Transport Planner

2 weeks ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom The Recruitment Group Full time

**Transport Planner (Movement Planner)** - Ongoing Temp minimum 4 weeks to Start ASAP

**Salary**: £11.50ph

Location: Birmingham Central (B2)

Hours of Work: 40 Hours per week, Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 6:00pm

We are looking for a smart and curious Movement Planner keen for a new challenge to join our client’s expanding operations team in Birmingham City Centre. You will be responsible for ensuring that the company’s growing number of drivers are fully productive & delivering great service. You will also need to use your knowledge & ability to identify opportunities for transporter agent partners to move vehicles in bulk. Linking up single-leg jobs is therefore critical to the company’s success.

**Duties**:

- Pre-planning the days of full-time contracted drivers (40% of your week)
- Re-planning and updating plans of contracted drivers (10%)
- Allocating high-profile work for key customers to 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 software system
- Previous experience in a similar role is essential
- Experience of planning jobs for drivers and/or transport agents and maximising their productivity, or at least some route planning experience
- Highly computer literate and comfortable learning new IT systems. Client are a technology-led company, and we work exclusively on software and online platforms
- Desire to embrace change in the logistics industry. Company do not want to do things the same way as everyone else in the market
- Proven attention-to-detail. It is a fast-moving environment, and you'll need to be able to juggle multiple priorities successfully
- Any relevant further qualifications (e.g., CPC)

**Job Types**: Full-time, Temporary contract

**Salary**: £11.50 per hour

**Benefits**:

- Company pension

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person



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