Senior Transport Planner

7 days ago


Minworth, Warwickshire, United Kingdom Great Bear Full time
Job Title: Senior Transport Planner

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Transport Planner to join our team at Great Bear. As a Senior Transport Planner, you will be responsible for managing and overseeing the day-to-day transport operation, ensuring that service levels are achieved and maintained.

The ideal candidate will have significant transport experience within a FMCG environment, with a proven knowledge of drivers' hours and other relevant legislation. You will be responsible for optimising resource and adherence to WTD and drivers' hours legislation, planning driver and vehicle resource to achieve delivery and collection times, and creating an effective transport plan to achieve on-time delivery and collection performance expectations.

Key responsibilities include:

  • Optimising resource and adherence to WTD and drivers' hours legislation.
  • Planning driver and vehicle resource to achieve delivery and collection times.
  • Creating an effective transport plan to achieve on-time delivery and collection performance expectations.
  • Effectively communicating with the Planning Team and other depots.
  • Providing 24/7 communication transport link with customer services and sales order processing.
  • Monitoring retailer arrival and departure times, ensuring deliveries are made within the specified windows.
  • Finding the best fit solution for customer collections, adhering to collection times.
  • Providing the Admin Team with schedules to maintain and achieve KPI's.
  • Arranging deliveries using nominated contractors for special instruction deliveries.
  • Communicating any potential failures or changes to the original plan.
  • Ensuring all accidents, incidents and near misses are logged and reported.
  • Liaising with and planning Drivers in for meetings and courses as required.
  • Managing vehicle cleanliness to ensure that the company's corporate image is maintained at all times.

As a Senior Transport Planner, you will possess the following skills, experiences and qualifications:

  • Be able to demonstrate a high level of transport expertise in a busy and demanding environment.
  • Strong planning and organisational skills, with a high level of numeracy.
  • Negotiating skills with the ability to influence and steer.
  • Flexible and methodical approach to work and training.
  • Strong communication skills in order to deliver accurate information.
  • The ability to work efficiently and accurately under pressure.
  • Consumer orientated and customer service driven.
  • Be professional, approachable and helpful to ensure the smooth running of the general operation.
  • Have proven knowledge of Road Transport Directive and current drivers' hours.
  • Have significant experience in FMCG environment.
  • Knowledge of Paragon and Road Runner systems would be advantageous.

As part of our drive to make Great Bear a great place to work, we are proud to be an inclusive and diverse organisation where we are committed to employee development and recognising success for hard working performers. Our dedicated learning and development programmes are open to every employee to give you the opportunity to shape your own future within logistics and continue to work in an environment where team culture thrives.

We offer a wide range of benefits, including:

  • Annual Leave – Competitive holiday entitlement.
  • Pension scheme – We want colleagues to enjoy a comfortable retirement so we offer a great contribution of 4% employee and 4% employer.
  • Life Assurance - x2 your annual salary.
  • Wellness – Via our Employee Assistance Programme we offer immediate access to a confidential telephone counselling and legal information service that operates 24 hours a days, 365 days a year.
  • Eye Care Vouchers – We can provide you with substantial savings with free eye tests and discounts on prescription glasses.
  • Reward & Recognition – We recognise that employees have gone the extra mile via Employee of the Month and Year, special recognition and long service awards.
  • Everyday discounts - Via our benefit platform you will have access to over 50 retailer discounts for everyday savings


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