Transportation Operation Assistant Manager

Grab Holdings · Jakarta, Indonesia

About the role

Team

Business Strategy

Location

Jakarta, Indonesia

Job Type

Full-time

The role at a glance

Get to Know the Team

GrabMart is Grab's on-demand daily essentials and grocery delivery service. We bring products from multiple stores to our customers' doorsteps. As part of Grab's ecosystem, we focus on speed, convenience, and reliability for millions of customers across Indonesia.

Get to Know the Role

You will lead middle-mile transportation operations across GrabMart Indonesia, ensuring reliable, efficient, and cost-effective movement of inventory between suppliers, warehouses, dark stores. Your primary goal is to maintain high service levels, fleet and carrier productivity, shipment visibility, and safe execution while improving network performance. This role is critical for scaling GrabMart in Indonesia.

You will report to the Manager. You will based onsite. You may be require regular travel to operating sites, hubs, and partner facilities.

The Critical Tasks You Will Perform

You will manage and improve end-to-end middle-mile movements, including linehaul, inter-hub transfers, replenishment routes, cross-docking, and scheduled store deliveries.

You will manage daily transport execution: route planning, dispatch, vehicle and capacity allocation, cut-off adherence, delivery tracking, exception management, and proof-of-delivery reconciliation.

You will manage third-party logistics partners, transport vendors, and drivers against agreed service, cost, safety, and compliance standards; lead performance reviews and corrective actions.

You will define and monitor key operational metrics such as on-time departure and arrival, fill rate, utilization, cost per trip, shipment accuracy, damages, cancellations, and failed deliveries, using root-cause analysis to drive improvements.

You will build operating standards, SOPs, control-tower routines, and escalation mechanisms that improve shipment visibility and protect product quality across the network.

You will partner closely with warehouse, inventory, commercial, finance teams to align demand, capacity, schedules, and peak plans.

You will lead incident and contingency management for delays, capacity shortfalls, weather or road disruptions, damages, and other operational risks, ensuring communication and recovery plans.

You will coach operations teams and vendor supervisors, promote a safety culture, and implement-improvement projects across middle-mile operations.

Skills you need

What Essential Skills You Will Need

5+ years of experience in middle-mile, transportation, logistics, distribution, or supply chain operations within e-commerce, retail, FMCG, or a related sector.

Proven expertise managing end-to-end transport execution, including linehaul or inter-hub transfers, route planning, dispatch, carrier management, and delivery exceptions.

Demonstrated experience managing 3PLs or transport vendors, operational requirements, and driving partner performance through structured reviews and action plans.

Experience with transport management systems (TMS), fleet or dispatch tools, GPS tracking, warehouse systems, and data dashboards.

Strong stakeholder-management, with the ability to coordinate across warehouses, stores, carriers, and regional teams.

Improve cost analysis logistics and optimization routing method.

Fluency in Bahasa Indonesia and English.

Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Engineering, Business, or a related field.

What we offer

About Grab and Our Workplace

Grab is Southeast Asia's leading superapp. From getting your favourite meals delivered to helping you manage your finances and getting around town hassle-free, we've got your back with everything. In Grab, purpose gives us joy and habits build excellence, while harnessing the power of Technology and AI to deliver the mission of driving Southeast Asia forward by economically empowering everyone, with heart, hunger, honour, and humility.

Life at Grab

Life at Grab

We care about your well-being at Grab, here are some of the global benefits we offer:

We have your back with Term Life Insurance and comprehensive Medical Insurance.

With GrabFlex, create a benefits package that suits your needs and aspirations.

Celebrate moments that matter in life with loved ones through Parental and Birthday leave , and give back to your communities through Love-all-Serve-all (LASA) volunteering leave

We have a confidential Grabber Assistance Programme to guide and uplift you and your loved ones through life's challenges.

Balancing personal commitments and life's demands are made easier with our FlexWork arrangements such as differentiated hours

What We Stand For At Grab

We are committed to building an inclusive and equitable workplace that provides equal opportunity for Grabbers to grow and perform at their best. We consider all candidates fairly and equally regardless of nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, age, gender, family commitments, physical and mental impairments or disabilities, and other attributes that make them unique.

What’s it like to work at Grab?

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Meet the Business Strategy team

Our business strategy teams are here to break down complex issues and drive data-led decision-making within Grab. Work with teams across the business, diving into data analysis and crafting success plans to build our superapp.

Everyone here at Grab is so open – problems might arise, but our sole focus is always to find the solution. We also get to meet new friends all the time at Grab. Whatever fun activities you would usually do with friends, we get to do them here together.

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Titaree Audomkittanasarn Strategy Manager, Merchants and Innovation

My team consists of people with different personalities and backgrounds, and we cherish our differences. We also have different skill sets which complement each other.

Ryan Joshua Pelealu Head, Digital Business and S&P – Jabo Territory

At Grab, people are very kind, very open, very smart, and encourage everyone to generate new ideas. If the idea is acceptable and justifiable, then we have a very open path for sharing.

Rizky Ardian Hidayat Head, Business and Growth Jabodetabek

The Application Process

What can you expect when you apply for a role at Grab? Here’s what our hiring process looks like.

Step 1: Apply.

We have a range of open roles from Marketing to Engineering and everything in between. Find the one that’s best for you and show us why you’re our next teammate.

Step 2: Getting to know you.

Next, you’ll have a video or phone interview with one of our recruiters to chat about you, the role, and your past work experiences.

Step 3: Testing, testing… 123.

Some roles might require assessments and/or a technical competency interview. For other roles, there might be an additional interview – speak with your recruiter for application details.

Step 4: Is it a culture match?

Finally, we’ll find out how we fit together, if your career vision aligns with our mission, how you embody the 4 H's, and your working style and personality.

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