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Logistics Planning Project and Improvement

2 weeks ago

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Company Description

DPD UK is a member of Geopost who are a market leader in parcel delivery and e-commerce solutions, providing a broad range of delivery and innovative services for customers worldwide. DPD UK has a turnover of over £2 billion and our aim is to be the most sustainable delivery company in the UK. At DPD UK we also aim to deliver the best service, use the best technology and recruit and retain the best people in the industry.

DPD is a Valuable 500 company and a Disability Confident Employer.

**Job Description**:
Our General Manager of DPD Logistics is looking to recruitment a Logistics Planning Project and Improvement Controller to join their high performing and hard working team.

As Logistics Planning, Project & Improvement Controller you will be working alongside the management team on a wide range of projects to support the smooth running and success of the DPD Logistics operation.

You will be responsible for actively planning and delivering improvement projects across the department functions, with measurable outcomes against the main Key Performance Indicators.

You will help DPD Logistics achieve outstanding service to our customers and also achieve challenging objectives around Efficiency, Productivity, Cost, Quality, Environmental and Health and Safety.

**Key responsibilities**:

- Work with the management team to assess areas for improvement and take action to ensure best practice.
- Effective leadership, management, direction and scheduling of Logistics projects.
- Liaise with project stakeholders to identify and define requirements, scope, and objectives.
- Create and maintain comprehensive project plans, documentation and reports, communicating project status to all stakeholders.
- Investigate and provide insight into future trends and emerging technologies related to our operation and processes.
- Work with the Management team on daily, weekly, period and annual planning.
- To ensure the Logistics team achieve contractual performance measures and obligations.
- Control of cost through planning and review of labour and expenditure.
- The promotion, implementation and maintenance of company and departmental procedures including Security Policy, Green Strategy, IT & Data Protection policies and Health and Safety.

**Qualifications**:
**What we're looking for;**
- A clear ability to identify potential improvements
- Excellent problem solving and time management skills
- The ability to affect and successfully implement change
- High levels of resilience, self-motivation and flexibility
- The ability to monitor performance and analyse data to deliver projects, plan and manage costs and achieve service requirements
- Level of commercial awareness to include understanding of risk v reward
- Proven people management experience
- Be comfortable operating in an environment where working efficiently at pace and under pressure is critical
- Be a strong communicator, verbal and written, with strong presentation skills
- Have a high degree of computer literacy

**Key measures of performance**:

- Successful and on time completion of projects
- Demonstrable performance and cost improvements
- Service success
- Successful audit results
- Employee engagement and retention

Additional Information
**About our benefits**

We recognise that our people are at the heart of our business, without them we wouldn’t be able to deliver our award-winning service to all our customers.
- Holiday trading
- Enhanced maternity and paternity package
- Free life assurance of 4 x salary on joining the pension scheme
- Free onsite parking for all employees
- Health Kiosks visiting every location
- Discounted shopping from 100’s of retailers including up to 5% off your weekly supermarket shop
- Milestone Days off to celebrate with your family and friends
- Free eye tests and support with the cost of glasses

Joining DPD can lead to not just a stable job but also a career. DPD prides itself on recognising and developing talent alongside a desire to promote from within. As a continually growing and evolving organisation, we are proud to offer a great number of development and promotion opportunities.