Transport Planner

**Job Summary**:

- Position: Transport Planner
- Location: Either Portbury (BS20 7XL), Cold Meece (ST15 0GR) or Thurleigh (MK44 2YP)
- Hours: Full time - Monday - Friday, with some weekend work if required
- £29,750 per annum

We're seeking a motivated and experienced individual to join Cazoo as a Logistics Planner, at the very beginning of our journey, building the UK's best car-buying experience.

Working in a dynamic and fast-paced team reporting into the Planning Manager you'll have the responsibility for ensuring that our vehicle deliveries and collections are optimal, You'll have access to the technology and tools that you need including leading logistics systems which you'll be familiar with using effectively to drive optimal efficiency and experience.

The right mindset and cultural fit are critical in our consumer-obsessed, entrepreneurial, data-driven and collaborative start-up, with a huge ambition to transform automotive retailing in the UK.

**What you'll be doing**:

- Responsible for the short, medium and long term planning cycles which will involve using estimated sales figures, predicting based on known trends where these are likely to fall regionally and ensure we have enough resource deployed in the right places to meet our Customers aspirations.
- Understanding trends, in particular regional trends in sales volume will be crucial to forecasting resourcing needs and building our hub infrastructure in the right place, so that we can better service our Customers whilst at the same time being as efficient as possible with our resources.
- Reviewing each regional hubs daily plan to ensure that it is optimised and then handing it over to the Delivery Co-ordinators to implement and manage.
- We will constantly be looking to refine and improve our delivery performance through analysis of delivery journeys and how they can be turned into more precise delivery slots for customers to choose.

**What you need**:

- Experienced planner of multiple resource types across multiple locations.
- Experience of home deliveries of high value items and slot bookings
- Good communication skills.
- Problem solver, likes a challenge.
- Experience of operating in highly customer centric businesses.
- Experience of working in a dynamic and changing environment.
- Experience of monitoring and managing to strict SLA's.
- The right mindset and cultural fit are critical in our consumer obsessed, entrepreneurial, data driven and collaborative start-up, with a huge ambition to transform automotive retailing in the UK.

**Further info**:
We are an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity and inclusivity. We do not discriminate on the basis of gender, race, age, sexual orientation, colour, religion, national origin, disability status or marital status.