Job zoom: Logistics Manager
"I like this job for its dynamism and for the diversity of its missions".
Vincent, Logistics Manager at Logisseo
The Logistics Manager ensures the smooth running and continuous improvement of all production-related operations, including receiving, storage, order preparation and shipping. Their main responsibility is to ensure that deadlines, costs and quality objectives are met. At the same time, he or she is responsible for maintaining and developing the resources required to effectively support production activities.
The logistics manager's tasks
The logistics manager is responsible for setting up and managing the various teams, requiring constant monitoring of their workforce. As such, he or she is responsible for recruiting, training andsupervising teams dedicated to réception, à la gestion des stocks et à la préparation des commandes. He ensures that his team is well-balanced and efficient, so as to offer customers the best possible service. In this way, he constantly strives to improve the quality of the services offered by the company.
His mission also extends to the planning and supervision of production operations, involving regular assessment of their efficiency and ongoing optimization of workflows. He keeps a constant watch on costs, while respecting the allocated budget. In addition, he/she coordinates operational schedules to ensure the successful completion of each mission, and adapts them according to the nature of the assignment. In this way, he or she is able to put forward interesting proposals to customers and ensure a smooth flow throughout the process.
The logistics manager ensures that customer requests, issued to the sales department, can be deployed in production. Where necessary, he or she can suggest improvements, adapted to customer needs and the company's available resources.
The logistics manager is also skilled at identifying and resolving any day-to-day malfunctions. Indeed, one of his or her priorities is to do everything in his or her power to promote well-being in the workplace. For a logistics manager at Logisseo, an efficient and motivated team is above all a fulfilled team.
As a result, it seeks to implement appropriate and effective solutions to continually improve the quality of life at work.
The logistics manager implements all the necessary measures to ensure the quality of the services provided to customers. His central role includes guaranteeing on-time delivery, while maintaining optimum costs and quality for each customer, whose satisfaction he ensures. His aim is to maintain a good relationship with them.
The skills required to be a good logistics manager
To be a logistics manager, you need a wide range of skills to carry out your missions successfully, and you need to be able to adapt to all kinds of situations. Here are just a few of them:
- Good interpersonal skills
- Good knowledge of information systems
- Analytical skills
- Team management
- Budget and financial management
- Mastery of the supply chain and its processes
- Reactivity
- Sense of continuous improvement
What training and qualifications are required to become a logistics manager?
To become a logistics manager, you need to have completed training or obtained a diploma in logistics, supply chain and/or management. The knowledge developed during training in these sectors will undeniably be a plus, and will enable you to tackle the job with ease.
To complement the skills acquired during your course of study, it's a good idea for someone wishing to become a logistics manager to gain one or more years of experience in this field. This enables them to gain practical experience and practical knowledge - a real asset!
The CSR aspect of the logistics manager's job
To participate in the deployment of a CSR approach within the company, the logistics manager, in each of the missions that occupy his or her daily work, ensures the application and development of CSR issues.
In fact, he keeps a close eye on how these issues are taken into account in the actions he and his team carry out, in order to reduce the company's repercussions on the environment and limit the impact on people.
In particular, it works on aspects related to quality of life at work, with a focus on workstation ergonomics to limit musculoskeletal disorders among its teams.
In collaboration with the CSR manager, he/she may also be responsible for identifying and proposing new areas for extending the CSR strategy within the company.
The example of Vincent, Logistics Manager at Logisseo
Vincent joined Logisseo in 2020. Before that, he worked as a supply chain analyst for a vehicle manufacturing company abroad, so he already knew a thing or two about logistics !
To take up his post, Vincent obtained a DUT in marketing techniques, followed by a master's degree in supply chain management from a business school.
For him, being logistics manager means having a coordinating role, being a good listener and having a good analytical mind. He's like the production's conductor! Without his musicians, he can't move forward: in short, his teams are in the field, and they are the most competent to provide him with technical information on day-to-day operations, to improve services.
What does he like best about his job? The dynamism and diversity of the missions that occupy his daily life!
For Vincent, it's also very important to see each member of his team flourish at work and find meaning in what they do. He has great confidence in the tasks he delegates to them. He is also proud to see the professionalism of each and every one of them in the tasks assigned to them.
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