Transport Planner

3 days ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Search Consultancy Full time

My Client an end to end movement solution business, are looking for an enthusiastic and motivated Transport Planner to join their Operations team in Birmingham. You will be responsible for ensuring that their growing number of full-time contracted driversare fully productive and delivering great service to their blue-chip customers.

Key Responsibilities
- Pre-planning the days of their full-time contracted drivers (40% of your week)
- Re-planning and updating plans of our contracted drivers (10%)
- Allocating high-profile work for key customers to their existing transporter agent network, and ensuring the agents perform the work as planned (30%)
- Grouping jobs together and identifying opportunities for transporter agents to move multiple vehicles in one job lot where possible (10%)
- Using this experience to feed back into the Operations Director, identifying and mapping out opportunities (10%) to:

- Improve their software system
- Design their own bespoke planning tools
- Maximise backload opportunities

What Skills Are Required?
- Experience of planning jobs for drivers and/or transport agents and maximising their productivity, or at least some route planning experience.
- Excellent communication skills are essential as you will spend a large amount of time on the phone with suppliers.
- Ability to collaborate with your internal team effectively.


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