Transport Planner

Müller UK & Ireland is wholly owned by Unternehmensgruppe Theo Müller which employs over 31,000 people throughout Europe. In the UK, Müller develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of branded and private label dairy products made with milk from 1,300 farmers in Britain.Müller is ranked within the top 20 in The Grocer’s Top 100 list of Britain’s Biggest Brands and is picked from shelves millions of times each year. Müller UK & Ireland includes:
Müller Milk & Ingredients which aims to be Britain’s private label dairy leader and produces branded and private label fresh milk, cream, butter and ingredients products. It boasts a network of dairies and depots servicing customers throughout the country.

Müller Yogurt & Desserts which is the UK’s leading yogurt manufacturer which aims to create millions more Müller moments for its consumers. It is responsible for major brands like Müller Corner, Müllerlight, Müller Bliss, Müller Rice, FRijj and Müller Kefir Smoothie and produces chilled desserts under licence from Mondelez International. It also supplies the UK private label yogurt market from a dedicated, state of the art yogurt facility.

**Responsibilities will include but not limited to the following**:

- Ownership of the local operational transport plans and site review process to measure and track the efficiencies of the outbound routes for respective multiple operations
- Effective daily execution of plan through the AS400 system and regular tactical reviews through Ortec
- Create transparent and effective daily and weekly reporting tools to allow visibility of cost per trip
- Constant assessment and challenge on underutilised resources through operation and commercial channels
- Costing of drops and customers to support understating of delivery efficiencies
- Close working relationship with operational teams, despatch stakeholders and drivers to ensure alignment into transport plans
- Support SLM to establish clear link between planning and operational performance
- Weekly P&L reviews and attendance at site for MPR’s
- Provide site logistics managers and local operational teams with daily, weekly and monthly planning performance reports
- Support fleet team on future innovation initiatives to further generate primary efficiencies
- Link up with other planning colleagues to assess wider network opportunities and catchment area synergies

**Muller responsibilities**:

- Ensure we have robust KPI’s
- Review processes and take the lead on collaborative operational engagement to achieve the most efficient, cost effective solutions to delivery customer service requirements
- Generation of clear reports highlighting operational metric, trends, focus areas and opportunities to improve
- Utilise daily and tactical planning tools, operational understanding and relationships to generate forward thinking plans for service and cost improvement
- Ability to build effective relationships with operational colleagues to allow consistent feedback loop and refinement of plans

**Demonstratable skills, experience and knowledge within the following**:

- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in FMCG, logistics operational planning environment
- Transport background with proven track record of reducing cost base and improving service trough planning optimisation
- Experience and ability to use transport scheduling systems
- Knowledge of UK transport legislation and fleet types
- Presenting and communicating to various stakeholders within an operational environment and structure
- Organised and detail orientated
- Highly motivated
- Contact Details:_

F.A.O. UK Recruitment, Müller UK & Ireland, Shrewsbury Road, Market Drayton, Shropshire, TF9 3SQ