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Transport General Manager

4 months ago

Kettering, United Kingdom Wincanton Full time

Join us as our Transport General Manager, adding value and shaping our future. 

You'll lead our operation and colleagues within our 8 site locations, that covers across UK and NI (predominately being based in Kettering). There’s an abundance of opportunity for you to impact, with ownership and accountability for a £45m+ transport budget, delivering across our 190+ fashion retail stores, this is a varied leadership opportunity that involves a combined operation of direct store delivery, trunking to outbases, cross docking services and final mile store delivery. 

You’ll be leading our customer relationship, through strategic partnering and leading the operational actively through your operational management team, ensuring we offer best-in-class service through safety, commercial, profit, retention and contractual objectives. 

Key Accountabilities: 

Resource management and control, including fleet build & renewal strategy, people recruitment, development, engagement & retention to delivery customer volume within agreed KPIs and open budgets. Safety, legal and policy compliance including fleet audit compliance, Ops Ex standards compliance and delivery of a safe operation through the achievement of H&S standards and KPIs. Deliver operational solution to delight the customer within agreed KPIs, including yard management across both sites in the Midlands campus, trunking from Midlands campus to multiple outbases across the UK & NI. Set strategy for the contract to delivery objectives and continuous improvement for our customer and Wincanton, communicating and cascade the strategic road map, through colleague engagement and empowerment for meaningful, purposeful work. Own the closed book procurement and management within SLA of subcontract hauliers, for trunking to Ireland, the operation of an Irish Outbase and final mile store delivery in Ireland with agreed budget and service KPIs. Represent the Contract at regional/national conference and collaboration opportunities to drive synergy and innovation to add value.

What will you bring to our team?

Strong seasoned transport GM experience , with large open book budget responsibility and leading all aspect of the contract and operation, with proven delivery and innovative performance/operational excellence.  Knowledge of customer lifecycle with start ups and maturing the operation, including knowledge of support services (3PL). Exemplary customer relationship management skills with flexibility in style, approach and engagement with numerous senior customer partners. Excellent commercial acumen, with dynamic understanding of ‘open/closed book’ contracts.  Succeeds in building effective stakeholder and colleague relationships with the ability to influence management team’s thinking to deliver high performance through a culture of inclusivity, accountability and ownership.

Note: Role based in Northamptonshire with travel to outbases across UK and NI.

What do we offer?
 

Our Culture & Benefits 

In addition to a  generous salary, company car/allowance , we really value our people and offer a friendly, safety-first working environment, along with other benefits including company car, company pension scheme, generous holidays, cycle to work scheme, employee benefits include, online discount platform, 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.
 

Be a part of our values; We’re Thoughtful, We’re Aiming High and We’re Prepared.
 

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.