Fleet-Tyre Availability and Casing Recovery Leader — Commercial Transport

The mandate

National inventory is adequate in aggregate, yet fleet depots lack the correct size, load rating and approved pattern when roadside failures occur. Emergency transfers move tyres without demand ownership, while removed casings disappear between mobile fitters, depots and retreaders, weakening credit recovery and product-quality evidence. Two mining customers have issued cure notices after vehicles waited beside remote routes despite reported service stock nearby.

The interim must start within three weeks for eleven months, controlling the network through inventory rebalance, winter linehaul demand and renegotiation of key fleet service levels. The first thirty days will establish usable-stock and casing truth by depot and customer. Permanent recruitment begins in month six; the successor leads two fleet peaks and an unannounced remote-response failure during a six-week handover.

Transfer requires demand segmentation by vehicle and route, approved fitment alternatives, deployment stock, emergency allocation, depot replenishment, mobile-van custody, removed-casing identity, retread disposition, customer credit, quality escalation and service-cost truth. Completion is proven when the successor restores an immobilised fleet unit during a regional stockout and closes the associated casing and customer evidence without interim intervention.

The leader may reserve scarce tyres for critical contracts, move stock among depots, change authorised replenishment frequency, suspend uncontrolled van stock, replace regional recovery leads, direct approved emergency transport and release R620 million of recovery spend. Product approval, fitment safety, warranty outcome, customer contract amendment, supplier appointment, fleet maintenance policy and retread technical disposition remain with qualified and executive owners.

Manufacturing planning, tyre design, fleet vehicle maintenance, sales expansion, long-term warehouse property, enterprise-system replacement and product-recall command are outside scope. The interim must not fit unapproved alternatives, conceal aged stock, use customer-owned casings as free inventory, backdate collection evidence, override technician refusal or strip one safety-critical fleet to improve another account’s reported service.

Why this seat is open

The former service-logistics director was removed after cure notices revealed that dashboard fill rate counted incompatible stock and excluded missing casings. Temporary end-to-end authority is needed to restore fleet trust while the company recruits a permanent operator able to own both availability and returnable-asset discipline.

What you will own

• Rebuild usable tyre availability by depot, customer fleet, vehicle class, axle position, size, load rating, pattern approval, age and physical condition.
• Segment deployment stock around route criticality, recovery lead time, contractual uptime and authorised substitution rather than historic depot entitlement.
• Control mobile-van issue, roadside fitment, removed-casing identification, secure collection, retread receipt, disposition, customer credit and residual variance.
• Rebalance stock through scheduled milk runs and controlled emergency transfer while preventing serial moves that conceal structural demand error.
• Establish customer-event command joining breakdown location, technician safety, suitable stock, transport, arrival clock, fitment outcome and communication.
• Exercise five failures involving remote route, wrong specification, depot outage, missing casing, retreader rejection and competing critical fleets.
• Transfer authority after the successor controls two demand peaks and independently resolves a compound roadside and casing-custody failure.

Candidate qualifications

• Held executive authority for commercial tyre distribution, heavy-vehicle parts logistics or a comparable uptime-led field-service network.
• Managed specification-sensitive inventory across warehouses, service depots, mobile vans, technicians and remote customer operations.
• Recovered returnable casing, core or repairable-asset custody through identity, physical count, disposition and customer-credit evidence.
• Balanced safety-critical customer allocation with network economics without authorising unapproved fitment or hiding incompatible stock.
• Worked credibly with mining, linehaul and public-transport fleets, tyre makers, retreaders, technicians and roadside carriers.
• Handed national service-logistics recovery to permanent leadership through live seasonal demand and deliberately degraded remote response.

Non-negotiables

• Can reside in Johannesburg, visit twelve depots and support round-the-clock fleet-event escalation for eleven months.
• Direct commercial-fleet tyre, parts or comparable specification-sensitive service-logistics command is required.
• Will disclose fleet customers, manufacturers, retreaders, depots, transporters, fitment firms and insurance interests.
• Will not approve unsafe substitutions, overrule technicians, conceal aged stock, misappropriate casings or decide warranty claims.

1. 49 words maximum. Describe a service-stock metric that hid specification mismatch and customer downtime.
2. 49 words maximum. How did you recover custody and value from missing returnable casings or cores?
3. 49 words maximum. State your Johannesburg availability and largest uptime-led parts network commanded.