Group Head of Transport
3 weeks ago
- Job Title: Group Head of Transport & Distribution
- Job Reward: £120 – £140k Target Band, comprehensive package, 30% Bonus is realistic. Applications taken on experience and future fit
- Contract Type: Permanent
- A senior appointment to facilitate transport and logistics transformation; a strategic change initiative to enhance Group network capability
- Location: Midlands & Hybrid , multi-site logistics partner site leadership role
- Minimum of two days spent at a Midlands location is strongly preferred
- Client & Industry Sector: Supply Chain and Retail FMCG. Demonstrating outstanding growth, profits and multi-million investment in its people and infrastructure
- Scope: Up to 10 Direct reports and 50+ Indirect reports, plus multi-site third party contract management
- You can locate yourself with flexibility, work from logistics centres around London, Midlands, Hertfordshire, Staffordshire, Yorkshire etc if required.
- You will be granted the autonomy and authority to define and implement your strategic transport plan and change agenda to shape your function
- Responsible for £100m+ cost budget and up to 1,000 drivers and trailers across 10 locations
- Through your personal and team’s achievements, you will carve out your own career development path into more senior leadership roles
- Demonstrating a thorough understanding of modern transport systems and strong leadership, with the credibility and gravitas to lead and engage with a large team in a Control Tower, extending to 3PL key partner management
- Your direct reporting management team includes Operations, CI, Governance, Healp Desk and Customer Services Leaders
- Leading the integration of transport planning and operations teams to set up a Control Tower, driving improvements and insights through increased visibility, partner integration and carrier improvements, to generate ‘best in class’ transport standards
- A genuine opportunity for future fit succession planning into a Board level role
- You will drive customer satisfaction KPI’s and deliver efficiencies and cost savings
- Definition and execution of transport strategy; driving continuous improvement programmes to achieve increases in transport efficiency
- Support the building of strategic capability across the UK Transport and Logistics function, focusing on achieving £multi-million cost out savings
- Measuring the impact of delivered change projects, ensuring objectives are met and a continuous learning culture is encouraged
- Ensure a clear ‘Change Programme and Roadmap’ is in place
- A service orientated and operationally focussed logistics role
- Determine a multi-million budget to deliver expected service
- Work with Carrier Management in implementing transportation solutions, executing the plan
- Create a highly engaged, highly effective transport team; Embracing your strategic role, developing team members
- Ensuring the team have clear objectives, performance reviews, feedback, utilising modern leadership tools, to encourage and nurture top performance
- Ensuring that your Team’s processes are robust and clearly documented and reviewed to define a road map for success
- Lead transformation around people, developing an inclusive culture, identifying top talent, building team capability and succession pipelines
- Oversee all aspects of transportation operations across 10+ 3PL partner sites throughout the UK; remote line management responsibility
- Setting the strategy for Transport, driving cost down, safety and compliance
- Lead and motivate a diverse, ‘HIGH PERFORMING’ team, providing guidance, strategic direction, and support
- Monitor and analyse transport metrics to identify areas for improvement
- Develop and maintain strong working relationships with the third-party providers
- Identify cost-saving opportunities and implement strategies to achieve financial cost reduction
- Experienced in retail, FMCG and or 3PL transport operational leadership preferred
- Any background in complex, time sensitive and complex UK transport supply chains is considered. This is a senior leadership role, so your ability to create and lead high performing logistics teams is more important
- Previous experience managing large fleets is preferred, 1000+
- CPC qualified preferred or equivalent
- Ability to operate effectively across a matrix; engaging a wide range of leadership styles, being an effective influencer and influential leader
- Comfortable pushing the boundaries and challenging the perceived status quo
- Proven pedigree in re-designing and growing transport networks, ideally through Control Tower equivalent strategies
- Strong knowledge of transport regulations, contractual management and compliance
- Demonstrate excellent leadership capabilities and behaviours; an influential coaching and INCLUSIVE style
- Senior Management experience in a similar sector & role within transport, logistics and supply chain distribution
- An influential role in one of the market leaders in FMCG retail and supply chain
- Highly Competitive salary & benefits package
- Great opportunities for career progression; on a Global scale
- A professional, modern and inclusive working environment
- A very competitive Bonus and Reward structure
- Competitive pension plan
- Life Assurance
- Share options
- Comprehensive flexible benefits and employee wellbeing programme
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