Transport Planner

4 months ago


Wolverhampton, United Kingdom Great Bear Full time

Company Description

Great Bear is a leading 3rd party logistics business providing a wide range of ambient warehousing services, shared-user and dedicated transport solutions to a wide variety of customers alongside offering a flexible mix of added-value services to simplify supply chain. We operate over 7 million sq.ft. of warehousing space across 30+ locations in the UK. Our distribution network spans all corners of the country.

Our Wolverhampton site are now recruiting for a Transport Planner on a full time permanent basis.

**Salary**: £28,500 per annum

Working hours: 5 out of 7 rotating basis 9:00 -17:00 (Flexibility required)

**Job Description**:
The purpose of a Transport Planner is to oversee the day to day planning of the transport operation. A highly motivated and driven individual, you will be experienced at working in a busy transport department, able to deal with day to day challenges and provide cost effective solutions to the customer.

**Key Duties of a Transport Planner**:

- Subcontracting and planning orders out of multiple warehouse facilities and manufacturing sites across the UK.
- Planning daily workload for a fleet: vehicles based on and off site.
- Liaising with Traffic and Administration teams to ensure the highest standards of performance are maintained at all times.
- Maintaining, creating and updating spreadsheets and databases for customer reports.
- Reporting problems and dealing with issues and any queries that arise.
- Support the fleet and driver training team as and when required.
- Complete pre and post de-brief for all driver shifts.
- Deliver effective, professional and timely internal and external communications.

**Qualifications**:

- Be able to demonstrate a high level of transport planning expertise in a busy and demanding environment.
- Have excellent problem solving, analytical and organisational skills.
- Be able to make decisions under pressure, and to a tight timescale.
- Have a flexible and adaptable approach to working in order to meet the requirements of the business, particularly at peak periods during the year.
- Be able to communicate well at all levels within the business.
- Have the ability to identify and suggest improvements to benefit both the Company and our customer.
- Be a highly motivated individual able to work as part of a small friendly team, and under own initiative.
- Knowledge of SAP, BPCS and Road Runner would be advantageous.

Additional Information

As part of its Drive to make Great Bear a great place to work. We are proud to be an inclusive and diverse organisation where we are committed to employee development and recognising success for hard working performers.

Our dedicated learning and development programmes are open to every employee to give you the opportunity to shape your own future within logistics and continue to work in an environment where team culture thrives.

Our People are the driving force behind our success, which is why we offer a wide range of benefits which include:

- Competitive salary
- Competitive holiday entitlement
- Pension scheme
- Life Assurance
- Retail discounts via our benefit platform


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