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Transport Planner

2 weeks ago

Normanton, United Kingdom ASTON BARCLAY LIMITED Full time

We are the leading national independent auction group, led by quality people, driving the future of the remarketing industry through leading results, innovation, investment, excellence in technology and exceptional service.

Our mission is to bring new perspectives, energy and more innovative ways of working to extend our value within the automotive industry.

We are looking for a full time **Transport Planner **to join our central planning team at our Wakefield site. You will join a team of 3 planners and will be responsible for planning the routes for our busy network of collections and deliveries across our 6 sites.

Principle Responsibilities:

- Undertake effective planning and coordination of the Group Transport function.
- Undertake effective management of Transport costs.
- Ensure that exceptional levels of customer service are delivered throughout the function.
- Manage contractor relationships.

Duties Include:

- Achieve maximum utilisation of vehicles, drivers and trade plate drivers through efficient planning.
- Plan customer’s vehicle collection or delivery on time and in the most efficient and cost effective way to achieve optimum margin potential whilst complying with Transport Legislation and Health & Safety.
- Maintain control over contractor utilisation and minimise costs of external resources.
- Re-plan vehicle movements when necessary due to delays.
- Complete and resolve all outstanding planning issues or pending concerns.
- Arrange additional resources or alternative options to effectively cover all movements.
- Analyse vehicle optimisation and drivers productivity.
- Network modelling, peak of peak times.
- Ensure that legislation regarding driver hours and tachographs is adhered to at all times.
- Meet and exceed all transport KPIs and objectives.
- Carry out daily reporting/tracking of the days performance and execution of the plan to ensure collections and deliveries are achieved.
- Understand subcontractor’s terms and conditions to ensure mutual productivity.
- Ensure all additional costs are communicated and agreed at the time; minimising the potential for future recovery queries.
- Provide regular reporting of all costs and progress against targets.
- Assist the Transport Manager with subcontractor performance reviews, attending review meetings where necessary and support improvement plans.
- Work closely with Transport Manager to ensure the best and most cost effective resource is used to deliver an exceptional service.
- Consistently work in a way that delivers exceptional customer service, in line with SLA’s.
- Build strong relationships with internal and external customers.
- Take feedback from customers and act upon it, constantly striving for improvements within the function.
- Ensure feedback is learned from and work in a way that supports continuous improvement
- Liaise with subcontractors and site operations teams to execute network plan.
- Support tender processes to identify preferred supplier list.
- Manage supplier relationships and performance against SLAs.
- Manage bulk sub-contractor allocations.
- Select the most cost-effective option in all circumstances.

Skills/Experience:

- Proven experience in transport planning.
- Knowledge of transport compliance.
- Understanding of UK transport routes and connectivity
- Knowledge of transport planning systems such as Paragon is advantageous but not essential.
- Experience in data entry and processing.
- Excellent attention to detail..
- Ability to work in complex, fast paced transport function.
- Excel knowledge.
- Interpersonal and communication skills.
- Experience of working to deadlines with quality output.
- Organisational and prioritisation skills.

40 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

We offer a fantastic range of benefits that reflect the value we place on our employees and help make Aston Barclay Group a great place to work. These include:

- 25 days leave per annum + bank holidays
- The ability to purchase upto an additional 5 days leave per annum
- Enhanced sick/maternity/paternity/adoption policies
- Healthcare Cashback scheme on costs such as Dental, Optical and Physiotherapy
- Access to an online rewards scheme that gives you discounts and money back on everything from fashion, holidays, entertainment, car hire, health and beauty and even weekly shopping from major supermarkets
- Free Employee Assistance Program (also available to family dependants)
- Life assurance cover 2 x salary
- Christmas savings scheme
- Length of service awards
- Refer a friend recruitment incentive scheme
- Early finish on your birthday
- Onsite Gym & Canteen

**Job Type**: Permanent

**Salary**: £30,000.00 per year

**Benefits**:

- Additional leave
- Cycle to work scheme
- Employee discount
- Life insurance
- On-site parking
- Referral programme
- Sick pay
- Store discount

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Work Location: One location