Branch Manager - Land Freight

Join our team as Branch Manager!

We are currently seeking a Branch Manager to join our Dublin Land Freight team, as a Branch Manager you will oversee the Dublin branch's operations to ensure the attainment of business and financial goals while delivering exceptional customer service. Your role includes maintaining the highest standards of safety, quality, and cost efficiency.

Location: Santry, Dublin

Hours: 09.00 - 17.30

What you will be doing?

• Oversee P&L, deliver budget targets, and manage contract budgets.
• Provide technical leadership to resolve operational issues and ensure compliance with quality, regulatory, customs, and brokerage procedures.
• Set and achieve clear goals and objectives for branch activities while retaining and growing the customer base.
• Build strategic relationships with product management and overseas offices to meet customer service needs.
• Develop and implement a branch strategic plan, including customer KPIs and SLAs.
• Conduct regular site meetings, visit customers, and promptly address queries and complaints.
• Lead and manage staff to achieve performance and customer service goals.
• Ensure staff development, retention, and timely completion of appraisals.
• Foster a culture of health, safety, and continuous improvement, and handle other management tasks as needed.

About you

• Possess a comprehensive background in the freight forwarding industry, bringing years of relevant experience that contribute to a deep understanding of operational dynamics and market trends.
• Demonstrated expertise in leading and managing teams, fostering a collaborative and high-performance work environment that drives productivity and employee satisfaction.
• Highly attuned to customer needs, with the ability to thoroughly understand and anticipate customer requirements to ensure that operational solutions not only meet but exceed their expectations.
• Proven track record of managing operations in a dynamic and fast-paced distribution environment, adept at handling the pressures and challenges of rapid turnover and high-volume logistics.
• Skilled in financial oversight and budgetary control, with a strong focus on managing key performance indicators (KPIs) to drive efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and continuous improvement in operational processes.

What we offer

• Excellent salary and bonus structure.
• Car allowance or company car.
• Exciting career paths and development opportunities.
• 25 days of annual leave and a day off for your birthday.
• Pension scheme with up to 5% employer contributions.
• Private healthcare coverage.

Next Steps

Interested in joining our dynamic team? Apply now by following the links and attaching your CV as soon as possible. Please note that we may begin reviewing applications before the job advert expires.

At DB Schenker, we celebrate the diversity of our workforce and are committed to further enhancing it. We warmly welcome applications from individuals of all genders, ages, abilities, nationalities, religions, and sexual orientations.

Please be aware that candidates will undergo necessary right-to-work checks for the UK/Ireland, a 5-year referencing process, and a criminal records check.

Professional Development
We’re strong believers in continual training and development for our people. After all, your success is our success.

Work-life Balance
Our vacation and leave policies reflect our belief in proper work-life balance.

Health Insurance
Schenker Ireland offers all employees a contribution to our private health insurance scheme.

Pension Contributions
Both employer and employee contribute to each person's pension

Bike to Work Scheme
All employees can avail of the Bike to Work Scheme

At DB Schenker, you are part of a global logistics network that connects the world. A network that allows you to shape your career by encouraging you to contribute and truly make a difference. With more than 76,000 colleagues worldwide, we welcome diversity and thrive on individual backgrounds, perspectives and skills. Together as one team, we are Here to move.

Schenker Ireland Ltd. is an equal opportunities employer.