Regional Logistics Executive

Role overview

This position is responsible for keeping material movement uninterrupted by staying closely connected with handling agents and secondary transport partners across godowns and goodsheds in the region. The role also involves gathering market insights on transport vendors, service pricing, and common industry practices to support smoother operations, lower costs, and network improvements.

Business context

Cement is a core sector with excess supply, strong competition from multinational players, and a highly fragmented ownership structure. Because product performance is heavily influenced by power, fuel, and logistics costs, this role sits in a business area where efficiency directly affects value creation.

As the company expands capacity while operating with limited resources and higher service expectations, service quality becomes a key differentiator. The role also supports efforts to reduce dependence on scarce resources such as rail rakes, road fleets, and coastal berths by planning resource mobilization and building more self-reliant logistics options, including bulk terminals and captive berths.

Operational focus

The regional logistics setup must align with customer needs across a geography that may cover one state or multiple states. Close monitoring of actual operations at each godown, railhead, and inventory point is needed to ensure every depot order is fulfilled completely and on time. This role supports the Regional Logistic Head by tracking field activity, enabling vendor management, and freeing up the head for site visits, negotiations, performance reviews, market engagement, network evaluation, and alternate logistics development.

Key challenges

• Build and strengthen vendor relationships while ensuring vendors remain profitable through proper asset utilization.
• Help vendors adopt technology-led initiatives that improve service differentiation and align with business goals.
• Track order visibility and truck deployment visibility for each order.
• Secure the right fleet mix and adequate vehicle availability against order requirements.
• Use regional route knowledge to manage alternate destinations and route options effectively.
• Take sound decisions in changing or emergency situations while balancing company, vendor, and customer priorities.
• Monitor logistics performance in real time, including diversion, crossing, demurrage, wharfage, cut-and-torn cases, and damages, and work with stakeholders to improve efficiency.
• Address the challenge of relying on outsourced road logistics, where about 40% of the fleet is non-dedicated, by retaining capacity in lean periods and arranging additional resources during demand spikes at the best possible cost.

Accountabilities and supporting actions

Compliance with Sales & Operations Planning: Review stock ageing and ensure customer dispatches follow FIFO from railheads and godowns. Share inventory-level inputs, including days of stock and upcoming material needs, with PLH/RLH in consultation with TSM for forward planning.

Cost management: Submit waiver requests for demurrage and wharfage charges to local authorities and negotiate for maximum relief. Track logistics inefficiencies such as demurrage, wharfage, and shortages, especially at railheads. Identify alternate railheads or godowns based on total landed cost and service levels. Provide market intelligence on cluster freight movement and related trends. Maintain statutory records related to secondary transport, handling, and godown rental agreements.

Customer service levels: Collect order pattern and inventory information from godowns and railheads, estimate the quantity likely to move after discussion with the plant, and take corrective action to maintain service standards.

Railway coordination and management: Ensure the rake is placed at the most suitable platform with a focus on faster unloading and shipment safety.

Additional information

This role includes close coordination across vendors, transporters, local authorities, plant teams, and regional logistics stakeholders. It requires regular monitoring of execution, service quality, and cost levers across the network.