Transport Planner

Metsä Wood

Metsä Wood is one of Europe’s leading manufacturers of engineered wood products. We refine renewable Nordic wood into sustainable and high quality wood products. Our main products are Kerto® LVL, birch and spruce plywood and further processed sawn timber. Material-efficient wood products store carbon and play an important role in combatting climate change.

In 2022, our sales totalled approximately EUR 0.7 billion, and we have around 1 550 employees. We promote a culture of diversity, equality and inclusion. Metsä Wood is part of Metsä Group.

This recruitment is carried out anonymously
- We are looking for a Transport Planner
- Location: Boston
- Overview
- With focus on increasing customer satisfaction and optimising its resources, Metsä Wood UK has embarked on a wide range of initiatives and investments which include transforming its ERP & supply chain planning tools, standardising ways of working across its business areas and deeper collaboration with its stakeholders to increase product visibility and service.
- As part of this initiative a vacancy has arisen to directly collaborate with internal stakeholders as well as high-profile customers and suppliers of service.
- What do you get to do?- Daily plan and manage customer deliveries and collections in line with customer KPIs-
- Ensure vehicle utilization is maximised where possible, working with Customer Service and Operations teams to improve load fill-
- Report any stock shortage through to order desk team prior to despatch-
- Book transport requirement with nominated haulage company’s ensuring best cost / m3 is achieved-
- Monitor haulier performance against agreed booked slots reporting short falls to Site / Transport Manager-
- Monitor any additional haulage costs (e.g. demurrage / 2nd day charges) and challenge where possible-
- Support Distribution picking and loading teams with work balancing where possible-
- Support site / transport manager with delivery performance reviews-
- Address any problems or complaints that may arise quickly and amicably- Stakeholders & Operational Interfaces- Customers-
- Operations teams-
- Customer Service-
- Sales teams-
- Supply Chain-
- Finance- What are we looking for?- Numerate and analytical, comfortable with intermediate/advanced XLS.-
- Effective communicator with ability to prioritise. Strong organisational skills.-
- Comfortable within fast-paced operations; effective problem solving skills.-
- Growth & continuous improvement mindset.-
- Preferred experience of SAP ERP and related transport planning software.-
- National Logistics / Transport qualification (e.g. Transport Manager CPC) - preferred-
- 2 years+ transport planning experience-
- IT skills - MS Office including- Why work for us?
- Compelling brand and company
- Competitive package + hybrid work environment (3 days per week on site at Boston)
- Lifestyle and wellbeing benefits
- What happens next?
- Anonymous recruitment - how it works
- The personal data of internal applicants is also hidden, as explained above.