Transport Planner

**About The Role**:
**Join the Samworth Brothers Team and become part of our dynamic family**

At Samworth Brothers, we genuinely care about our colleagues and strive to create an engaging environment that values your unique contributions. We are committed to your success and offer a range of exceptional benefits that we believe supports your life and personal aspirations:
- Enhanced pension scheme
- Private health scheme
- Employee discount scheme
- Experience annual pay reviews
- Profit related pay
- Unlock your potential through training and growth opportunities

**The Opportunity**

In this role of Transport Planner, you will report to the National Planning Manager, this key role is responsible for the safe, efficient and cost-effective execution of all planning tasks, whilst ensuring the planning team are working to the required standards, individually and as a whole.
- Responsible for running the planning function when on shift ensuring the efficient and cost-effective management of all operational activities in this area.
- Own all planning activity to achieve departmental KPIs.
- Ensure that effective communication processes are in place to promote the regular and effective communication to the team and business.
- Identify any issues and/or potential problems and opportunities and manage these through to resolution.
- Ensure all routes are covered with resource in the most cost-effective way.
- Able to operate effectively in a high-volume service driven transport operation.
- Take ownership for own and team’s performance.
- Excellent communication skills - Planning Manager / Operations Managers / Planning Team / Transport Supervisors / Warehouse Supervisors / External companies
- Experience of working within an FMCG environment.
- Able to work to time sensitive deadlines and prioritise work.
- Good numeracy, spoken and written communication skills.
- Strong IT skills (Word, Excel, Outlook, Transport Management Systems).
- Monday - Friday - however the need for flexibility to work weekends when required

We also want you to thrive in an engaging and inclusive work culture where you will have the opportunity to take on personal accountability and take pride in your work. We encourage positive communication, and the building of strong collaborative relationships is essential to every role.

**About Us**: Samworth Brothers Supply Chain provides temperature controlled distribution services to companies within the Samworth Brothers Group, as well as to many external chilled manufactures, retailers and distributors. We take pride in our family feel within our businesses and work together to make things happen. We can offer you the stability of a wider group as well as the opportunities that that offers if you wish to progress your career with us. We are family and we would like to invite you to be part of that and support our teams in delivering great products to all of our customers.

**_Samworth Brothers do not engage with unlicensed gangmasters or third parties. Samworth Brothers will NEVER ask you for money in order to provide you with employment. If you are in any doubt, please contact an official Samworth Brothers representative._