Regional Director

Responsibilities

SEA Office Management

• Lead and drive the growth and strategic development of company's regional offices, based on company's Integrated logistics business, business needs and market trends
• Initiate and lead projects regarding regional development and change management
• Communicate and ensure understanding of the strategic plans including objectives
• Manage relationships with all stakeholders, including regional business partners, customers, suppliers and agents

Business Planning and Development

• Create and build a profitable and customer-focused regional office with a strong management team fully capable of providing good leadership
• Build and expand current local and regional client portfolio
• Explore and build new client portfolio, locally and regionally
• Initiate and develop business opportunities within new or existing markets
• Identify potential locations for market opportunities that produce continued growth.
• Evaluate new office set up and develop strategies to penetrate in the country
• Ensure regional offices' align to corporate strategies in terms of focus on verticals, branding and marketing materials compliance, media strategies
• Identify specific local needs and ensure adaptation of regional standards to local needs

Performance Management

• Drive and ensure global offices achieve their Key Performance Indicators (KPI) on revenue, service quality and profit
• Ensure the implementation of detailed business improvement plans to meet or exceed country profit targets
• Conduct regular performance reviews of global offices and ensure appropriate corrective actions
• Manage an effective and balanced portfolio of business and markets to achieve business growth

People and Relationship Management

• Support and implement programmes and activities for efficient people management, with the global HR policies
• Lead and develop the global teams to ensure the required people and organizational capability is in place
• Ensure there is a culture of employee feedback and engagement
• Develop and build a culture of continual personal development

Compliance and Internal Policies

• Ensure global offices' compliance with company's policies
• Ensure operations are conducted in accordance with all legal requirements and external regulations
• Collaborate with company's legal team to minimize legal exposure

Requirements

• Minimum Diploma in logistics field or similar
• Minimum 10 years of commercial and operational experience in Logistics, with 6 years of experience in a regional role
• Possess a strong mix of operational logistics and regional experience, coupled with a proven track record in driving large scale, regional, continuous improvement/operational excellence projects
• Worked within a matrix organization
• Frequent overseas travelling is required