Bulk Cement Planning & Service Leader

Tarmac; Buxton; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme

Holiday entitlement

Contributory pension

Employee discounts

Job summary

Tarmac is seeking an experienced Planning & Service Manager for its Bulk Cement operation in Buxton. You will lead a centralised planning and customer service team, balancing customer requirements with fleet utilisation and transport costs, while driving continuous improvement and delivering safe, efficient operations.

You will optimise routes, coach staff, and implement standardised processes across the function, leveraging data to inform decisions and collaborating with commercial and supply

Qualifications

• Experience leading a transport planning or logistics team in a time-critical environment.
• Strong practical understanding of transport planning, routing, scheduling and fleet utilisation.
• Experience using data to drive performance and decision-making.
• Experience managing operational disruption and customer service situations.
• Knowledge of road transport legislation.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop central Planning & Service team to deliver operational and customer outcomes.
• Manage transport planning activity, ensuring effective responses to operational disruption, capacity challenges and changing customer demands.
• Drive customer service performance through proactive, accurate and timely communication.
• Optimise fleet utilisation and supporting effective deployment of third-party capacity where required.
• Developing team capability through coaching, succession planning, skills development and cross-training.
• Embedding standard operating procedures and consistent ways of working across the function.
• Identifying opportunities to simplify, standardise, automate and digitise planning and order-management processes.
• Using operational data and performance metrics to identify trends, drive improvements and deliver business objectives.
• Building strong relationships across operational, commercial and supply chain teams.

Skills

Transport planning

Fleet optimisation

People leadership

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Education

CPC Transport qualification

CILT qualification

Degree-level qualification

Tools

TMS

Process automation

Job description

Tarmac is seeking an experienced Planning & Service Manager for its Bulk Cement operation in Buxton. You will lead a centralised planning and customer service team, balancing customer requirements with fleet utilisation and transport costs, while driving continuous improvement and delivering safe, efficient operations.

You will optimise routes, coach staff, and implement standardised processes across the function, leveraging data to inform decisions and collaborating with commercial and supply