Transport Coordinator

www.findapprenticeship.service.gov.uk - Jobboard; Blackburn; On-site; GBP 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A logistics company in Blackburn is seeking a Transport Coordinator to ensure service excellence for clients. This role involves coordinating domestic and international transport, managing customer requirements, and preparing data. Ideal candidates will excel in customer service and communication. Competitive salary of £31,424.46 per year along with extensive training opportunities and various employee benefits are offered.

Benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays

Health and dental cash plans

Cycle to work scheme

Discounted gym memberships

Online GP access

Qualifications

• Experience working in a challenging customer service environment.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience within a transport operation.
• Customer driven with attention to detail.
• Excellent time management skills.
• Enthusiastic and flexible approach.

Responsibilities

• Coordinating transport moves from start to end.
• Ensuring PODs are requested and returned.
• Understanding specific customer requirements.
• Providing data on weekly transport costs.
• Preparing monthly KPI data.

Skills

Customer service experience

Excellent communication skills

Time management

Attention to detail

Teamwork

Initiative

Job description

We’re looking for a Transport Coordinator to join our team at Wincanton in Blackburn. You will have a critical role in ensuring that we deliver day to day service excellence to our clients.

Successful candidates will be required to obtain and maintain Security Clearance

Why Wincanton?

• Unrivalled salary £31,424.46 per annum

• Monday to Friday – 8.30am to 4.30pm with a later start on a Friday.

• 25 days holiday plus bank holidays with the option to buy more Retail Discounts – supermarket, fashion, tech, days out, food and drink, home, cinema, travel, sports, music and games, books, health and beauty, leisure, Enterprise rentals

• Extensive training opportunities with funded accredited courses

• Friends and Family Apprenticeships – Not only can you learn and develop new skills, your friends and family can enrol on accredited courses too!

• Cycle 2 Work Scheme

• Holiday Trading

• Healthcare Cash plan

• Dental Cash plan

• Share Scheme

• Pension Accident Insurance

• Payroll Giving

• Eye Care Vouchers

• Online GP Access

• Hospital Plan

• Death in Service Benefit

• Retirement Courses

• 50% discount on RAC cover

• Discounted Gym Memberships

• Extended Employee Assistance Programme including free financial and legal advice

Day to Day

• Reporting to the Transport Supervisor.

• To co-ordinate transport moves both domestically and internationally from the start to end process.

• To ensure all PODs for all transport are requested and are returned accordingly.

• An understanding of specific customer requirements.

• Collate and provide data to the Customer with their weekly transport costs.

• Prepare monthly KPI data for Customer period packs.

• Using the online booking and transport management systems.

What will you bring?

• Experience working in a challenging customer service environment.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Experience working within a transport operation, with an ability to work on own initiative.

• Customer driven with an attention to detail are essential for this position

• The individual must have excellent time management skills with a positive team working attitude.

• The individual must have an enthusiastic, committed, flexible and can-do approach.

• Demonstrates Wincanton core values – Excellence, Integrity, Passion, Proactivity, Togetherness and Trust.

Wincanton’s Commitment

Our people are our most important asset and as such we are continuously expanding our capability programs to provide you with opportunities to build and extend your professional, functional, and management skills. Your development through coaching is our priority. Continuous learning takes place through a broad variety of opportunities and types of engagements. Access to the latest technological innovations in the logistics and supply chain industry, as well as Wincanton’s deep knowledge and expertise in our field, constitute a superb platform for your professional development.

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.