Transportation Manager – (Dubai) – Abdul Latif Jameel Enterprises
Company: Abdul Latif Jameel Logistics
ALJ Logistics operates within Abdul Latif Jameel’s transportation business, focusing on logistics operations and commercial services. Its activities include freight forwarding, transportation, warehousing, customs coordination, and cross-border logistics.
The business focuses on operational efficiency, service quality, regulatory compliance, and strengthening customer and strategic partner relationships across the UAE and regional trade lanes.
Role Purpose:
Manage transportation operations in the UAE, ensuring safe, compliant, cost-effective, and reliable fleet and subcontracted transport services supporting gateway, freight forwarding, warehousing, and customer requirements.
Key Activities:
- Plan and control transportation capacity, routes, dispatching, driver allocation, and delivery execution across the UAE.
- Manage owned fleet and subcontracted carriers, including service levels, rates, permits, documentation, and performance. Provide timely reports and escalate capacity, safety, compliance, cost, and service risks.
- Ensure compliance with UAE federal and emirate-level transport, road, safety, vehicle, and driver requirements. Maintain effective relationships with transport authorities, fleet providers, workshops, and subcontractors.
- Control fleet utilization, fuel, tolls, maintenance, idle time, empty kilometers, claims, fines, and transport cost.
- Coordinate cross-border transportation and documentation with KSA operations, customs brokers, and regional partners. Lead incident management, service recovery, and corrective actions while developing supervisors, dispatchers, and drivers. Use transport management systems, telematics, route optimization, and driver data to improve efficiency and control.
Job Details
| Posted Date: | 2026-10-11 |
| Job Location: | United Arab Emirates – Dubai |
| Job Role: | Logistics and Transportation |
| Company Industry: | Accounting |
Preferred Candidate
| Career Level: | Management |
| Degree: | Bachelor’s degree |