Transport Assistant

Gap Personnel; Basingstoke and Deane; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 28,000; Full time

Job summary

Gap Personnel is recruiting a Transport Assistant for SY13, working Monday to Friday, 8.00am to 5.00pm, at a rate of £17.18 per hour. The role supports the Sales & Transport department to ensure timely delivery of products to customers and reports to the Sales Manager.

The main duties include generating daily sales plans, taking orders, updating stock and despatch data, logging invoices, arranging transport with drivers and hauliers, and producing reports in Niche.

Qualifications

• Previous experience in sales or transport.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Problem solving abilities.
• Flexible on hours worked.
• Organised with good timekeeping.
• Excellent attention to detail.

Responsibilities

• Generate and maintain daily sales plans.
• Collate actual weights daily by grower into the sales master sheet.
• Take customer orders
• Update frozen stock sheets
• Log despatch note data
• Print invoices from Niche and check invoices against the sales book
• Check stocks at end of day and advise customers of shortages
• Run reports from Niche
• Arrange transport using own drivers and third-party hauliers for cost-effective deliveries
• Communicate sales and transport issues to relevant teams
• Develop and maintain spreadsheets within the sales and transport department.

Skills

Sales/Transport experience

Verbal & written communication

Problem solving

Time management

Excel & Word

English proficiency

Tools

Excel

Word

Job description

Job Title: Transport Assistant

Location: SY13

Pay Rate: £17.18

Contract: Temp to perm

Days: Monday - Friday

Hours: 8.00am to 5.00pm

Gap Personnel is currently recruiting a Transport Assistant. This role operates within the Sales & Transport department to support the sales team and to ensure the timely delivery of products to the end customer. Reporting directly to the Sales Manager. The main purpose of this role is to support the existing team.

Main Responsibilities

• Generate and maintain daily sales plans.
• Collate actual weights daily by grower into the sales master sheet.
• Take customer orders
• Update frozen stock sheets
• Log despatch note data
• Print invoices from Niche and check invoices off against the sales book
• Check stocks at the end of the day - advise customers of shortages
• Run reports from Niche
• Arrange transport - using both our own drivers and third-party hauliers, using the most cost-effective way to get deliveries to customers.
• Talk to external cold stores, reference booking frozen loads in and out for timely uplift to meet customers' requirements.
• Communicating to the relevant teams all sales and transport issues.
• Develop and maintain other spreadsheets within the sales and transport department.

Knowledge, skills and experience required

Previous experience in sales or transport

Excellent verbal and written communication skills

Problem solving

Flexible on hours worked

• Organised with good timekeeping
• Excellent verbal and written English
• Excellent attention to detail
• Good general understanding of PC applications, including Microsoft Word and Excel

Working Shifts and Hours:

• Monday to Friday, 08:00am - 5:00pm

Hourly Pay Rates

£ 17.18 per hour