Transport Administrator

Culina; Desborough; Hybrid; GBP 22,000 - 30,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Leave

Pension scheme

Life Assurance

Wellness

Eye Care Vouchers

Reward & Recognition

Everyday discounts

Job summary

Great Bear (Part of the Culina Group) is recruiting a Transport Administrator for our Desborough site on a full-time basis. The role runs 6am–2pm, Monday to Friday, with a salary of £26,400 per year, and focuses on providing essential administrative support and accurate data entry to meet deadlines.

You will manage POD and return processes, book collections and deliveries, maintain paperwork and period-end spreadsheets, and liaise with depots and external contacts.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a similar role.
• Fantastic communication skills.
• Excellent problem solving, analytical and organisational skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight timescales.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft office packages.
• High level of attention to detail.
• Able to manage own time to achieve targets.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the site's success by ensuring POD and Return processes are carried out in accordance with site policy documents.
• Booking in collections for customers and completion of relevant paperwork.
• Booking in deliveries for customers.
• Ensure all paperwork is returned for all customer deliveries despatched from site, and chase outstanding PODs.
• Liaising with staff at other depots and external contacts.
• Photocopying, printing, organising and storing documents and computer based information.
• Managing inbound diary for all customers.
• Controlling period end spreadsheets.
• Compiling lists of outstanding PODs and contacting the hauliers to request.
• Reporting the PODs outstanding each day.

Skills

Proven experience in a similar role

Fantastic communication skills

Analytical and organisational skills

Ability to work under pressure

Attention to detail

Time management

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Great Bear (Part of the Culina Group) provides distribution services to FMCG clients. Customer centric service focus is delivered through a site-level empowered culture.

At Culina we have a winning culture, we believe that our culture is one of the reasons our company continues to thrive A place where you're valued, challenged, and inspired!

Job Description

We have an exciting opportunity for a Transport Administrator to join our team at our Desborough site on a full time permanent basis.

Salary:£26,400 per annum.

Working hours:Monday-Friday, 6am-2pm.

The purpose of aTransport Administrator is to provide administrative support and creation of accurate data, with the ability to work to deadlines and contributing to the overall success of the site.

Key Duties of aTransport Administrator:

• Contribute to the success of the site by ensuring that all POD and Return processes are carried out in accordance with the site policy documents.
• Booking in collections for customers and completion of relevant paperwork.
• Booking in deliveries for customers.
• Ensure all paperwork is returned for all customer deliveries despatched from site, and chase outstanding POD’s.
• Liaising with staff at other depots and external contacts.
• Photocopying, printing, organising and storing documents and computer based information.
• Managing inbound diary for all customers.
• Controlling period end spreadsheets.
• Compiling lists of outstanding POD’s and contacting the hauliers to request.
• Reporting the POD’s outstanding each day.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a similar role.
• Fantastic communication skills.
• Excellent problem solving, analytical and organisational skills.
• Ability to work under pressure and to tight timescales.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft office packages.
• High level of attention to detail.
• Able to manage own time to achieve targets.

Additional Information

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– 28days 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!