Transport Change and Compliance Lead Ftc

We have an exciting opportunity for a **Transport Change and Compliance Lead (12- 17 month FTC) **based at our Argos Sainsburys depot. You will provide strong leadership across the Transport Department with full responsibility and accountability for managing the operation for our customer.

Leading our Management, Driver and Admin team in the delivery of exceptional customer service whilst remaining cost effective, ensuring full legal compliance with a safety-first culture.

**How will you contribute?**
- Managing a large transport operation delivering to customers in line with the agreed service level and customer service metrics.
- Fully accountable for the safe delivery and leadership of the Transport Operation for the site.
- Ensuring full legislative compliance across all areas including driving regulations, whilst clearly operating within health and safety guidelines and operational procedures.
- Support and delivery of the strategic business plan to maximise efficiency and identify and action improvements to the operation.
- Delivering costs within budget, with full root cause analysis in the event of variance.
- Input into and play an active role in the risk register and business planning.
- Managing a large vehicle fleet operating multi temperature composite loads.
- Ensure our vehicle maintenance programme and all defects are identified, correctly reported and rectified.
- Lead an effective trade union relationship and deliver engagement and wellbeing plans for the site.
- Deliver effective communication to ensure that information flows through all levels of the colleagues effectively and regularly to all key customers and colleagues to promote engagement and build good working relationships.
- To create and drive a culture of continuous improvement across the department with the deployment of the relevant support mechanisms and tools.
- Ensuring all policies and procedures are followed that enable Partners to be treated fairly and with respect in line with the Partnership Principles.
- To create a clear succession plan with the identification, coaching, support and development of the entire transport team.
- Ensuring all personnel policies and procedures are followed that enable colleagues to be treated fairly and with respect in line with the Wincanton principles.

**What will you bring?**
- Demonstrates excellent leadership behaviours, with being safety and results orientated focused.
- A confident communicator in a team and one to one environment, whilst leading and developing others skills and capabilities.
- Has strong transport organisational, attention to detail and planning skills.
- Is self-motivated and passionate about customer service.
- Able to create, accept, adapt to and deliver change effectively.
- Is able to make critical time pressured decisions with the assimilation and interpretation of data quickly.
- Trade union experience
- International CPC

**Our Culture & Benefits**

In addition to a **generous salary and Company Car/Allowance, **we really value our people and offer a friendly, safety-first working environment, along with other benefits including company pension scheme, generous holidays, cycle to work scheme, employee benefits include, online discount platform, onsite parking and much more.

Our people are at the core of our business and what makes **Wincanton **great. That’s why we also provide significant opportunities for career development and progression, as well as training enrichment and multi-skilling, in a dynamic working environment.

**Our Commitment**

We are committed to providing equality of opportunity for all employees. We want to create an environment where all colleagues feel safe, supported and valued, whilst feeling they can be their whole selves within our workplaces. We are proud that our colleagues represent us and our successes.

Attracting diverse teams, we believe in creating an inclusive, respectful organisational culture for our colleagues and future talent.