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Transport Planner

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Wigan, United Kingdom Great Bear Full time

**Company Description**
Following years of accelerated growth Culina Group is now a £2.2billion+ turnover business, employing over 22,000 staff, with a fleet of more than 5,000 vehicles. Culina Group operates from over 100+ depots across the UK and Ireland, serving more than 1,000 clients over its framework of chilled, ambient, contract packaging solutions and fresh and baked goods.

Company Overview

**Great Bear** (Part of the Culina Group) provides distribution services to FMCG clients. Customer centric service focus is delivered through a site-level empowered culture.

At Culina we have a winning culture, we believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thriveA place where you're valued, challenged, and inspired

**Shift Pattern: Monday - Friday Days 09:00 - 17:00**

**Salary: Between £31,000 - £33,000 DOE**

We are currently seeking a Transport Planner to join our Transport team at our Wigan site. As a Transport Planner you will be responsible for overseeing the day to day planning of the transport operation, through the efficient planning of the transport operation. A highly motivated and driven individual, you will be experienced at working in a busy transport department, able to deal with day to day challenges and provide cost effective solutions to the customer.

**Job responsibilities of a Transport Planner include**:

- Load planning and liasing with customer factory production to efficiently build loads
- Planning daily workload for a fleet: vehicles based on site and Outbased vehicles.
- Liaising with Traffic and Administration teams to ensure the highest standards of performance are maintained at all times.
- Maintaining, creating and updating spreadsheets and databases for customer reports.
- Reporting problems and dealing with issues and any queries that arise

**Qualifications**
As a Transport Planner you will possess the following skill, experiences and qualifications:

- Be able to demonstrate a high level of transport planning expertise in a busy and demanding environment.
- Have excellent problem solving, analytical and organisational skills.
- Be able to make decisions under pressure, and to a tight timescale.
- Have a flexible and adaptable approach to working in order to meet the requirements of the business, particularly at peak periods during the year.
- Be able to communicate well at all levels within the business.
- Have the ability to identify and suggest improvements to benefit both the Company and our customer.
- Be a highly motivated individual able to work as part of a small friendly team, and under own initiative.
- Knowledge of SAP & Road Runner would be advantageous

**Additional Information**
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.

Our people are the driving force behind our success, which is why we offer a wide range of benefits which include:

- ** 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