Logistics Graduate: Final Mile Planning & Improvement

Buy It Direct; Kirkheaton; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Healthcare cash plan

Free parking

Birthday off after a year

Holiday purchase scheme

Staff discount scheme

Autonomy to make a difference

Job summary

Buy It Direct is offering a great graduate opportunity within the core Logistics and Final Mile functions. You will rotate across planning, reverse logistics, continual improvement and invoicing, gaining hands-on experience that impacts customers and costs.

You will build commercial understanding, analytical capability and operational judgement, with strong support for learning. A fantastic role for an ambitious graduate looking to develop in their career.

Qualifications

• Naturally curious and analytical
• Confident using Excel, including pivot tables, lookups, charts, basic modelling and data cleansing
• Tenacious and accountable
• Energetic and resilient, with the willingness to handle urgent, repetitive or less visible tasks
• Clear and credible communicator who can adapt their style for operational colleagues, external partners and managers
• Good commercial and customer judgement, recognising the trade-offs between service, cost, speed, quality and customer experience
• Accurate and methodical when checking data, costs and processes
• Ambitious and keen to develop, actively seeking feedback and taking on greater responsibility as capability grows
• Practical and grounded, with a willingness to spend time close to the operation before deciding what should change
• A collaborative approach and the confidence to influence people positively without relying on formal authority
• Comfortable managing several priorities, making sensible decisions and asking for help when the situation requires it
• Able to learn operational systems such as WMS, TMS, ERP and BI tools
• A practical knowledge of AI and a curious to learn how to integrate this into your work to leverage greater efficiencies

Responsibilities

• Rotate through core Logistics and Final Mile functions, developing a rounded understanding of the end-to-end delivery and returns journey
• Work alongside operational teams, carriers and support functions to understand how orders move from despatch through to delivery, collection, return or resolution
• Use data to investigate service, cost and process issues, identify the underlying cause and recommend practical next steps
• Support day-to-day planning and coordination activity, helping the team respond when demand, capacity or operational priorities change
• Assist with reverse-logistics activity, including returns, collections, damages, losses, stock recovery and the resolution of ageing exceptions
• Support carrier and supplier invoice checks by validating charges, investigating exceptions and helping ensure costs are complete and accurate
• Take part in continual-improvement projects from initial problem definition through analysis, testing, implementation and review
• Create and maintain clear reports, trackers, process maps and action logs that help teams make decisions and follow commitments through
• Spend time in the warehouse and with delivery operations to understand processes first-hand and test whether proposed solutions will work in practice
• Build productive relationships with colleagues across Logistics, Warehousing, Customer Services, Finance, Commercial and Technology
• Prepare concise updates and presentations that explain findings, risks, recommendations and results to both operational and management audiences
• Learn the systems used across the department and become confident working with operational data from different sources
• Take responsibility for defined pieces of work, manage deadlines and escalate early when information, support or decisions are needed
• Contribute to peak planning, operational reviews and other cross-functional priorities across the Logistics and Final Mile area
• Progressively take ownership of more complex work as your knowledge and confidence develop, building towards responsibility for a key process, project or performance area

Skills

Curious & analytical

Excel data skills

Tenacious & accountable

Resilient & proactive

Clear communicator

Commercial judgement

Data accuracy

Ambitious & growth-minded

Collaborative

Priority management

Systems literacy (WMS/TMS/ERP/BI)

AI curiosity

Tools

WMS

TMS

ERP

BI tools

Job description

Buy It Direct is offering a great graduate opportunity within the core Logistics and Final Mile functions. You will rotate across planning, reverse logistics, continual improvement and invoicing, gaining hands-on experience that impacts customers and costs.

You will build commercial understanding, analytical capability and operational judgement, with strong support for learning. A fantastic role for an ambitious graduate looking to develop in their career.