Transport Operations Commercial Manager

6 days ago


Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom Strive Supply Chain Full time

Strive are a UK wide Supply Chain & Logistics management recruiter. Please visit us at strive. co. uk for additional roles across engineering, production, warehouse & transport operations.

**Transport Operations Commercial Manager - Multi-drop retail products**

**Milton Keynes**

**£48k + Bens + Car Allowance + Prospects**

Our client is specialist distributor of time sensitive / perishable products related products. This relies on an effective supply chain via receipt via daily sea imports, decant at 3 separate site, quick loading onto multi-drop vans for distribution acrossthe UK. They are now looking for a commercially focussed Transport Manager to run a small fleet of multi-drop vehicles across 3 sites.

**Role summary**:
Root & branch review of the existing transport operation

Analysis of financial performance, budgets & forecasts going forwards

Organise and control the supervision of all transport activities within the 3 depots in order to hit all depot & customer expectation targets / OTIF
Ensure ongoing compliance of the vehicle fleet & driver performance

Staff reviews, training & analysis
Manage the companies legal requirements of monitoring taco graphs
Regularly report on results, production of suite of reports and feedback to drivers and management.
Incident and accident reporting and the timely completion of investigation reports.
Monitor, evaluate and implement a delivery structure to improve customer lead times.
Ensure that the depots operates within the stated company quality assurance procedures.
To effectively route deliveries so as to fully utilise the depot fleet.
Contribute to the reduction in waste

Ensure drivers maintain regular vehicle checks & book and monitor regular vehicle inspections.

**IDEAL CANDIDATE**

Experienced across transport including budgets, driver management/compliance, customer service, KPI’s, fleet compliance & route planning.

KPI driven & therefore strong data & performance analytical skills

Experience of fast-moving operations.

Highly numerate and literate.


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