Dispatch Specialist

3 weeks ago


Coventry, United Kingdom Cadent Gas Full time

**Dispatch Specialist**

**Contract Type**:Permanent**

**Location: Coventry, Ansty Business Park, CV7 9JU**

**Salary £44,845 - £52,758 per annum, depending on skills and experience**

**About The Role**

We have an exciting, new opportunity to join our scheduling and dispatch department as a Dispatch Specialist.

As a Dispatch Specialist you will report direct into the Dispatch Manager. Your role will entail strong leadership, management, communication and influencing/negotiating skills to build and maintain effective relationships with staff and management at all levels, both internally and across stakeholder groups. You will also be the single point of contact for the Network for all Dispatch activities, including system expertise(Click/SAP), IS relationship management and resilience lead (including BCM/cyber security).

The successful person will need to have had prior experience of maintaining Dispatch operations and be passionate in trying to continuously improve performance within the team and networks. You will also need to be comfortable with being on standby as this is a requirement for the nature of this role.

**Key Accountabilities**
- Ensuring the successful dispatch of resources for reactive and planned work and other on day decision making to keep the agreed plan on track whilst maximising the utilisation of the field force, ensuring the right resources are trained with the right equipment to enable delivery of a 24/7 operation.
- Evaluating and responding to emerging situations and supporting operations during incidents to ensure continued safety of the public.
- Managing BCM incidents impacting Dispatch systems and subsequent recovery.
- The delivery of internal and external outcomes associated with their role with specific accountability to feed back.
- Management of the delivery of the on day plan, including providing feedback on any operational resourcing and performance issues in order to maintain operational and regulatory requirements and ensuring that all activities are carried out in accordance with the relevant policies, standards and procedures.
- Understanding, communicating and championing the overall strategy for the network and ensuring customers are kept informed via the measurement of customer performance and driving the team to deliver great customer experiences.
- Leading on post day review to feedback on the plan with Scheduling Specialist - was the plan executed or was the plan handed over a ‘bad pass’.

**About You**
- Analytical or Engineering Degree or equivalent is desirable but not essential if appropriate business experience and skills can be demonstrated
- Valid current UK driving licence
- Experience and understanding of Dispatch activities.
- Prior Experience of managing teams directly and influencing across virtual teams.
- Previous experience of stakeholder and customer relationship management at all levels, both internally and externally

**What’s In It For You**

We are committed to supporting our employees to get the best out of themselves. For this role in particular we can offer:

- Funding and support towards completing relevant qualifications
- Ample opportunity for progression within the business
- Mentoring and guidance opportunities

We are also working flexibly, if this is something that you are interested in then please don’t hesitate to contact us to discuss.

**Benefits**
- We offer a host of benefits to suit your lifestyle and support your well-being. These include:_
- Annual bonus
- Pension Scheme double matched up to a total of 12% of salary (i.e., employee contributions of up to 6%, double matched by a Cadent contribution of up to 12%)
- 25 days holiday, plus statutory days, and an option to buy more
- Fantastic career development prospects with funded learning options, including support with exams, and internal and external learning and development
- Strong focus on supporting you as an individual including:
o hybrid working

o flexible working
- o strong commitments to ED&I
- o generous family provision policies
- Flexible benefits including cycle to work scheme, salary sacrifice car scheme, insurance, and healthcare packages, plus much more
- My Offers membership card - offering discounts and savings from hundreds of retailers
- 2 paid volunteering days per year
- Free gym access at the Ansty office, as well as a ‘Gympass’ scheme providing free or heavily subsidised local gym memberships

We want our employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance and are happy to discuss flexible working options with you if the role can accommodate it. Let us know about your flexibility requirements, whether that be reduced hours, remote working, flexible start/finish times, or compressed hours, and we will be more than happy to explore what’s possible for the role.

**About Us**

At Cadent we’re excited to be part of the future of UK energy We’ve got a clear roadmap that will drive our performance to the forefront of our industry



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