Logistics Planner

5 months ago


Leicester, United Kingdom Aptean Full time

Overview:
Logistics Planner

Location: Enderby, UK

Our Mission is to provide our clients with the most innovative market leading technology led transport solutions to radically reduce cost, provide service excellence and a platform for sustainable continuous improvement.

**About the role**:
Responsible for the transport planning process around the customers standing operating procedure (SOP) and manage the daily compliance and performance of the carriers.
- Build relationships with key stakeholders internally and externally to ensure we provide excellent service
- Managing loads through entire process making adjustments and changes as needed and escalating non-conformance
- Create plans and make bookings for returns and agreed collections including cost implications.
- Ensure loads are optimised to full capacity, assigning loads and liaising with carriers.
- Manage cost adjustments and ensure processes followed.
- Manage the process and organisation for special transport ensuring cost implications are fully investigated and agreed
- Ensuring data is accurate and reporting of inaccuracies and costs. Ensure any inaccuracies in data quality are reported and resolved.
- Monitor costs and invoice quality ensuring issues are rectified appropriately.
- Generating and managing Fleet plans
- Monitoring carrier adherence to invoicing and planning process and escalating issues as required to carrier management.
- Reporting, administering and resolving non-compliance issues on a daily basis
- Ensuring that the service provided is in line with the customer SOP and any deviance is reported
- Achieving all service level agreement targets and KPIs for the contract
- Generate accurate operational reports on a weekly and monthly basis
- Reporting fluctuations in volume or profile change contrary to forecast and escalating the findings to line manager.

**About you**:

- Fluency in English and European languages, German, French, Polish, Dutch or Spanish (required)
- Experience of working in a planning function within logistics or a similar field
- Able to work under own initiative and self-motivated
- Experienced in working in a face paced environment and able to prioritise tasks
- Ability to form relationships with key stakeholders internally and externally
- Ability to instil feeling of ease, integrity and trust with the client
- Excellent IT Skills
- Analytical and problem solving skills
- Good presentation, communication and Interpersonal skills

**What’s in it for you?**

We are a fast growing yet established global software company. As an employer, we can offer you growth and development opportunities to cement your career. Alongside this, we offer a welcoming and diverse team and culture, made up of talented individuals all working in collaboration

**About Aptean**

Aptean is changing. Our ERP solutions are transforming a huge range of global businesses, from food producers to manufacturers. In a world of generic enterprise software, we provide targeted solutions that bring together the very best technology and drive greater results. With over 3,600 employees, 50 different products and a global client base, there’s no better time to advance your career at Aptean.

If you share our mindset, you can share in our success. To find out more about joining Aptean, get in touch today.

Learn from our differences. Celebrate our diversity. Grow and succeed together.



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