Transport Planner

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**Transport Planner - 12 month Fixed Term Contract**

**Appleby Magna (DE12 8AA)**

**£25,700 plus 30 days holiday, pension, life assurance, employee assistance programme, wellbeing support, and flexible benefits scheme**

**(40 hours per week - Monday - Friday - all shift patterns available)**

**About the Job**

Relationships mean everything to us, and this one is particularly special. You’ll have an important part to play in automotive success that spans nearly 50 years. We don’t just have a way of working, we have The Unipart Way. It allows everyone in our team to pursue their own personal and professional goals to a world class level, through Unipart's ‘From Gate to Great’ training and development program.

We’re a fast paced business, always delivering amazing quality and results for our customers, and this warehouse location is no exception. As a Transport Planner you will co-ordinate and control the inbound and outbound movement of Aftermarket Parts globally to specific markets across all transport modes at the new, custom-built Jaguar Land Rover Global Parts Logistics Centre at Appleby Magna in Leicestershire. You will achieve that through executing the processes and procedures required in an accurate and timely manner to minimise any delay to the customer.

As part of your key responsibilities you’ll:

- Be responsible for the shipping and transportation activities within specific markets globally, covering road, sea and air inbound and/or outbound to Mercia Park
- Manage the process from order shipment from a customer or supplier, through to carrier booking, generation of shipping documentation and compliance in accordance with local and customer requirements/regulations
- In conjunction with the carrier, warehouse operation and transport, ensure the timely and unhindered movement of goods and resolution of exceptions, damage, late or miss-delivery and resolution/ recovery of such situations
- Support inbound or outbound transportation activity, processing shipments and ensuring the expected delivery or collection is completed as planned
- Support import or export customs entries, making sure these are correctly prepared and that evidence of export including all documents are retained in line with current legislation, to support related customs audits or query resolution
- Identify and resolve any breach of export compliance and escalate where appropriate to the Freight Manager
- Explore service improvements of third-party freight providers on behalf of JLR for the legally compliant, timely, inbound and outbound movement of car-related parts in accordance with contractual requirements

**About You**
- Ability to cope with the demands of a fast-moving and ever-changing set of priorities
- Ability to work towards targets and timescales
- Planning and organisational awareness
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with a good attention to detail
- Strong team player that can also work to their own initiative
- Excellent IT skills in Microsoft Office and / or Google Suites
- An understanding of Transport and/or Distribution, along with an understanding of Warehouse Management Systems (WMS)

Our recruitment and selection process has been developed to ensure that it is consistent, fair and provides equality of opportunity - all selection decisions are based solely on technical and behavioural competencies. We do not discriminate on the grounds of race, colour, or nationality, ethnic or national origins, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, marital or civil partnership status, pregnancy or maternity, disability, religion or belief, age or any other current or future protected characteristic as defined in the current Equality Act of England and Wales. As an organisation we also promote an environment which encourages diversity of characteristics and thought, where you feel included, safe and confident to be the best version of yourself and do your best work every day.