Traffic Office Manager - Night Shift

Royal Mail; Preston; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 39,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

10% bonus potential

25 days annual leave

Generous pension

Job summary

Royal Mail is seeking a Transport Office Manager for the Preston Mail Centre night shift, leading a frontline team of around 80 drivers (7.5t+). You will ensure plans are delivered, compliance maintained, and operations run smoothly across a parcel-led distribution network.

This permanent full-time role offers a competitive salary (£36,565-£39,353), a 10% bonus potential, 25 days’ leave and a generous pension.

Qualifications

• Evidence on CV of leadership and communication skills.
• Experience leading frontline teams in a transport/distribution setting.
• Proven ability to drive standards, improve processes and customer experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead and inspire a front-line team of ~80 drivers (7.5t+).
• Professionalise distribution and ensure work plans are delivered.
• Maintain compliance with policies, work plans and SOPs.
• Build strong relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including trade unions.

Skills

Leadership

People skills

Resilience

Achievement

Improvement

Customer focus

Job description

Job reference number 345266

Traffic Office Manager - Night Shift

Salary: £36,565 - £39,353 (dependent on experience), 10% bonus potential, 25 days annual leave and generous pension

Full time

Permanent

Preston Mail Centre, Pittman Way, Fulwood, Preston, PR2 9GG

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 PRESTON MAIL CENTRE

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 c80 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:

The shift will cover a 2 week period, see below.

Week one

• Thursday: 18:00 - 07:40
• Friday: 18:00 - 07:40
• Saturday: 18:00 - 07:40

Week two

• Monday: 18:00 - 07:40
• Tuesday: 18:00 - 07:40
• Wednesday: 18:00 - 07:40

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 27th October. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached.

Shortlisting: Week commencing 2nd November

Interviews expected: Mid November

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