Transport Planner

2 days ago


Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom John Lewis & Partners Full time

The Transport Distribution Planner is a key support role managing the outbound planning of vehicles and volumes of stock from our John Lewis National Distribution Centres. Effective relationships and basic negotiating skills will be developed and maintained with Transport Partners and National Distribution Operational Teams. High levels of communication via Email and telephone will be required, so the ability to communicate effectively with a large number of stakeholders is essential. Contributions to projects involving scheduling and distribution
Material reduction in the cost of distribution to the Partnership as a whole
Contract type - This position is a Permanent contract
Working pattern - 5 week rota 2 weeks Mon-Fri 6am - 2pm, Tues-Sat 6am-2pm, Mon-Fri 10am - 6pm, Mon-Fri 12pm - 8pm
To produce and maintain a strategic and operational daily transport schedule that supports the budget and ensures all service level agreements are maintained.
To plan for deliveries across the National Distribution Centres to all JLP Branches, Customer Delivery Hubs, Waitrose Stores and Third Party Warehouses which incorporates backhaul collections and stock moves where applicable.
To produce daily reports against the schedule that are accurate, practical, and legal and aim to minimise costs of distribution using the available scheduling software tool.
To co-ordinate and communicate the transport schedule with the National Distribution Centre’s, Customer Delivery Hubs, selling Branches and Third Party Warehousing.
Transport Operations, Branches, CDHs, DCs and other departments.
Good working knowledge of IT systems - Microsoft and Google
Paragon software experience
Just to confirm that interviews for this position will be held in January 2026 **
We’re the largest employee owned business in the UK and home of our cherished brands, John Lewis and Waitrose. We’re ruthlessly focused on being brilliant at retail. Never Knowingly Undersold on price, quality and service in John Lewis and passionately serving food-lovers in Waitrose.
It’s important to note that some of our roles are subject to pre-employment vetting (which may include DBS checks for successful candidates). Any DBS checks required will be carried out by a third-party registered body and financial probity checks may also be required for some of our roles.
If you require a reasonable adjustment due to a disability which means you may need longer to complete your application please contact us as soon as possible.
We want all of our Partners to have a good work-life balance and we support flexible working. This might mean flexible or compressed hours, job sharing or shorter hour contracts, where possible.


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