encourage and support diversity in our traditional and non-traditional roles.

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