Central Transport Planner

4 weeks ago


Northampton, United Kingdom Headlam Group Plc Full time

**Central Transport Planner**

**Business Name**:
Headlam Group plc

Office Based in Northampton

**Weekly Working Hours**:
40 Hours per week

**Working Pattern**:
Monday - Friday 12:00 - 20:00

**Role Details**:
To be responsible for the planning of resources and routes leading to the most effective delivery of services and maintaining excellent levels of communication with our internal customers and colleagues from across the Headlam network
- Plan daily schedules (Using Paragon routing software)
- Liaise with all sites to produce achievable transport plans on a daily basis
- Schedule work centrally using various planning systems
- Maintain regular dialogue with regional transport offices and sales offices
- Manage relationship with transport offices and sales offices to ensure allocated workload is delivered in line with agreed SLA
- Share knowledge to improve service performance
- Identify issues & provide resolutions quickly so not to impact on performance ensuring appropriate communication where necessary
- Create accurate daily management reports
- Develop KPI information for ongoing monitoring of the operations transport solution
- Run model scenarios for UK wide transport networks to identify operational improvements and new opportunities
- Support the operation with contract projects, I.T. implementation and any other projects
- Deal with all ad hoc management requests
- Embrace and live a customer service culture within the team

**Requirements**:

- Experience in a transport & planning environment
- Experience of computerised planning and scheduling systems (ideally Paragon but not essential)
- Good working knowledge of driver’s hours legislation
- CPC qualified or willing to work towards this qualification (Desireable)
- A logical and analytical approach
- Excellent organisational and interpersonal skills
- Strong Computer Skills (Microsoft Office)
- Ability to work using your own initiative
- Ability to prioritise and work to strict deadlines

*

**Benefits**:

- Company pension

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Northampton, NN4 7HS: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: One location

Application deadline: 24/03/2023
Reference ID: Central Transport Planner


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