Transport Planning Administrator

6 months ago


Derby, United Kingdom JD Sports Full time

Established in 1981 with a single store in the Northwest of England, the JD Group is a leading omni-channel retailer of Sports Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms with over 60,000 colleagues and over 3,400 stores across several retail fascias in over 30 markets around the world.

JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019 and continues to grow in the UK and internationally.

We want to be the leading global omnichannel retailer in the sports and outdoor industry. To be a part of this successful company and help us to achieve this you will have the desire to ingrain our strategic goals of being a people-led, innovative and customer-focused organisation which provides operational excellence whilst identifying new areas of growth as part of our day to day objectives.

**Role Purpose**

To be responsible for transport planning, producing effective delivery schedules to maximise vehicle utilisation, proactively working with carriers, DC's, hubs & internal departments to provide an overall seamless transport operation for the JD Group whilst controlling cost.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Produce loading and delivery schedules to ensure effective delivery and collection of stock &
- GNFR
- Assisting in organising all aspects of the transport operation
- Liaise with the network of hauliers to obtain backloads
- Using internal & external software to input bookings and liaise with carriers
- Route planning for full loads, groupage and pallet network loads
- Provide the communication link between customers and carriers
- Make any required changes to the current operation to help towards industry best in class
- Implement SLA's for business units across JD Sport to reduce transit time. Ensuring consistency, clarity and accuracy
- Drive standardisation across the control tower planning operation
- Identify and recommend systems that need to be introduced to future proof the department
- Project manage the on boarding of the systems including TMS roll out across the network

**Key Skills, Knowledge & Experience**
- Experience working within the transport and logistics industry
- Experience of using system-based planning tools including a TMS
- Self-learner, the ability to continually learn, develop and adapt
- Excellent communication skills - written, verbal & listening
- Able to bring about change via effective communication and practical demonstration
- Positively able to demonstrate building relationships to support business growth and objectives
- Ability to influence positively at all levels
- Ability to proactively identify opportunities for change and improvement
- Ability to maintain a level-headed approach under varying levels of pressure
- Ability to prioritise and deliver as appropriate whilst working at pace
- Competent decision making
- Good geographical knowledge
- Working experience in control tower planning across the EU and rest of the world - Preferable
- Excellent Microsoft Excel/Office skills
- Knowledge of WMS - Preferable
- Knowledge of SQL & Power BI - Preferable
- Knowledge of TMS - Preferable
- Any customs knowledge advantageous
- Shifts to cover any 5 of 7 days per week. Hours to suit business needs.
- **You will be either working Tuesday - Saturday OR Sunday - Thursday**

This role will be based at Derby at the DC. Travel may be required across the JD network.

We know our employees work tirelessly to make JD Sports the success it is today and in turn, we offer them some amazing benefits:

- Free parking
- Incremental Holiday Allowance
- Staff Discount On JD Group and other brands within the organisation
- Pension Scheme
- Personal development opportunities to learn and develop at work.

Thank you again for your time.



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