Logistics Planner

Aptean; Leicester; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive pay

Robust benefits package

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Aptean is seeking a Logistics Planner for our Enderby (Leicester) office to coordinate transport activity in line with customer SOPs while ensuring carrier compliance, performance and cost controls. You will support load planning, data accuracy, and high-quality service delivery across the transport operation.

The role requires experience in logistics planning, strong IT and analytical skills, and the ability to work independently in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Experience in a logistics planning function or similar environment.
• Strong IT, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to prioritise and work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Manage loads from planning through completion, making changes and escalating issues when needed.
• Create plans and bookings for returns, collections and special transport requirements.
• Optimise loads, assign work and liaise with carriers to support efficient capacity use.
• Monitor carrier compliance, service performance, invoicing and non-conformance, escalating recurring issues to carrier management.
• Manage cost adjustments and investigate and agree special transport costs.
• Maintain accurate operational data and resolve data-quality issues.
• Monitor costs and invoice quality, ensuring issues are corrected promptly.
• Generate and manage fleet plans.
• Achieve service-level agreement targets and contract KPIs.
• Produce accurate weekly and monthly operational reports.
• Report volume or activity-profile changes against forecast and escalated findings to the line manager.

Skills

Logistics planning

Analytical thinking

Communication

Independent work

Stakeholder management

Tools

Transport planning software

Job description

Overview

We’re looking for a Logistics Planner for our office in Enderby, UK. The position is fulltime. You’ll join an awesome team to support our growing operations.

About the Role

The Logistics Planner is responsible for planning and coordinating transport activity in line with customer standard operating procedures, while managing carrier compliance, service performance, cost controls and operational reporting. The role supports efficient load planning, accurate data and high-quality service delivery across the transport operation.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage loads from planning through completion, making changes and escalating issues when needed.
• Create plans and bookings for returns, collections and special transport requirements.
• Optimise loads, assign work and liaise with carriers to support efficient capacity use.
• Monitor carrier compliance, service performance, invoicing and non-conformance, escalating recurring issues to carrier management.
• Manage cost adjustments and investigate and agree special transport costs.
• Maintain accurate operational data and resolve data-quality issues.
• Monitor costs and invoice quality, ensuring issues are corrected promptly.
• Generate and manage fleet plans.
• Achieve service-level agreement targets and contract KPIs.
• Produce accurate weekly and monthly operational reports.
• Report volume or activity-profile changes against forecast and escalated findings to the line manager.

About You

• Experience in a logistics planning function or similar environment.
• Strong IT, analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Good communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to prioritise and work independently in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with internal and external stakeholders.

What’s in it for you?

Aptean offers competitive pay and robust benefit plans along with the opportunity to grow your career in a fast-paced, flexible and casual environment, an outstanding opportunity for career development and growth.

About Aptean

At Aptean, our mission is to solve tomorrow’s unique challenges today with unrivaled, purpose-built software and superior customer experiences from people who care. Aptean is a global provider of mission-critical, industry-specific software solutions. Aptean’ s purpose-built ERP and supply chain management solutions help address the unique challenges facing process and discrete manufacturers, distributors and other focused organizations. Aptean’ s compliance solutions are built for companies serving specific markets such as finance, healthcare, biotech and pharmaceuticals, over 10,000 highly specialized organizations in more than 20 industries and 80 countries rely on Aptean to streamline their everyday operations.

“At Aptean, our global and diverse employee base is our greatest asset. It is through embracing and understanding our differences that we are able to harness our individual power to maximize the success of our customers, our employees and our company.” –TVN Reddy

Aptean pledges to promote a company culture where diversity, equity and inclusion are central. We are committed to applying this principle as we interact with our customers, build our teams, cultivate our leaders and shape a company in which any employee can succeed, regardless of race, color, sex, national origin, sexuality and gender identity, religion, disability or age. Celebrating our diverse experiences, opinions and beliefs allows us to embrace what makes us unique and to use this as an asset in bringing innovative solutions to our customer base.

Disclaimer

This position is intended for direct applicants only. No agencies or third-party recruiters, please. Unsolicited agency submissions will not be considered.