Traffic Office Manager - Late Shift

Royal Mail; Altofts; On-site; GBP 36,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Shift allowance

CPC qualification support

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Royal Mail is seeking a Transport Office Manager for the late shift at the Yorkshire Parcel Hub in Wakefield. You will lead a front-line team of drivers (7.5t+), professionalise distribution, and ensure plans and compliance drive efficient parcel movement across the network.

You will collaborate with stakeholders and unions to deliver a first-class customer experience, while developing your leadership and managerial skills with support for future career development.

Qualifications

• Leadership demonstrated with team frontline drivers (7.5t+).
• Strong communication and stakeholder management.
• Proven people management and coaching skills.
• Ability to adapt and improve processes under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire a front-line team of drivers to meet distribution targets.
• Professionalise distribution and ensure work plans are executed and compliant.
• Optimize parcel and mail flow across the UK network.
• Build relationships with stakeholders and union reps to deliver a great service.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Stakeholder Mgmt

People Mgmt

Change Mgmt

Job description

Job reference number 345076

Traffic Office Manager - Late Shift

Salary: £36,353 - £39,353 (dependent on experience), £478.20 Shit Allowance per month, 10% bonus potential, 25 days annual leave and generous pension

Full time

Permanent

Yorkshire Parcel Hub, Wakefield Europort, Normanton, WF6 2XX

This is an exciting time to join Royal Mail as we’re in the process of transforming towards a parcel led business. At the heart of this will be our National Distribution operation who move our parcels across a vast network throughout the UK. As a Transport Office Manager, you’ll facilitate the effective running of our transport office at our Yorkshire Parcel Hub

What does the role involve?

Reporting to the Distribution Manager, as a Transport Office Manager you will lead and inspire a front-line team of drivers of large goods vehicles (7.5tn and above). You’ll professionalise distribution, ensuring operational work plans are achieved and that our pipeline optimises the flow of parcels and mail, while maintaining compliance with business policies, national work plan and Standard Operating Procedures.

You will deliver results and a better service to our customers through your team by demonstrating trust in all colleagues. Using your excellent communication, influencing and stakeholder management skills, you’ll build effective relationships with key stakeholders, both internally and externally. You will achieve this working closely alongside our trade union representatives, by working together and delivering a great service every day, we can provide a first-class customer experience.

What skills and experience are we looking for?

As this is an extremely interesting and varied role, we are looking for candidates who are flexible, can work under pressure and possess excellent leadership and communication skills. As a leader within the business, you must demonstrate evidence on your CV of the following:

• Leadership Focus: Ensures the basics are right, takes a 'one company' approach, creates positive energy, implements strategy, takes account of relevant issues. Uses platforms to recognise superstars, appeals to both the heart and the brain when communicating.
• People Focus: Understands the value of diversity & inclusion, uses delegation, coaching, empowerment and feedback, identifies and developing talent, collaborates, takes time to know and understand others needs and perspectives, ensures a supportive environment where achievements are recognised.
• Resilience Focus: Is approachable, provides re-assurance to others, agile in adapting to new challenges, communicates regularly and informally, deals with ambiguity, is positive and realistic even under pressure.
• Achievement Focus: Ensures 'best day every day' by implementing standards of excellence, asks questions of others, shares learning, provides guidance. Builds confident teams using a coaching style and ensures others are held accountable. Uses resources to ensure delivery. Keeps promises. Is trusted by teams and colleagues.
• Improvement Focus: Implements transformation, reduces costs and ensures value for money, embraces innovative work practices, makes rational and informed decisions, identifies improvements to ways of working across areas of the business, implements new processes and services to meet changing customer needs.
• Customer centric Focus: Implements a customer-first culture, introduces ways to improve the customer experience, puts the customer at the heart of decision making, monitors goals for customer service, promotes investment and change which improves the end to end customer experience.

Shift patterns:

Monday to Thursday, Hours between 13:30 - 23:45

Please note

If you are currently employed by Royal Mail, you must apply via the internal careers site on your application will not be processed accordingly.

Benefits

In return, we offer an excellent salary and benefits package including an opportunity to gain a recognised CPC qualification. This will be an excellent opportunity for you to develop your managerial skills and you will be supported for future career development.

About Us

Trust is the foundation of Royal Mail. We aim to be transparent about the qualities we seek and what a career with us entails, building trust from the start of your journey with us. Your interview is the first step, and we want you to shine. To help you prepare, we’ll provide your interview questions in advance, so you can have your best examples ready. At Royal Mail Group, we value trust and our people.

Royal Mail Group is committed to inclusion and representing the diverse communities we serve. We welcome applications from all individuals. As a proud Gold signatory to the Armed Forces Covenant, we especially encourage applications from the Armed Forces community, including cadet instructors and spouses/partners.

We are committed to ensuring an inclusive recruitment process. If you require any adjustments to support you during the hiring process, please discuss these with your recruiter when contacted.

For more information on Royal Mail Group and our values please click here: https://www.internationaldistributionsservices.com/en/about-us/

Closing Date: Tuesday 10th November. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

Shortlisting: Thursday 12th November

Interviews expected: Week Commencing 16th November