Assistant Logistics Manager

About noon:

noon.com is a technology leader with a simple mission: to be the best place to buy and sell things. In doing this we hope to accelerate the digital economy of the Middle East, empowering regional talent and businesses to meet the full range of consumers' online needs.

noon operates without boundaries; we are aggressively and voraciously ambitious. Starting in 2017 with noon.com, the region’s homegrown e-commerce platform and leading online shopping destination, noon is now a digital ecosystem of products and services - noon

We are creating the Middle East’s local digital champion and are looking for world-class talent to join our team.

What you’ll do:

• Strategically plan and manage logistics or internal operations
• Creating adequate team structure and managing various operational teams
• Managing the team’s efficiency and cohesion
• Supervise, coach and train workforce
• Creating an unparalleled environment for your team’s development and happiness
• Scaling the team and the processes to support the growth of the company
• Revamping processes: Challenging established processes and implementing new processes to adapt to the fast growth of Noon
• Ensuring the quality of the measurement of selected KPIs hourly, daily, weekly and monthly
• Keep track of quality, quantity, delivery times, transport costs and efficiency
• Managing day to day operations
• Direct, optimize and coordinate full order cycle
• Resolve any arising problems or complaints
• Meet cost, productivity, accuracy and timeliness targets
• Working closely with the Noon’s central team to share and implement global best practices

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Logistics or Supply Chain Management or a similar role
• Minimum 4 years of experience in E-commerce in a related field
• Strong experience in working as a business partner in delivering better decision support and enabling strategic initiatives which help to improve organization financial performance.
• Excellent analytical skills as well as strong business acumen.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Develop project & program work plan and ensure compliance with relevant
• Stakeholders.
• Recruit, lead and build a high-performance Project and Program team with ongoing performance reviews.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a multicultural environment and establish harmonious and effective working relationships both within and outside the organization.
• Promote efficient and effective logistics & supply chain management & processes.
• Analytical ability (e.g., pivot tables, lookup functions) to gather and interpret data to further develop, recommend and implement solutions

Who will excel?

We’re looking for candidates who thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic start-up environment. We’re searching for problem solvers, people who operate with a bias for action and have a deep understanding of the importance of resourcefulness over reliance.

Candor is our only default. Demanding unequivocal high standards should be non-negotiable because quality matters. We want people who are radically candid, cohorts who commit to settling for nothing but the best - in hiring, in accepting work from colleagues, and in your own work.

Ours is not an easy mission, but it is a meaningful one. Every hire must actively raise the bar of talent in the company to help us reach our vision.