Transport Planner

5 months ago

Derby, United Kingdom JD Sports Full time

**Company Overview***

JD Fashion Plc is a leading international multi-channel retailer of branded sports, fashion, and outdoor brands. Established in 1981 with a single store in the North-West of England, today JD is an industry leading retail business with over 60,000 colleagues and over 3,400 stores across a number of retail fascias in 32 markets around the world. JD is at the pinnacle of the global sports fashion industry, providing customers with a product range that remains both authentic and uniquely appealing across a highly differentiated omni-channel experience.

Our business model is split into Sports Fashion, Street & Premium Fashion, Outdoors and Gyms.

JD Sports Fashion Plc was listed on the London Stock Exchange in 1996 and has been a FTSE100 publicly quoted company since 2019. In FY21, JD Sports Fashion Plc generated revenues of £6,167.3m, underlying PBT of £324.0m and net cash of £795.4m and a market capitalisation of £7.275bn.

JD won the International Excellence award at the Drapers Awards 2021 and was named best performing share of the 2010s with revenues increasing from £770m in 2010 to £6.1bn in 2021.

**Role Purpose**

To be responsible for transport planning, producing effective delivery schedules to maximize vehicle utilization, 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
- Build a team of planning support colleagues
- 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 standardization 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
- Produce a continuous improvement roadmap for the next 3 years

**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
- Capability to manage a team and to bring the best out in all
- 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 prioritize 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 TMS - Preferable
- Knowledge of SQL & Power BI - 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.

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