Temporary Transport Planner/Adminstrator, Banbury

Berry Recruitment Group; Harwell; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 39,000; Full time

Job summary

Berry Recruitment Group is hiring a Transport Planner (Temp to Permanent) in Banbury. Salary: £35,000 per annum. Hours: Mon-Fri, 8:30am-5:30pm.

The role involves subcontracting, planning orders for UK sites, and daily workload planning for a fleet. You will liaise with customers, sub-contract hauliers, and warehousing sites, while maintaining reports and data.

Qualifications

• Demonstrate transport planning expertise in a busy environment.
• Strong problem solving, analytical, and organisational skills.
• Ability to make decisions under pressure and tight timescales.
• Flexible/adaptive approach, especially at peak periods.
• Good communication at all levels within the business.
• Identify improvements to benefit company and customers.

Responsibilities

• Subcontracting and planning orders across UK facilities.
• Plan daily workload for fleet of vehicles.
• Handle queries by telephone, fax, and email.
• Coordinate with Traffic and Administration teams for performance.
• Maintain and update spreadsheets and databases for reports.
• Support fleet and driver training as needed.
• Complete pre/post de-brief for driver shifts.
• Deliver timely internal and external communications.

Skills

Transport planning

Problem solving

Organisational skills

Communication

Decision making

Adaptability

Tools

SAP

BPCS

Road Runner

Job description

Berry Recruitment are NOW hiring for a committed and experienced Transport Planner to work for a company in Banbury

Role: Transport Planner (Temp to Permanent)

Salary: £35,000 per annum

Location: Banbury

Hours: Monday-Friday, 8:30am-17:30pm

Key Responsibilities of the Transport Planner:

• Subcontracting and planning orders out of multiple warehouse facilities and manufacturing sites across the UK.
• Planning daily workload for a fleet: vehicles based on and off site.
• Dealing with queries and issues by telephone, fax and email from our customers, sub-contract hauliers and warehousing sites.
• Liaising with Traffic and Administration teams to ensure the highest standards of performance are maintained at all times.
• Maintaining, creating and updating spreadsheets and databases for customer reports.
• Reporting problems and dealing with issues and any queries that arise.
• Support the fleet and driver training team as and when required.
• Complete pre and post de-brief for all driver shifts.
• Deliver effective, professional and timely internal and external communications.

About you:

• Be able to demonstrate a high level of transport planning expertise in a busy and demanding environment.
• Have excellent problem solving, analytical and organisational skills.
• Be able to make decisions under pressure, and to a tight timescale.
• Have a flexible and adaptable approach to working in order to meet the requirements of the business, particularly at peak periods during the year.
• Be able to communicate well at all levels within the business.
• Have the ability to identify and suggest improvements to benefit both the Company and our customer.
• Be a highly motivated individual able to work as part of a small, friendly team, and under own initiative.
• Knowledge of SAP, BPCS and Road Runner would be advantageous.

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification we have listed. If your experience looks a little different but you think you can role; value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

We are committed to fair and inclusive recruitment. All applicants will be considered on the basis of their skills, experience, qualifications and ability to perform the role, and no applicant will be treated less favourably because of a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010.