Senior Transport Planner

Culinagroup1; Minworth; On-site; GBP 34,000 - 46,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Leave 28 days

Pension scheme

Life Assurance x2

Employee Wellness Programme

Eye Care Vouchers

Reward & Recognition

Retail discounts

Job summary

Great Bear is seeking a Senior Transport Planner at our Minworth site on a full-time permanent basis. The role focuses on managing day-to-day transport operations, ensuring timely deliveries and compliance with drivers' hours regulations.

Key duties include planning resources, coordinating with depots, and maintaining accurate run schedules while driving continuous improvements in service levels. The team emphasises collaboration, development opportunities, and safeguarding safety standards.

Qualifications

• Significant transport experience in FMCG environment.
• Attention to detail and accuracy.
• Planning and organising skills with a high level of numeracy.
• Strong communication skills to deliver accurate information.
• Able to work as part of a team or individually.
• Knowledge of Road Transport Directive and current drivers' hours.

Responsibilities

• Manage and oversee the Transport day operation, ensuring service levels are achieved.
• Optimise resource and adherence of WTD and drivers' hours legislation.
• Plan driver and vehicle resource to meet delivery/collection times, update daily run summaries.
• Communicate with Planning team and other depots.
• Provide 24/7 transport link with Customer Services and Sales Order Processing.
• Monitor retailer arrival/departure times to ensure deliveries within windows.
• Arrange deliveries using nominated contractors for special instructions or re-deliveries.
• Log and report accidents, incidents and near misses.
• Liaise with drivers for meetings and training as required.

Skills

FMCG transport experience

Attention to detail

Strong communication

Numeracy

Planning & organising

Job description

Our Minworth site are now recruiting for a Senior Transport Planner to join their friendly team on a full time permanent basis.

Salary: £40,128 per annum.

Working hours : Monday- Friday, 9am-5pm.

Key Duties of a Senior Transport Planner:

• Managing and overseeing the Transport day operation, ensuring that service levels are achieved and maintained.
• Optimising resource and adherence of WTD & drivers' hours legislation.
• Planning driver and vehicle resource to achieve delivery / collection times, creating and updating daily run summary.
• Effectively communicating with the Planning team and other depots.
• Providing 24/7 communication Transport link with Customer Services and Sales Order Processing.
• Monitoring retailer arrival and departure times, ensuring deliveries are made within the specified windows.
• Finding the best fit solution for customer collections, adhering to collection times.
• Arranging deliveries using nominated contractors for special instruction deliveries, re-deliveries.
• Communicating any potential failures or changes to the original plan.
• Ensuring all accidents, incidents and near misses are logged and reported.
• Liaising and planning drivers in for meetings / courses as required.

• Significant transport experience in FMCG environment.
• Attention to detail/accuracy.
• Planning and organising skills, high level of numeracy.
• Strong communication skills in order to deliver accurate information.
• Effectively prioritise work load in order to meet set deadlines.
• Able to work as part of a team or individually.
• Have knowledge of Road Transport Directive and current drivers' hours.
• Be professional, approachable and helpful to ensure smooth running of the general operation.

As part of our drive to make Great Bear a great place to work, we are proud to be an inclusive and diverse organisation where we are committed to employee development and recognising success for hard working performers.

Our dedicated learning and development programmes are open to every employee to give you the opportunity to shape your own future within logistics and continue to work in an environment where team culture thrives.

Our people are the driving force behind our success, which is why we offer a wide range of benefits which include:

• Annual Leave - 28 days inclusive of the bank holidays.
• Pension scheme - We want colleagues to enjoy a comfortable retirement so we offer a great contribution of 4% employee and 4% employer.
• Life Assurance - x2 your annual salary.
• Wellness - Via our Employee Assistance Programme we offer immediate access to a confidential telephone counselling and legal information service that operates 24 hours a days, 365 days a year.
• Eye Care Vouchers - We can provide you with substantial savings with free eye tests and discounts on prescription glasses.
• Reward & Recognition - We recognise that employees have gone the extra mile via Employee of the Month and Year, special recognition and long service awards.
• Everyday discounts - Via our benefit platform you will have access to over 50 retailer discounts for everyday savings!